Thank you for this post, Asher. This almost perfectly sums up my own experience with the AMA-that-wasn't and my feelings after the community chat.
The last time I saw this much engagement and energy from the Steem community was at SF3 in Krakow. Since then, conditions with the platform went into decline and, while I didn't leave, I withdrew to focus on building my own real-world project that might or might not eventually include the Steem blockchain. This development makes me very glad that my team didn't invest more in a front end specific to Steem, but also gives me a tiny glimmer of hope that something good may come from this after all, even if it's a rallying force to keep the spirit of Steem alive in the face of what could be our greatest adversity ever...or our greatest leg up to mainstream adoption. Time will tell.
Thanks for the kind comment @rhondak :)
I agree with you, engagement is up and the spirit of the community has been revived. Who knows what will happen in the future but I think we have to be positive to change.
Good luck with your real-world project, I hope Steem can play a part in that going forward.
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Well, so far so good with the project. We have one book bearing the "Steemhouse" brand that's competing full on with other books in its genre in the mainstream, with some celebrity endorsement and a fully positive review from Kirkus, including a three-month run in their trade publication. We've just launched the companion litmag, and while only one issue is live for now, we've had some good response to it as well. We'll see what the future holds for marrying these concepts with blockchain technology.
I must admit to not hearing much about Steemhouse in the past year - it rings a bell though.
This sounds very promising, well done!
We gave a presentation at SF3 about it. Then we got caught up in some disingenuous offers by a series of developers who made noise about building us a front end and then never delivered. We even lost money when we decided to just pay someone outright rather than partner. This left a really bad taste in our mouths about the integrity of any blockchain project. So we focused inward on the business sans Steem and made a lot more progress that way. We can always revisit the idea of a front end later, but right now it doesn't look likely as it's difficult to see any value in that for us.
Right, well with that knowledge I say fair enough - happy you took the unknowns out of the plan and got things rolling.
At least you are aware of the space and can choose to use it if it benefits.
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