Keep in mind that SteemIt is a frontend website for interacting with Steem. If you think SteemIt is not delivering a valuable product or needs to be improved, it is very well advised to start your own frontend website for interacting with the blockchain.
Or, the code for Steem and SteemIt, as well as the website code, are open source and available at https://github.com/steemit for anyone to make issues or feature requests.
We want the backend (Steem) to be functional moreso than a frontend website. I think in order to get the best of both worlds, we shouldn't rely on the Steem devs to make the best frontend website possible.
As for the calculations, again that is all available from public data either in the Whitepaper, the source code, or on the blockchain. If you have ideas for clever ways to display this to users, even things such as a sketch or drawing of a website, then please do share. I am always looking for ideas to program, but people first have to speak up and explain what needs to be done.
As for your comment about Reddit or another competitor "just adding a blockchain voting system" that would be interesting to see. And competition is not a bad thing.
Steemit is an end user facing service and people are being invited to invest in it by putting steem in and converting to steem power. As such it should have an excellent front end and the terms on which people are being asked to invest should be accurate, transparent and easy to find.
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I think we have an opinion here, that is from the heart, unadulterated and pretty much what IT IS...
People are invited to invest in the actual product and technology, Steem and Steemd. Not SteemIt which is really a proof of concept frontend implementation as I said.
The Steem Dev team have already said before that they expect the community to make the best frontend for Steemd (the actual tech that provides a product that consumers utilize)
In my opinion, investments to SteemIt.inc are more wisely used on the development of Steemd, not the website that they don't even really have intentions on maintaining.
I do agree that the white paper should be updated to match current values and the state of the network.
Still, the SteemIt website is in a public repo. Go make feature suggestions because your ideas aren't bad. But expecting a small under resourced team to have the time and desire to implement the little things before the community really asks for them is silly.
Yeah, yeah, don't make excuses... please.
"no intention of maintaining", so please elaborate.. what is possible to say, further on this subject?
So many tools available outside of steemit; I would think it's very possible to purchase and integrate these features.
Not sure what you are quoting here but I am not making excuses for anyone. There are several great tools like you mention, but acquiring a company to implement their tech is far different than building your own team to spend time developing it from scratch.
I fully agree that SteemIt should be funding developers and acquiring projects to pull in house.
I do not agree that SteemIt should be expected to be the end all be all for the frontend offerings. That gives one company way too much power over a decentralized system. As of right now, most people think Steem and SteemIt are one and the same.