DLive | Transparency Report #1 - April 19, 2018
Welcome to the very first @DLive Transparency Report.
DLive is constantly listening to the feedback of the Community, whether it's positive or negative. Our teams are always looking for ways to improve your overall experience as a user and bring new users to our platform.
The purpose of this report is to inform, not only the DLive Community but the Steemit Community as well.
We have never done a formal introduction on our Teams and its Members. We wanted to start off with the organizational structure in our first report. The DLive Team is split into 2 Business Units.
DLive Executive Team
The DLive Executive Team is lead by, none other than our Founder, Kent (@wa7). This team also includes Cole (@nassarme) and Olivia (@killerannie). The Executive Team overlooks all Products, Development, Research and Public Relations.
Development Team
Development is lead by @nassarme.
The primary focus of this team is to develop The Next Generation of Live Streaming, and Video Community on the Steem Blockchain. We strive to offer the best experience as a content creator and a viewer. This platform was built for the community.
The team has been working around the clock to improve your overall experience as a user. Some of the features that are currently being worked on are:
- Off-Chain Live Chat Room.
- DLive Streaming Alert Functionality.
- "Gifting" Features.
- "Make Requests to the Broadcaster" Features.
- User Interface Upgrade.
DLive Operation Team
All Operations are overseen and lead by @redjepi (Admin) and @jimmylin but this Business Unit is broken up into 4 smaller teams.
Content Management Team
The Content Management Team is lead by @jimmylin, and consists of 3 members, @imjohnnymills, @cheaky, and @r3mr3m.
The primary focus of this team is to manually curate live streams and videos. The Content Management Team has committed to deliver a minimum of 120 upvotes per day.
In the month of March, the team delivered over 5500 upvotes to over 1000 unique users. For the month of April, even with the minor set back of not being able to vote for 5 days, the team has delivered over 3200 upvotes to over 950 unique users.
The Content Management Team is in the process of launching a community outreach program. The goal of this program is to help our users improve the quality of their live streams or videos and drive engagement. The team is working diligently to work out the details of this program and hope to launch it in the near future.
Community Operation Team
The Community Team lead is by @kassixo, and consists of 3 members, @clasicktv, @tidos, and @tidylive.
The primary focus of this team is to provide support to all the users of our platform. The quickest way to receive support would be through our Discord server, which is monitored 24/7. The team listens to all of the feedback provided and passes this information to the appropriate teams.
The Community Team is also behind the Help Center. Since the launch of the Help Center, we have responded to and closed over 90 tickets, while helping countless users on Discord. If you have not visited the Help Center, it is filled with informative articles and guides. The focus in these up-coming months is to publish new articles and add additional features to this site.
Marketing Team
The Marketing Team is lead by @seacactus, and consists of 2 members, @cheech-oz, and @mro.
The primary focus of this team is to make DLive's services as approachable as possible, while increasing the footprint of DLive. This is currently being done through Steemit, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and soon Reddit.
The Marketing Team is also responsible for the weekly Campaigns and developing the Media Kit for new and existing users to help brand their content correctly.
Business Development Team
The Business Development Team is lead by @travelgirl, consists of 2 members, @mehdibca, and @desolator.
The primary focus of this team is attracting users, not only from the Steem blockchain, but also from the outside, to utilize our live streaming and video platform.
A hot topic as of late, is the rewarding of our team members. We have read all the feedback in regards to this topic and have made changes to our team's rewards structure. The goal of our management team, is to keep the team rewards to 10% of total rewards through upvotes. DLive does not have a beneficiary reward. We truly feel this method benefits the users of our platform more than adding a beneficiary reward (10% - 25% of all rewards). As of April 19, 2018, have lowered the overall percentage reward for each team member. We will be watching this topic closely and post updates as needed.
Keep in mind that all development costs are financed by @wa7 directly.
We have seen Community Initiatives start up, which we think are fantastic, but we wanted to advise everyone that there are only 5 accounts that have been created and are managed by the DLive Team. These accounts are:
@DLive
@TeamDLive
@DLiveForever
@DLiveStarBooster
@DLivePay
This concludes the first report of many.
DLive has been adored by many people, since day one we have had an overwhelming amount of support from volunteers, friends and people who have showed their support from a development standpoint. We can not thank everyone enough. We had a minor set back earlier in the month and the support and love during this hard time was unreal, we are truly honored to have all of you using our platform. If there is something that you would like to know or see, don't hesitate to leave a comment on this post and we hope to address it in a future report.
Thank You,
DLive Team
If you guys launCh an SMT one day, you freaking bet I would invest! I used your service yesterday for the first time and the #1 reason was because of the benefiaciary reward.
You guys deserve a larger delegation from steemit.
Hello @cryptoctopus,
Thank you for your kind words. We're so happy to see you on DLive.
nice
Agreed!
Recently I was thinking about using DLive for my future videos because it seems to have many advantages.
However, as you ask for "feedback of the Community, whether it's positive or negative", I would like to ask you, why it is not possible to log in into DLive by using ones private posting key? In my eyes this is the safest option and DTube offers it as well ...
Hello @jaki01,
We would love to see you on DLive!
Regarding your question, we will implement it in the future, Steemconnect is also safe since no sensitive information is stored on DLive.
Thank you for your feedback!
DLive has such an amazing team!
I really appreciate all the updates and information you guys put out in each of these blog post. It has been exciting to see DLive grow.
Thanks DLIVE TEAM!
💜
Keep up the awesome work! The DLive team is awesome.. I just love how much you all work together and when ever i go on discord i just feel so welcomed by you all and when ever i have a question you are all so helpful.. i think you are an awesome team and are such a great community.. so glad i found out about you guys and can share my music on your platform daily :) Thanks DLive keep up the awesome work! Xx
Thank you Melissa. It's a pleasure to hear that people feel welcome on our platform and amongst all of us. We are lucky to have you as well! : )
aww Thanks so much @kassixo Xx
Do not even lower the teams payments. That is the key of dlives success. In steemit, dlive is the only one who truly serves to attract people in here. Best wishes.
Thank you @wa7 and dlive team for being so awesome with this project. You guys are a shining star.
Regarding outreach it would be cool of we find a service like restream so we can stream to other platforms at the same time without having to pay extra - in order to stream to custom platforms like dlive services lile restream need to be paid for. Now I can stream to twitch at the same time because I have a 2nd laptop but not everyone has one. If there is a service you know of, please let us know.
@jumowa with the new DLive servers, they do not require authentication so it is possible to create your own NGINX RTMP server to push your stream to multiple platforms. It uses a negligible amount of processing power and can be run on the same machine you stream from. There are pre-compiled NGINX servers for Windows available on the internet which is what I am testing with at the moment. ****EDIT**** I just tested the NGINX RTMP server now that DLive has addressed some of the initial bugs with the DLive servers.... and I must report it works very well!
Ill look into that. thx! 👍
God, DLive is consistently awesome. Transparency is the biggest factor in community connections and you guys nailed it. Keep up the good work!
Agreed. Well done and nice to "meet" the team members responsible for the platform!
Yeah I think DLive is definitely undervalued right, but soon could be bigger than Snapchat!
Would take a while, but I'm hopeful :D
You have said words that identify with my thinking towards this project, they are wonderful
The sign of a good business model comes from taking feedback and being transparent. @DLive managed to give some extremely important details for how they work as a company and that should be applauded! We don't see that enough and the fact they take feedback quickly and are quick with support shows that DLive is a great company. I want to thank them for all their hard work. Keep it up my friends!
Thank you for saying what you did. We believe in the same things - transparency makes a great company and builds a community everyone feel they can trust in. : )
Thanks for the clarification @teamdlive I strongly feel like the community needed one because many didn't fully understand your bussines model and that caused frustration amongst certain members.
Great idea and I strongly feel I was the main reason behind this, bugging @tidos out every other day with my silly problems, lol ( I ran into a ton of problems with OBS, mostly because of my odd laptop with 2 graphic cards) . He wen't so far once that he fixed my issues through team viewer, where would you get that kind of support? Nowhere.
Kudos to @tidos for everything he has done for me and to the rest of the team for offering the needed support every single time I needed it.
People get butthurt over this easily, especially if they see moderators getting big votes and they get none yet they don't understand that you guys are working your ass off daily to improve the state of the platform and offer needed support to it's users.
No one should be asked to work for free and I don't get it how people are so rude to assume that you should. 10% is a fair and deserved cut for the and a much better solution than cutting all of it's users rewards by 25% and then splitting it amongst the team.
Anyway, keep up the good work. Cheers!
This is soo awesome that y'all would publish this. Dlive is great and not to mention each one of the crew members are awesome peeps on the discord 😊 thanks dlive.