I fully understand that software development takes time, and throw-in the [relatively] unknown blockchain on top of that...it's a recipe for delays.
But with Appics, heralded as the first SMT dapp on the Steem blockchain freshly out of ICO stage and almost ready to invite beta-testers, before launching late 2018, the stakes are high.
Surely the Appics team must have some sort of assurance from Steem Inc that SMTs will be ready, and are on-course for release this year. If not, they've raised a lot of money and built a business on thin-air.
What really frustrates me about Steem is the lack of updates, or progress with the "flagship" Steemit platform. Forget blockchain development, this is simple website development.
They should be iterating, testing and tweaking constantly to improve the user experience...but nada (or next to nothing)!
We all have big dreams for Steem and can see the potential, but dreams and potential only take you so far.
I'm optimistic and a died-in-the-wool hodler, but come on already :)
I do not believe Steemit will be the flagship app in another year. In fact, Busy and OnePlace are much better interfaces in my opinion. Also, the updates to Steemit might be nada since they are going to totally redesign for hivemind...or maybe not.
I agree with you about the communication...it is awful...sadly, this is common among geeks...they are great with a keyboard and designing stuff, bad about dealing with people. Their are highly intelligent yet fail to see the value of consistent updates even if it is only minors changes.
It's kinda messed up though because they have the resources to hire someone to do all that for them. They wouldn't have to even pay this person anything out of their pocket at this point... just upvotes.
Agreed. It's kinda maddening and frustrating as hell, actually. They should be A/B testing this platform to death. With under a million users and 50k to 60k actives, NOW is the time to iterate the front end.
There's little point increasing your blockchain to run 999 million transactions a second instead of 998 million when all the people you're hoping to attract (if this is a business, not a science project) care about is how easy it is to use, and whether they get any value from it.
IMO @ned needs a new partner - a non-tech, customer-focused one.