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RE: Reflections on the Benefits and Growing Pains of Project Curie, Steem Guild, and Other Curation Projects on Steemit
But we already lost all our users! Oh well let's get em back.
But we already lost all our users! Oh well let's get em back.
We will have another chance. They haven't done any major advertising yet and we are still in Beta... can you imagine what will happen when we do a hard launch with a massive advertising campaign? We will be in a much better position to retain many of those users...
Agreed . Get the kinks out now.
Agreed 100% :)
@jrcornel, I'm truly not picking on you, you just keep making points I want to address.
I've heard this argument a lot. That we are still in Beta.
I just can't accept that. You can put beta in the logo, but this train has left the station. How much more "beta" testing do we need? When will it be ready to launch?
I've seen startups fail for waiting too long to leave the starting block. We had all the momentum a couple months ago, and seemingly, it was wasted.
Further, how are they going to fund this massive advertising? The currency is so devalued now that it's going to be much harder to bite off that expense.
A lot of coins were sold from the 'steemit' so-called ninjamine account at much higher prices. Those funds are supposed to be used to support and grow the business. Even at devalued prices the coins still in that account have a theoretical value of something like $20 million (though a large portion of it, not all, is supposed to be given away to fund new user accounts). I have no visibility on whether that money will be used for advertising but it potentially could be.
I could not agree with you more on the beta tag being little more than lame excuse for anything that goes wrong or disappoints. It should have been removed long ago, probably July 4 when the payout system went live.
I don't feel that you are at all :) We all just want the same thing here... the success of steemit. Some of us just choose to see things in a little more positive light than others and that is fine... There is a big change coming to the site in 2 ways in the very near future. They are going to start allowing advertising on the site, the same way FB and the others make money. They are also going to be getting large guilds up and running, probably much larger than what we are doing currently. Those 2 things alone will dramatically change the site from where it is today... Lets talk again in 3 months shall we?! :)
When is the hard rollout? What is the game plan? Have they (Ned and Dan) announced it? Do they have one??? I think this is the reason their is very little general confidence in the platform right now.
I am sure they do. They have more to gain than almost anyone here :)