Lessons learned and plans for DECENT

Last week was amazing. We participated on Steemfest in Lisboa, met few amazing guys and had lot of fun.
Beside the good part, we also collected lot of feedback on DECENT, and plan to adapt accordingly. The main focus is to make it as attractive to application developers as possible. DECENT was designed with security in mind, what somehow results in complicated use cases and flows - lot of steps that are not very clear just to process the upload, with numerous API calls, different APIs for DECENT daemon and for IPFS daemon, etc. My vision is to have the complexity hidden in the API. To have one simple call to upload the file(s), one transaction to propagate the content in the network, one call with callback for buying, all under one API.
Since the API is based on graphene, that has never been designed to work with files and stream, significant changes are required, and naturally, it will take some time, but this is the ultimate goal. We already have IPFS daemon build in the DECENT daemon binary, and are designing the API flows. I'm quite excited about it.
In parallel, the javascript library is being developed to provide nice and clean interface for front-end developers. The first version is already available here: https://github.com/DECENTfoundation/decent-js

Of course, DECENT Foundation provided front-end, DECENT GO, is under heavy reorganization as well, but more about it next time.