I'm fully against Justin now. It's true the communities you see on Steemit were on beta.steemit for months prior to his acquisition. He simply forced the team to push it live ASAP for the PR. Admittedly, the team's approach may have been more cautious than it should have been, but Sun took full credit for making communities happen and that was BS. The real man behind communities was @roadscape, who has now resigned along with the majority of the Steemit development team. There are clearly features missing that were discussed and were most likely in the works in anticipation of a planned live launch, but I don't think we'll see upgrades anytime soon, due to the new owners showing no signs of understanding/competency with the Steem structure & code. Justin's team is already promising to deliver immediate hard forks that would all but break the chain. I don't think they understand the 7 day payout calculation window when they plan on making Steem able to be powered down in 3 days or less.🙄 Sure, I guess we could ignore the exploit of being able to vote three times with the same stake by shuffling between accounts... but my guess is major glitches will ensue that will cause the blockchain to freeze, and Tron won’t have the know how to fix it.
In short, all the seeming progress Justin has made occurred before he arrived, and the only progress that has occurred since is the mass resignations of all the people who made that progress.
Sorry for the Steem politics rant! Glad the community is growing well regardless.
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