RE: Proposal: SteemWorld Support
Yes @steemchiller …
”… and I hope you can imagine that there cannot have been much time for other things in my life over the years. My wife, family and friends can write a book about this.”
I and I am sure many others “in here” can most definitely imagine. Your post here and some of the initial comments I have read certainly bring sharply into focus the question of whether you, or anyone for that matter, can actually make a living developing code for our Steem blockchain. At least, at STEEM’s current price in the marketplace …
”As a perfectionist, my way of getting things done does not always go straight to the goal without taking care of all that, what is calling for help around me, but in the end, it is always way more pleasurable for me to solve upcoming issues directly.”
With some experience with programming and databases, I can relate to this. And, as a result …
”The finished result will always be a stable, high quality product.’
… you have long provided a service which many, many Steemians are very grateful to have available to them on their individual “journeys” through the Steemisphere.
From here, I can only say I continue to support your work. And, as a man of my word, I will vote for your proposal. You have earned my trust and confidence. But … Very openly and honestly, it is not without a little discomfort with some of the questions raised. Chief among them, as I read through the comments, is closed-source coding and the resulting concern - ”what if something happens to you?” Perhaps you will choose to address some of these concerns. Thoughtfully and conscientiously, as always. In whatever manner seems best to you.
Edit: Your time is valuable. I will take your response to @howo as response enough for me, to what I have written here @steemchiller. Thanks! 👍
Thank you for your, as always, very insightful thoughts @roleerob!
In some of my earlier posts I mentioned that I want to make SteemWorld open source in future and over the time I have been more and more preparing for this. Publishing the code always comes with a few things to think about, not only the security aspect.
So, I am still preparing for that and maybe I should make a public announcement to make clear that SteemWorld will not go away and that I will eventually publish the code when the time has come.
What I forgot to say:
As the planned SDS will be open source anyway and I will use it to power the SteemWorld back-end (includes incoming delegations, delegation history, follower history, transfer search, mentions, resteems, witnesses lost blocks percentage, Steem request caching and all what is about to come within the next year), most of the back-end part will be done with that and I then only need to publish the code of the front-end.
Okay, thank you @steemchiller! Wanting to protect your valuable time, I had just written that I would happily accept your response above to serve as a response to me.
Also, I will take responsibility for not clearly understanding what you had already written before about making SteemWorld open source in the future and using a downloaded local copy of SteemWorld, if any concerns were there about it not being available in the future. Had I done so, I would not have written what I did. Sorry about that! I'll try to do better in the future ...
We greatly appreciate all that you do for your fellow Steemians @steemchiller and hope your proposal for the requested (and very reasonable to me ...) support is approved by sufficient numbers of us to "win the day!" 😊 👍