Hey, @themarkymark.
Thanks for doing this. I agree with you that there needs to be more public full nodes, and hopefully with the changes already made and supposedly still to come, that will become more and more a possibility. You've been at the forefront of explaining what it really takes to run a full node, and I appreciate that, too.
Now, I'm going to show my ignorance. :) When you say give the node a try, how does one do that? I mean, can I somehow set steemit, or busy, or steempeak to use your node? I've wondered about that in the past, but never found a way to choose a node.
The only place I've seen that option available is on steemworld.
You can set it in SteemWorld but Full Nodes are mostly geared to developers of dApps.