I hear that Steemit Inc will not take up the Blocktrades offer over RocksDB but will instead progress with the solution themselves.
What most surprises me most with this debate is that everyone now sees it is a vital improvement to reduce costs - but the issue has been known about for over a year.
I think that this shows a clear weakness of the Steem approach in comparison to some other blockchains (e.g. cardano) which is the lack of a clear and transparent roadmap for development.
The roadmap for development should be absolutely clear and transparent including:
- Stages of development with explanations in layman's terms for external investors to understand the path.
- Technical documentation backing reasons for following a particular approach.
- Estimated timelines for delivery of each stage.
- Expected costs of delivery with potential to outsource to external developers / dApp teams / Utopian contributions if there are developers who have the credentials to take on particular elements.
There are lots of developers on this platform and a clear roadmap would have allowed this issue to be debated and tackled earlier and save substantially on the running costs that have been incurred.