RE: How does whaleshares differ from steem?
This is a great write up compared to the others I've seen, but still some issues I have. First, it's absolutely a steem clone, not having a stablecoin and removing some functions doesn't change that. Second, to check to see if it was a true steem clone (I.e. a fork of the steem codebase), I went looking for the source code. Either they've hidden it well, with not a single result on Google that actually has code in it, or they're not open-source, since they don't even mention it or contributing in their FAQ. Absolutely a minus, wouldn't even consider joining this block chain without it being open source, and I'm surprised that it isn't, or isn't readily available in the FAQ. Third, while some of your the issues listed are almost definitely never changing (I can't see people wanting to get rid of reputation probably), most are possible. Anyone can suggest changes and push for them in the community, and just like you said, everyone thought steemit inc's share would decrease over time, you can't know what will happen with whaleshares. Steemit inc has at least proven to not be in it for just a cash grab. The devil you know & all that. Thanks for the write-up!
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I suppose technically speaking it is a clone based on the same source code but the way the tokens were distributed makes it so very different to steem. I was certainly under the impression it was open source? Can't imagine why they would hide it? Will look into that one! Thanks for the heads up.
I've been posting here daily and singing steemit's praises for over two years now (driving everyone around me completely barmy) and I'm not about to leave. I love it here :)
But I am certainly interested to follow the progress of others like whaleshares & weku too.
Only time will tell how they pan out...
Is this not the source code?: https://gitlab.com/beyondbitcoin/whaleshares-chain
Interesting, I saw that one but I discounted it because there's one contributor, no contributions in the past two weeks (and no master updates in 2 months!), and hosted on gitlab instead of GitHub. I also wasn't sure about the owner, but that doesn't really matter. Is that actually it though? One Dev, straight steem clone with barely any code diff? All the features mentioned in this write-up seem to be the only changes made, and as I said, the master branch hasn't been updated in 2+ months. That's a bit disappointing in general
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no, that is the source code.
Re-read what I said, I wasn't denying it was the source code (I did skip over it after checking it out when first looking for the source code), I'm just a bit disappointed with it
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I know. I was just confirming that thats the entire source code. With 1 dev working on it.
Not sure what they're working on now.
Oh okay, yeah I definitely read that wrong. Thanks for confirming that it is
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I think you may have overlooked the 2200+ commits in the whaleshares version of condenser...
https://gitlab.com/beyondbitcoin/whaleshares-web
I did I guess, I looked at all branches of the block chain but I guess when I switched back to projects I was still looking at master, since all I was was that last commit into web master two months ago
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Interesting, good catch, I saw that one but I discounted it because there's one contributor, no contributions in the past two weeks (and no master updates in 2 months!), and hosted on gitlab instead of GitHub but no CI/CD. I also wasn't sure about the owner, but that doesn't really matter. Is that actually it though? One Dev, straight steem clone with barely any code diff? All the features mentioned in this write-up seem to be the only changes made, and as I said, the master branch hasn't been updated in 2+ months. That's pretty disappointing in general
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It's straight up trash.
Thanks for clearing this up!