I feel like @jesta is already halfway to implementing the core of a standalone blockchain client with Vessel, and some of the discussion around the tool has been making it a fullbore posting/voting tool, which is part of why it's interesting.

I'm sure that somebody on @Utopian-io is already talking about this kind of thing – or if they aren't, they've failed us as a people and as a group of developers. I can't think of any forum in history that didn't have someone agitating for a new interface within 15 minutes of any interface being accessible to human beings. That Steemit is such a crapshoot when it comes to social media interfaces suggests that a new interface that gave more power to individuals to access the content of the blockchain would be a very, very loud and very, very early suggestion to any developers who were talking about developing on the blockchain.

ChainBB at least brings the interface up to the visual standards of the mid-2000s. That's a pretty impressive start. We just need to go further.