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- I like the idea
I like the idea of a safe, secure wallet, and if that means having the two separated, that's fine. I understand that having the wallet and social together limited what they could do with the social side because there was always the wallet to consider. So, now that it's separate, we should hold them to making improvements on the social end, more than throwing up ads and little tweaks. Otherwise, it serves little purpose for me.
Since January, Steemit had been announcing these changes on their blog. I don't know where else it may have been discussed. They probably should have put up the blue banner across the top before they did it, and made it even clearer about the passwords, but the information was available for months—they didn't just do it. So, I think there's some ownership on their part to do something more direct, but I also think it's the responsibility of everyone here to be informed, which probably means keeping track of the steemitblog. I personally feel like they did a good job of communicating on this one.
I don't like the fact that I need to login every time I want to claim rewards. The stayed logged in check box is still not working. Other than that, I have no problem having more than one tab open for different parts of Steemit and the wallet because that's what I do anyway.
re: SteemConnect. There are people who don't trust SteemConnect. There are people who are pushing for KeyChain, the extension. If I'm Steemit, I don't want to be relying on third party stuff that I'm directly in control of. SteemConnect has been down on occasions for one reason or another, and so, I think Steemit made the best move available to them based on what they can control and what they can't.
Now, we'll just have to see if all of this will ultimately be worth it. So far, the track record hasn't been good, but I think they're making strides to be better in many ways, and once they're done with their cost savings projects, maybe they can go back to creating SMTs and growing us out of this bear market. :)
Great comment. SteemConnect is also developed by Steemit Inc. Though now it is a joint project with Busy.org. So I am not sure why it can't be used.
From a security perspective, it makes a lot of sense to separate the identity and authentication layer (Steemconnect) with the rest of the application (Steemit.com and Steemitwallet.com). So I personally don't see much of a conflict
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re: developed by Steemit Inc.
I've always understood it as the other way around. Regardless, there are people who aren't happy that anyone has their private keys stored, so whether that's a valid concern, or a great risk, the perception is there. Also, I know I've had trouble getting through steemconnect to log on to a site when the site was otherwise up and running. So, something was bogging down in steemconnect, and I know I've read that it's been down. So, whatever Steemit Inc's level involvement, they've opted for the separate wallet.