RE: A Hard to Swallow STEEM Meme
For myself, as a user, non programmer, non developer, there is no support for 3rd party STEEM developers. SPS is in my mind a failure when it comes to 3rd party developers. I saw what has happened to steemchiller and his proposal, and to 3speak and their proposal, funding was pulled because some big steem holders did not like the fact they were not open source or on git-hub. This is just how I saw the post and the comments made on two post talking about SPS.
From this social user of steem block chain, it seems if you are not part of the incrowd developers with steemit.INC then your chance of receiving funding through the SPS is...well...pretty much nil.
I am sure there have been a few successful 3rd party developers get some funding, but at what cost? and will that funding continue? since it can be pulled at anytime the SPS people feel like pulling the funding.
Nothing wrong with being an end-user man. Often times cuss to myself wishing never learned to code, changes how you think.
The SPS system seems to have a quite high bar to break in order to get funding, although their are a collective of "whales" that can easily prop things into the SPS green zone if they band together. As someone who has access to the "secret" slack chat for STEEM developers I can tell you support from within is hit and miss, some of the guys honestly want to help developers, some don't really care at all.
Hoping that my proposal goes through, although it will likely be a miracle if that is the case.
I tried to support your proposal, but could t figure out how from my phone in a hotel room. Like @bashadow I'm an end user and if it's not ridiculously easy to do something its hard.
I want Steemit and Steem to be around for the long haul. I like the idea, and am going to continue to be active.
We need the front ends to be easy to use, and get people in here using it as an end user.
There is a lot of great content, but few active users, and as I've mentioned in recent posts, discovery sucks.
It's very hard for someone new to on-board themselves, or just search out niches they're interested in.
No amount of marketing is going to solve that.