2017 Roadmap

The 2017 Roadmap was released on Jan 17th, 2017 on the Steemitblog(the official announcement on Steemitblog).[1] The Roadmap was a much anticipated document outlining the plans for development of the platform and the blockchain technology in the newly begun year.Contents [hide]
1.Goals
Goals
Long Term Goals
To provide the best platform for censorship-resistant publishing and store of value to the widest user base possible, in an effort to increase human freedom and accelerate the spread of access to basic rights for all people on Earth.
Create a permissionless, censorship-resistant data layer for the entire Internet.
Short Term Goals
Primary short-term goal is to increase the number of weekly signups, weekly active users, and weekly social interaction events on Steemit.com
Provide support and resources to entrepreneurs and developers building upon the Steem Blockchain as a platform.
Overview
Steemit.com
Migrating all services to auto-scaling, self-healing infrastructure.
Useful blockchain data microservices for both internal and external developers to accelerate application development.
“Batteries Included”: Highly available public service endpoints for third-party developer quickstart.
An Ethos of Deliberate, Reasoned Design
Steem Login and signing service for safe and easy third-party app integrations.
Rebranding: new logo, colors, logotype to distinguish the social app from the blockchain.
UI: Design language overhaul for all user-facing application UIs.
Apps: We’re developing iOS and Android native mobile applications.
Feature: Free image hosting. Announced do be available in Q2 (may to june) but was released in January, 2017. See:
Feature: Comment moderation for post authors.
Feature: Community Namespaces and Moderation.
Feature: New user tutorial.
Feature: Achievements and User Insignia.
Feature: Mobile notifications.
Feature: Easy-to-understand status bar.
Steem Blockchain
steem.io: A platform dashboard view into the current state of the Steem Blockchain.
developer.steem.io: World-class developer documentation for rapidly building Steem
Blockchain apps.
Officially supported client libraries for JavaScript and Python.
Feature: Greatly reduced blockchain account creation costs, minus the spam.
Feature: Arbitrary splitting of post rewards, for revenue splitting.
Scalability: The future is parallel.
Steemit, Inc
Physical Decentralization: a global team headquartered on the Internet.
Internet-speed internal team communications.
Automatic tests and builds for all code, with easy one-command deployments to reduce latency to production for completed features, allowing developers to focus on development.
We’re hiring the best talent globally.
We plan to decentralize the @steemit account stake.
All of our software will remain free (as in freedom) software.

References
Jump up ↑ Steemit 2017 Roadmap, Published by @steemitblog in Steemit in January 17th, 2017
Links
Steem Roadmap 2017 PDF : https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf
Steem.io : https://steem.io
@thecryptofiend : The Steemit 2017 Roadmap As a Table - the Super TLDR Version! January 2017
@donkeypong : 5 Things that Excite Me About the Steemit Roadmap, January 2017
@stellabelle : Unofficial Steemit 2017 Roadmap For Regular People or Those Too Lazy To Read The PDF, January 2017
@raymonjohnstone : A visual rendering of timelines for steemit roadmap January 2017
@inertia : Steemit 2017 Road Map Explained, January 2017
Related articles
Steem
Steemit
Steem Ecosystem
In the news
External links
Econotimes : Blockchain social platform Steemit unveils 2017 roadmap Written by unsigned, published in 1/17/2017