It always has been a bit mysterious who is behind the POB community and the front-ends. There is another one which I think from @leprechaun because he promotes it in the comminity.
The owner of the community; @proofofbrainio was last active posting over a year ago.
I remember from the Discord channel that @scholaris was active on the project in the past, but got very busy.
But as you say, the community and the token will still exist after the domain name expires. From a abuse perspective it wouldn't be nice if the domain name would fall into wrong hands.
I have hardly used the proofofbrain front ends myself and about the POBphotocontest; I once started that to promote the community. I have a nice stake and generate some tokens which I can give away every week.
I will keep my contest running because I like the photocontest itself. When POB really is dead I might consider renaming my contest, but for now it's fine like this.
@richardcrill is also a large stakeholder, but hasn't been very active on Hive lately.
Oh, wow. Thanks for reminding me about proofofbrain.blog. I forgot about that. I like the Outpost layout better but I'll be visiting proofofbrain.blog after proofofbrain.io becomes defunct.
That's right. I guess I could acquire the domain. What would it take to see people stop using PeakD and Ecency in favor of ProofofBrain.blog?
The domain isn't the biggest problem I think. It is the activity of the community itself. I don't think I would use the POB frontend. I'm so used to Peakd. It has so many advantages and a good dev team.
And what advantages has the use of the frontend for the community and the token?
Bit since there is no sign of life from @proofofbrainio as the single administrator of the community I think it cannot be managed.
Do you know who he is maybe?
The advantages of using ProofofBrain.blog include the ability to see which posts were self-voted, the reward split chosen, and the rewards in all of the Hive Engine tokens displayed. There is no Google tracking in ProofofBrain.blog. I only log when a user uses it with their language preference. You have a voice in Proofofbrain.blog. If you want me to add a feature, it would take only a little incentive to motivate me.
I like the fact that you see all the tokens and that you have a wallet with Hive, POB and Ecency.
The loading of the website (https://www.proofofbrain.blog/) where you are redirected to the 'Hot' topics takes very long.
It is more so that people are so used to their own frontend which makes that people won't switch that quickly.