Open Letter from APPICS to the Community

in #appics5 years ago (edited)

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Dear Community,

The last few weeks have been very turbulent for all users in this ecosystem.
Many people have asked us where we stand and what’s next for APPICS, and we've already talked about the situation in our own groups and community channels but today we’d like to make a statement to the community here on steemit as well, to transparently address how these changes will affect APPICS.

Background

If you’ve been on Steemit since the early days, you know the APPICS team has been with Steemit since summer 2016 and APPICS was planned to be the first Smart-Media-Token right after the initial announcement.
Our original plan was to focus mainly on our strength - which is to bring a mainstream audience to the crypto space through influencer marketing and achieve mass adoption.
But to achieve mass adoption, we needed instant accounts - and to create those, we needed more Resource Credits / Steem power delegation, which we never received.
We have an extensive network in the mainstream entertainment industry, and have exciting campaigns with celebrities and large brands planned.
However, we haven’t activated most of these campaigns and partnerships yet, because if one of these influencers should make a post about APPICS now, we are not able to guarantee instant accounts to all of their followers that would like to join APPICS .

So, the “partnership” with Steemit Inc. didn’t work out, there were several issues and promises that weren’t kept.
And yet, we remained optimistic and showed our support continuously for the last 4 years.

We took matters into our own hands and instead of waiting for SMTs to be released, we re-organised our funds and built a dual-blockchain-solution independently with help from the steem-engine team.

We understand that there is a lot of uncertainty in the community at the moment and changes that need to be addressed.

We will continue to observe the situation with STEEM and Hive, however as of right now, nothing changes for Appics and its users.

We simply utilize the Steem blockchain as a decentralized database to store data and manage user accounts and keys, which means our operations can continue as usual.

However, we don’t want to take any sides in this conflict.

We acknowledge that part of our community has left for hive and part of our community has stayed on STEEM, and appreciate both.
We simply try to make the best decisions for Appics, to be able to grow and introduce the masses.

What happens to Steem-Engine and its tokens ?

The steem-engine team has already announced that they will keep steem-engine running, but not work on any new updates there and solely focus on developing Hive-engine for the future.

This is very unfortunate for all dApps that are built on a steem-engine token.

Due to these news, we are now forced to move and expand our smart contract, to continuously have a functioning reward system, instant accounts etc.
We are aware that this situation is difficult for many dApps and there is a lot of uncertainty in regards to “what’s next”. Since we have our own operational plan at APPICS, we had to make a decision and create a solution.

So right now we’re in the process of collecting Blockchain features to implement in our own smart contract.

If you have ideas for features you’d like to see on APPICS in the future, now is the time to be apart of the process.

Comment your ideas for future features below and we might consider them!

Apart from that, we would also like to implement a cross-posting solution in the future. This will enable users to cross-post their APPICS posts on other platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Hive etc.
This is part of our long-term plan but we have other features on our development roadmap that have priority for now.

Appics is neutral and will always remain this way.

We wish all projects success and believe a blockchain should be decentralized and united. We will always be in favor of unity and harmony throughout the community. We will bring blockchain to the masses and to achieve that we must all work together for the same cause and focus on a common goal.

Especially right now, with everything going on in the world, there is serious need for alternative systems and integration of blockchain.
With the global recession, and governments printing endless amounts of money, blockchain companies are being tested.

This current situation is exactly what blockchains were created for!

There is no competition in the space and we welcome dApps to join forces. The user experience should be the priority and it's great if Appics users can also use their account on Splinterlands, dTube, and other dApps. Together we will grow the ecosystem a lot faster.

We want what's best for Appics and our community.

Let's keep our focus on enhancing the user experience and raise awareness for blockchain. The majority of people in the world are still not aware of the new era and benefits of blockchain and the opportunities ahead, like being able to earn cryptocurrency for participating in a social network. There is a lot of work to do and great times to come, that we can choose to create and accelerate with the right kind of focus.

Don’t forget to comment below which features you would like to see on our new APPICS smart contract for the future!

Much love, TEAM APPICS




Are you an APPICS tester yet?

If not, please visit ios.appics.com if you're an iOS user, and for android users softlaunch.appics.com to download the APPICS app. Or visit account.appics.com to create an instant APPICS account including SP and APX power!
Once you have downloaded APPICS, you can login directly with your steem account and private active key!




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Hello everyone!

I have seen APPICS before and they were already regarded as the Instagram of Blockchain. I have also been a part of it where I used to share my photos too.

At the moment I am also struggling with the need to make my resource credits high as I also help delegate some steem power that I lend to my friends who I happen to invite here. I will get drained if ever those 100 referrals I recently onboarded to appics will ask for a steemit account. I will try my best to help all of them start their journey here with us.

I admire the tenacity of Team Appics with their hope to be helped by Steemit Inc until now after the HF22. We will be more than happy to always be updated and deliver all news to everyone in our Philippines Community.

I am glad that my fellow steemians are receptive to what appics is about to offer everyone instead of continuing it on HIVE.

BAU (Business As Usual) for everyone even though most are affected with the lockdown as per country guidelines.

Rest assured that you have our support with the upcoming activities set by this awesome platform.

I personally thank the APPICS leaders to have given me such recognition to push this call to re-group them. I have gathered all the leaders of certain mini-comunities that were already pre-existing on steemit and making it work this time the best that we can.

We will support the token as well and encourage the HODL and establish and participate with the trading volume.

Thanks everyone and will cascade this news to our team.

Thank you so much for your support and efforts for the community dear @fycee, we are happy to have you on board as part of our Ambassador team!

I am very happy to read the position of Appics, I have a lot of appreciation for the project and I consider that Appics is an App for the mass adoption of the blockchain.

I'm glad that new developments are being made.

Thank you Appics!

I find APPICS one of the most well developped and smart dApp out there. UI is great and marketing too.
The only obstacle I see right now is the situation with Steem and SMT, I'm pretty shure you'll find the best solution to make it a large adoption app, especially to find the simplest way to get in.... Best regards!

until Justin Sun freezes your accounts, or your users accounts. there is no neutral in this, it's your responsibility to make sure your users stake are secure.

Steem is the best compromise APPICS can do right now. Steem deleted some coins, but Hive wiped 10 times more accounts and funds.

The only good alternative for APPICS would be to run their own blockchain with their own community witnesses. Something like that



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hey ash, wazzuuuupppppp

I'm in favor of sustaining your growth with a 100k SP delegation as an independent user and investor as I believe you could very well become a top used dApp in the whole blockchain space in the near future.

I also appreciate your neutral position and I'm glad to hear you're planning a cross-platform integration in the future.

I'm interested in getting as much APX tokens as I can while helping you improve the onboarding process with RCs burns.

I applied for all of this with a mail request a couple weeks ago, but never received a response.

Hey @fedesox! Thank you for your kind feedback and for your proposal to support us.
I wasn't able to find your email. Could you please re-send it to [email protected] or contact our admins on telegram: https://t.me/appics_official

Ok, done 😀💪

way too less

Thanks for the News. It was needed. And Yes! Great future ahead for APPICS 💪🔥.

It would be really cool if you would do you own hf and be independent like hive or steemit. That would be the best. Resteemed

It would be an option and then MultiPost back into the chains. I think that the SE/HE Team would create pegged options and Converters for you to get access to open trade again pretty fast. But the costs would also be a big thing. You would need dozens of 100GB RAM Servers across the globe to run it. If there would be crowdfunding, I'd be in with 100-200bucks - No Questions asked.



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True but than appics would be really independent. Everybody has to learn from the past, there is no guarantee that this won't happen again right? A good investment and everything goes well....

Would be the best and as I stated, I'd buy into a real crowdfunding (no ICO B$) anytime of the day.

Hello Appics,
Thanks for this. Users really needed this; I mean feeding them with information concerning the project plans. Feeding them with hope. It keeps us alive!

As regards being part of the development process. I'd love that. Permit me to first say that I love the cross platform posting idea already.

Here are some ideas I'd like to suggest.

  1. Separation of the like button from the upvote button. Some users just really want to like a post and not reward it. We can tell by how some users vote for post with just 1% of their power. Also, possibly the introduction of a downvote and dislike button. Emphasis on "and".
  2. The reXAP feature. Lol. I mean a feature like the Twitter retweet that allows users share the post of others to their own followers. This feature should allow users to also be able to quote the post too - as in say something with the post as reference somewhat, just like on twitter. As regards this, quoting, the post of another user, the smart contract should be designed to reward both the author whose post was quoted and the user who quotes the content.
  3. Stories and Livestream: Live tipping is not a bad idea for livestreaming. The stories aspect can just follow the normal procedures as a regular post would. By Live tipping, I mean users directly rewarding an author of a Livestream content from their liquid APX in real-time. That'd be awesome.
  4. Are we talking about the Appics Chat yet? Cuz if we are there are more ideas😏😅



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Especially right now, with everything going on in the world, there is serious need for alternative systems and integration of blockchain.

I've always felt this way about steem



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The feature which I would like is a thumbnail view of ‘my followers’, along with the thumbnail view of New/Hot/Trending.