I'm fully against Justin now. It's true the communities you see on Steemit were on beta.steemit for months prior to his acquisition. He simply forced the team to push it live ASAP for the PR. Admittedly, the team's approach may have been more cautious than it should have been, but Sun took full credit for making communities happen and that was BS. The real man behind communities was @roadscape, who has now resigned along with the majority of the Steemit development team. There are clearly features missing that were discussed and were most likely in the works in anticipation of a planned live launch, but I don't think we'll see upgrades anytime soon, due to the new owners showing no signs of understanding/competency with the Steem structure & code. Justin's team is already promising to deliver immediate hard forks that would all but break the chain. I don't think they understand the 7 day payout calculation window when they plan on making Steem able to be powered down in 3 days or less.🙄 Sure, I guess we could ignore the exploit of being able to vote three times with the same stake by shuffling between accounts... but my guess is major glitches will ensue that will cause the blockchain to freeze, and Tron won’t have the know how to fix it.
In short, all the seeming progress Justin has made occurred before he arrived, and the only progress that has occurred since is the mass resignations of all the people who made that progress.
Sorry for the Steem politics rant! Glad the community is growing well regardless.
NP, I enjoy a good rant!
@ned is the one who sold this, so anyone pissed off has him to blame, and
Anyone who left or got fired has ned to blame, not Justin. Justin bought something and can do whatever he wants with it.
The bottom line here for content providers is this- jack shit was getting done for the almost THREE FUCKING YEARS I've been here. Very simple tweeks that have made this thing much more user friendly got implemented within two weeks of the new ownership. if these tweeks were in the making...well then they should have fucking implemented them, shouldn't they have? CLEARLY the tweeks were ready because CLEARLY they are working. So if Justin wants to take credit...by the literal meaning of the word he IS in fact responsible.
Notifications...THREE FUCKING YEARS I WAITED FOR THAT. The search engine options to not be a bunch of redundant terms ( trending, hot, ect) and the search engine to be functional for a normal human.. THREE FUCKING YEARS I WAITED
I can go to the search page and simply click "my friends" ....IT TOOK THREE FUCKING YEARS FOR THAT SIMPLE TWEEK? no actually it took two weeks, under Justin.
They were jerking off and dicking around with every fucking thing EXCEPT the things that would help content makers.
THIS platform and by proxy all these developers gave creators the finger over and over and over and over....they treated us like we did not matter/where irrelevant and showed that with every hardfork and every "improvement" which actually made things worse for us.
there is a new guy in charge, and for my purposes things are better, and for all the dumb assholes still out there confused as to how steem/steemit can grow...it is about the content dumbass. and therefor the content makers...and therefor making things easier for them/us makes things better for steemit
so fuck @ned I'm glad he is gone.