See my blog on the testnet here:
https://condenser.steem.vc/@leprechaun
Get a free account without verification here:
https://test.steem.vc/
I want to give the users of my application a good experience. So, I wouldn't just plug this into a website under production. As you wrote, this node is for testing. So that's the use case of this RPC node.
Something like that lends itself better to use a testnet. I can create accounts at will on testnet, and send fake Steem dollars and fake Steem. I run a test webserver that is only for uses @almost-digital's blockchain and then I do a bunch of testing with that one before I upgrade the code on the production site.
Anyway, it is good thing to have this RPC node up now. So things do not break in production! Right now, python-steem is not appbase ready.
That’s pretty awesome! You seem to be pretty involved with development. What other projects are you working on? Are you in the SteemDevs discord group?
The only one I spend much time on is steemfiles.com. The site is for buying and selling digital goods (files). These could be e-books, music, videos, or software. The products are there but the demand is poor. Perhaps users who use Steemit are not the demographic that would normally pay for digital goods, as they grew-up always having bittorrent and getting all digital goods for free. Except for crypto-currencies of course.
So, I think I should try to allow prospective vendors still host their files for free but I want to link how much they vote for Steemfiles posts with how much they can upload. So, if someone up-votes Steemfiles a-lot, they get more capacity to host their e-books, or whatever.
I am unable to install Discord because of OS compatibility issues. The requirement is that I use an OS that uses 8-byte wide pointers at least in the Linux case, and I am a Linux user. Since the computer I have doesn't have 4GB of RAM it is a waste of memory to give every pointer 8-bytes. There is steemit.chat. I signed up to steemit.chat with my tablet, that's why I am 'lepechaun' instead of 'leprechaun' over there.
Hmm, does the browser version of discord work? I just login on my home PC using Chrome.
What? A browser version? Ok. I guess I'll be joining that group promptly. Thanks for the tip!