You may already know this, but DLive has decided to abandon ship, or had it planned from the start, whichever you choose to believe. You can read their announcement on their blog if you haven't already.
Aside from blaming how funds get distributed from the reward pool because of high SP accounts, the back and forth in the comments is probably where the action is, starting with meno's top comment. Who knows if this was the plan—use STEEM and then head over to another blockchain that apparently DLive devs have been creating (LINO), but there's some interesting facts pointing to it.
Be that as it may, their stated reason for leaving is still a valid point, which the comments, for the most part, don't care about.
Anyway, tangent here on all of what you said, but I thought I'd give you a chance to decide for yourself what you think of it all, given that Steemit Inc isn't doing the best of jobs with its own app, let alone really supporting others. I'm not sure how/if it even should do that and do it better, but delegations aren't the same as liquid steem.
re: the plan
Well, okay. At least I know the general idea. A friends of STEEM Monsters community if you will. okay, probably not that :)
SMTs, SMTs, SMTs. After Monday's wasted day, and maybe more to come between now and when the HF works, I like SMTs less and less and less. No mention of Communities in over two months, ever since the HF and SMTs were announced. I guess work can still be seen going on Github, but it's hard to call the project front burner when it doesn't get a mention at all.
very interesting news on the Dlive issue... I had heard from someone something was up, but didn't get any more info and appreciate the heads up... I will check it out, even though you have given me a very nice update btw.
I agree with you that Steemit Inc still hasn't figured it out. That is something that is glaringly obvious. I hope they do though. And as far as SMTs, I am not one of those guys that is screaming "buy Steem now because SMTs will make this place rock"; but I am of the opinion it might be news worth keeping an eye on. I've seen situations where the people running things did a terrible job of managing expectations (but had a great product), and I think this might just be one of those times. I honestly don't know, but keeping my eyes open just in case!
I hope you made it into the top 25 again in Asher's league. Now that you are getting your sea legs again I'm sure you will do really well! have a great rest of your weekend Glen!