RE: SteemWorld Support tomorrow ON or OFF?
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I was not comparing, only pointing out the issues I saw in the post.
For my projects I pay for a service which we depend on.
I’ve never said that steemworld did not add value and have supported it in the past. I know many users find it valuable. I was simply pointing out (since for some reason the comparison was being made even though the two projects are not competing for funding or anything of the sort) that it does nothing for adoption, rather just provides a service for those already here (which again, is valuable).
I think it's safe to say that the support staff of basically every Steem-based service relies on SteemWorld.
Care to give an example there? It’s a UI for the Steem api. I can’t think of a Steem based service that would depend on it or why. (Honest question here). It is a way to easily see the data in a user friendly UI, but what services depend on it? Curious what I am missing there.
I just do not agree with the idea that it should 100% rely on community funding through the SPS and then get posts like this when the voting fluctuates. To me it shows lack of knowledge of the system and the comments show lack of concern for the price of STEEM.
The project has been highly supported and I would have bet that it would have received funding from SPS again. Many proposals have fluctuated and that meant they didn’t get “all” or any of the funding asked for.. it’s how it works.
I guess I was just taken aback by the post which (like the proposal) was more about personal issues and less about the project that funding was being asked for.
I never said the project does not add value.. if it didn’t, it wouldn’t have received the funding that it has.
Basically anytime anyone does anything with Steem and ends up with a result they don't expect. When I was with Minnowbooster, this was "I sent a transfer and didn't get a vote" or "I got the wrong size vote." (Even today Steemworld is still the only place it's reasonable to see a transfer and a vote on the same page.) At SBI it's "I sent a transfer that was missed" or "The bot isn't voting my posts" or "Is the bot working right today?" Reading a vote pattern anywhere else to figure out which part of the bot might be broken is just lol.
In the Mesopotamians I used Steemworld as a list of posts the accounts were voting in order to generate statistics and do the membership curation posts. At that time no front end had the ability to create a feed of posts an account had voted on.
When I was writing test code for curation maximization, SteemWorld's curation return predictor was essential for being able to work on my methods in real time. Nobody else does this.
At Otterworks, without SteemWorld I might not be able to develop for Splinterlands at all. Not only is it there for me to verify transactions that go astray, and for the many, many times when Steem-Engine can't report its own data correctly, but the other explorers have all decided to obfuscate Splinterlands custom JSONs. The data structure in them is both extremely important and almost entirely undocumented, so pretty much the only way to learn to do anything is to make a transaction and peer at its contents. Even on Steemd they look like this:
That's not expandable, by the way. If something goes wrong with one of those it's colossally useless. On Steemworld they expand to their full data and I can see what's going on.
Lately at Herons Unlimited I've been having to create accounts with account creation tokens due to a technical issue with a new way Splinterlands is doing signups. Even as a dev, it is ludicrously difficult to do this in a practical fashion anywhere but SteemWorld.
Yes, it's a UI for the Steem API. That's something everybody doing anything here needs, and it's the only one that does it well on an immediate scale. Beem's probably more important to me overall, but Beem is clunky as hell to do anything you need to do one-off, like answer "what went wrong in that transaction?" The other web interfaces aren't worth talking about; all the ones that have decent UI, like Peak's history, selectively omit things. As I posted above even the canonically rawest block explorer made itself useless for a lot of the transactions I deal with. Steemblockexplorer is ok once you're used to its quirks, but it still takes fives times as long to do anything with.