Quick Update on Steemit.Chat, Change of Management And The Way Forward!
A quick recap. From July 2016 until a few days ago @riverhead had been running the servers, managing the hosting and all expenditures related to running the main communications platform for Steemit. He was also the sys-admin for the platform and helped us scale from a hundred users on day 1 to over 53000.
Steemit.Chat if you didn’t know, has always been a privately owned, and managed service. Riverhead originally owned and handled everything server-side.
When we began @riverhead wanted me to assist with user onboarding and day-to-day user management of Steemit.Chat and I was happy to take over that role. He trusted my judgement when it came to tackling the day to day issues. It was a real hot seat but I enjoyed the process very much.
Infact, I invested all of my time in my early days on Steemit into community building and assisting users in using Steemit.com. There were many sleepless nights and lots of drama. But then that's how social media platforms are. All of these things led to great levels of engagement on the platform.
Over time we had @gandalf step-up to assist us server-side and @pfunk stepped up from being a moderator to admin position. Both of them assisted the platform with user-management. Gandalf did a great job managing the server from the time he became an admin.
Suffice to say we’ve had a great run. This was more or less the original active chat admin team. We’ve also had a few users assist us in moderation of some of the top channels on the platform. We have been motley crew of sorts and time just flew past us.
Riverhead is moving onto newer ventures and has decided to hand over the ownership of the platform to @followbtcnews. He will lead the new management as stated in his post.
It is my understanding now that he has the capability to scale up this platform which is something it really needs if we are to grow the community on Steemit. Congratulations to @followbtcnews on taking over the chat!
I think with a new team in place a lot of it's shortcomings can be improved and perhaps this is a good opportunity to attempt scaling up to meet the needs of hundreds and thousands of new users joining Steemit. I'm aware many of you have been facing several issues. Most of these will be sorted out in the days to come.
On a personal level I can say that I have enjoyed working with Riverhead a lot. He’s one of the nicest people that I’ve had the pleasure of knowing personally, and I think our association professionally lasted a lot longer than we initially thought it would. I’ve learnt a lot along the way from him and I’ll forever be grateful for all of his support.
Today, there are tons of discord instances and given this downtime for Steemit.Chat many users have also moved away to using discord. However, most users use both and Steemit.Chat has the advantage of numbers and in all likelihood it will continue to do the same. Most active users and top investors of our platform are there, making it very easy to network with Steemians from all over the world.
My weekly official Steemit.Chat contests will continue to run every week on Monday. I welcome new contest ideas in the contest channel as well as greater participation from everyone.
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who used Steemit.Chat and continues to use and recommend it. I hope I was able to assist some of you in your journey on Steemit. Having said that, it's business as usual pretty much here on out. I'll be around assisting as usual and if any of you run into issues with the chat feel free to reach to any of the admins including myself.
If you like my work kindly resteem it to your friends. You may also continue reading my recent posts which might interest you:
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- Announcement: Steemit Meetup in New Delhi - 11th Feb, 2018
- Steemit.Chat Contest #16 + Contest #15 Winners Announcement!
Hi, I really much appreciate the value you've added to the community with steemit.chat
But I think the main reason why discord seems like a better choice is because it has an app.
There's something about an app. It personalizes experience. I would rather tap on a whatsapp icon to open my chat world, than go to a browser and type in whatsapp.com
I always found it a bit too stressful to access steemit chat through a browser. If you may, I think you should try to get the new team to work on a mobile application for steemit.chat
It would bring a whole new dimension and interactivity to the idea. I mean, generally, a chat platform is better appreciated as a mobile application...take for instance, esteem app
I would pretty much be glad if such update comes along soon
Ofcourse, Discord works great and I use it myself. Infact most top users on Steemit.Chat are likely to use Discord as well. We should use whatever we feel works best for us. Steemit.Chat can be accessed on mobile via Rocket.Chat app. Any issues revolving this usage should get fixed in the days to come.
Okay rocket.chat app..didn't know about that...still I think it'll be great to have a "steemit.chat" app itself. In my early days on steemit, I heard so much about steemit.chat, went to playstore to search for it. Ended up downloading at least three unrelated apps before I realised it just wasn't there.
Actually Rocket.Chat is the software that powers Steemit.Chat.Steemit.Chat is an instance of Rocket.Chat which we have been running since 2016 as a service to the community.
Rocket.Chat app has been working well for me. Thanks for all of the ways you support the platform @firepower!
thanks for the update! That's cool, I didn't know you could access steemit.chat via an app also.
I didn't know you guys are the ones behind Steemit.Chat. It has transformed the platform hugely, making it user friendly for anyone that loves social networking.
Congragulations @followbtcnews, this is a new challenge for you, I already feel good and better thing are coming from the way your saying it.
@riverhead thanks for the time you have invested to make us enjoy the platform.
Thanks @firepower, @gandalf, @pfunk and @riverhead, many users are getting onto this platform because of your enormous contribution to the steemit community.
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Thank you for all you have done with Steemit.chat. I felt lost when it went down. You were always so responsive and helpful! Thank you again!
Thanks for update!! Today is my daughter 2nd bday if you free https://steemit.com/father/@ryan313/my-youngest-turns-2-today
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Congratulations are in order for @followbtcnews... I'm sure you will meet this challenge well. Although I know none of you, thanks to @riverhead and team for helping to make Steemit what it is today. Thanks also to @firepower, @gandalf, and @pfunk and anyone else who has contributed to the growth of this platform. As a old blogger, I only wish you'd had all come 'round sooner!
Idea is good and updates are also necessary time to time. I think I should have been incorporated in the main steemit portal. Though it not there, but the good thing is, it is back now.
Official steem chat is better than other alternatives. One thing I must also say that everyone must encourage and provide some attention to platforms like this,so that it will not suffer further.
I agree. Hopefully there will be integrations with Steemit.com atleast in terms of login in the future.
Thanks for the reply, hope you may visit my account too some day.
Nice work. But hope it will be user friendly for mobile view now?
Wow, steemit without steemit chat will be like a world without love.
Thank God everything is back and i really appreciate you @firepower for all your good works
I'm a steem chat user and I must say you and your team have really done a good work on sternly chat.
Wishing @riverhead the best in his new venture.