The question is, where is that hard fork or any news from Steemit Inc.?
That hard fork was announced last summer. At Steemfest 2 we were promised a mobile wallet by the end of 2017 and an outlined roadmap for 2018 at the beginning of January.
Still waiting for any of these things to materialize and we have crickets from the steemitblog.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the HF won't actually activate the rapid onboarding feature upon release. It has to be activated down the road with a soft fork. Here's the quote from their last update about it.
The changes required to add support for PoW mining for discounted accounts will be included in hardfork 20, but the actual PoW mining will be added later as a softfork on top of HF20.
That same update said we should have a release candidate by the end of 2017. We're almost into February at this point.....
There is no official release date yet, but a release candidate is expected to be ready by the end of the year.
I'm super bullish on Steem, but I really wish that Steemit Inc. would take some of that money they're powering down and hire someone to actually communicate with the community and take charge of the social media accounts which are not being used to effectively spread the word.
I agree the communication skills of the steemit team really suck....in fact they are downright awful with it.
This is a communication mechanism and none of the steemit team can post an update.
Very sad.