Yes, you're correct, various public nodes can be used. Not my bot, just the one I have bookmarked to try myself! Report back on where you get to.

I get what you're suggested, and I'm still super new here, but ... for me, I haven't seen it as a problem. I'm not trying to game the system, or maximize it, or anything -- I just up vote stuff I like.

You don't need to run a local instance of steemd at all unless you a) want to mining or b) are doing something else that is useful I have forks of @jesta's steempress and a fork of steemit.com on my public

Tagging with #steemit-feature to track. I like your feed preferences option, too. I would love to be able to follow certain tags, rather than just having to bookmark them.

Sure! I got steemd working on my Mac with Homebrew. What's the problem?

I'm a novice coder too, but a good code groomer and doc writer :) The people who are good coders often aren't great at HOWTOs and technical writing. With code moving this quickly, I don't know that it

Thanks @ntomaino. The code changes for steemit are all in GitHub and out in the open AFAICT. It's unclear what the deployment process is, and yes, would be good to have an end user readable change log.

I really wouldn't worry about a live data view. I'm still learning twig and how you've integrated it, so that's the main hold up for me. Liquid templating is super simple, including the part where you

I'm in the midst of fiddling with a couple of different themes. Mainly, my plan is to port some Jekyll and other open source themes, which many more people have already created, and document the process.

And man you're kicking my butt on steemit-hun posts ;) I want to get back to some theme work on steempress so I can actually display this stuff nicely, hence no postings on the tag!

The devs on Github for steemit.com have been responsive & excellent. I've made some pull requests to fix the README there, but that's really the only piece of documentation. The protocol / steemd API

Would you say HTTP is struggling? Someone might not be running enough Apache servers, but the protocol is just fine. I get your point for decentralized systems, it's actually a mix of the protocol AND

There will be a variety of incentives around the base protocol. I like that's not tightly coupled to currency. It makes IPFS a natural complement to a variety of other systems. You can't really call a

Trent from BigchainDB wrote a really great article called The DCS Triangle which suggests decentralization, Consistency, and Scale being the three things different protocols can optimize for. As you say,

I asked the same question. Right now, people already "cross post" between various places -- Tumblr, Medium, WordPress, Facebook, etc. I see no problem with cross posting here. And of course,

Yep. This is what I'm trying to beta test with stuff like #steemit-hunt. I think we can (for now) just make do with having groups of people be thoughtful about using tags and self-policing. Then we can

I think #steemit-bots are bad for the #steemitplatform AND for the #steemitcommunity. If the only purpose is to make money, it's all just going to be capitalist bots and idiocracy. In using other algorithmic

Great to kick off #steemit-hunt! "What are some new products that you love?" Is a way better call to action. Makes me want to go find some more stuff to share today! Hmmm. Maybe we should ask

@ntomaino it's not Google :) I found this app because a number of people I know are considering moving their email to different providers. Here's a great post on one guy moving his #email from Google to

Hey @cryptocurrency1, thanks for commenting. This isn't public, it's for syncing your own data between your devices. Alternately, it's for company teams to share info internally. There are some public