SteemWorld.org ever received any significant funding because large stakeholders increased the required support in SPS as soon as it qualified. I think it revealed the corrupt nature of whale/witness/developer actors only supporting their friend's pet projects, some of them questionable, and running off a legitimately good programmer who donated a lot of time to the chain by not funding a great tool.
I'm not sure of the full story. He isn't currently asking the community for support from what I've noticed. Maybe he is taking a break or workimg on something else.
In anycase, a lot of end users like it and the more technically inclined know this. It's a beautiful website!
I try to send him a bit of STEEM each week or two.
That's a good idea, I kinda regret not setting him beneficiary, I'll send him a couple SBD now to cheer him up!
I agree and supported his SPS proposal but I thought it was terrible how the community treated him.
https://steempeak.com/steemworld/@steemchiller/steemworld-support-tomorrow-on-or-off
https://steempeak.com/steemworld/@z8teyb289qav9z/q0zrai
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