Looking forward to hearing your take on whatever plan you have to restructure and move forward not only when it comes to smooth operation and development but also growth.
The community is asking itself what state Steemit Inc is in now, how stable are its finances (ie. was the layoff a decision that was made in conjunction with bankruptcy avoidance), and which positions are no longer filled. I can probably guess a few from knowing them but confirmation would be appreciated. The financial and operational health of Steemit Inc is currently vital to the financial and operational health of the Steem ecosystem. I wouldn't want to see investors lost due to uncertainty.
Its been mentioned already by others here but a skills/functions matrix of remaining Steemit Inc capabilities would be appreciated. You know by now how many of us and whom were undertaking marketing-focused initiatives. That's just one observable gap we tried to fill. With the fact that SMTs must be adequately promoted outside the Steem ecosystem to have a chance in hell a reality, the more information we have now the better.
I think you probably see some of us as toxic scum. Qualified that with "I think" since I know you don't like it when I state assumptions. Those same people are investors of money, time, expertise, and development. This feedback isn't malicious. We still have faith in the vision and opportunity or we would've bounced long ago. We'll get shit done, just need to all get on the same page first.
Personally, I would be totally fine if Steemit, Inc. managed to cranked out SMTs and immediately moved on to working on the next hardfork. Let the people who issue the token market their own token.
That could work if the documentation is there. Potential SMT implementors aren't going to read code, they want marketing materials. Especially if they're external to the current steem ecosystem, which most are. The majority of questions I field about SMTs come from people whose knowledge about steem is virtually nonexistent. But they've got teams, projects and will invest and bridge if sold on SMTs.
I see what you mean. But the community can document SMTs. I know this because that used to be my day job, and I have some confidence that I can contribute. We wouldn't want early SMT adopters to have to reverse-engineer the thing if they don't have to.
For example, this is how I would usually go about doing documentation when I worked at Steemit, Inc. But instead of using internal tools, I'm documenting my documentation, so to speak:
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@inertia/steemit-dev-portal-document-transaction-polling-api
I believe I can do basically the same thing for SMT documentation.