Recently I read that Steempress got good progress with their first major update and it is true that it has potential to become huge. But honestly, I am a bit skeptical as well both from a reason that is more fundamentally wrong with steem and also a decision steempress made for themselves. Don't get me wrong, it's amazing to see people already are trying to bring steem to the people and I admire what they are doing. I just see a lot of problems that I personally see as a problem when it comes to integrating it into my own website.
10% of all rewards goes to Steempress?
This is at least, the information I managed to recieve.
It is the exact same reason for why I stopped using Dtube.
I read when I was looking into the plugin that 10% of all rewards go to Steempress. In my opinion, this is nothing but a move of greed. They did respond on a comment mentioning this and their explanation was "that Dtube and other Dapps also does it". To me, I think it is wrong anyone takes this much %(if any %). Dtube does have a better explanation they use it for curators. (although this is also not alright in my books). But Steempress explanation is just "they also do it". It sounds not only unprofessional but also it just is too much money to lose for a plugin to your website. IF steem would become big and take over the internet one day, I am sure many other plugins that will not require this coming to the surface.
10% is absurd. I rather pay 1 time for the plugin than for the rest of my websites life pay 10% of all steem income it might be making. Why don't I just go to Steemit itself and post my posts both there and without steem on my own website?(in fact that is what I intend to do). I know people should be paid for their work they are doing but this is a bit over the top considering how early we all are in this and I feel like they rather make some easy money than actually getting it into a bigger amount of adoption.
I believe few are gonna take this deal. At least it is keeping me away from doing it.
the "7 days limit" is still a problem.
To me, there's little incentive to make the extra effort because of this fact. But this is nothing to do with Steempress but more to do with steem as a whole. On a website, your posts have to be "timeless" and resourceful so it can into the future pay off. I know you can have both steem AND still whatever other revenue you are getting paid from. But is it really worth the extra effort you are requiring from your readers? to go to the steemit website to create an account in order to comment and vote with the 0 cents? I guess the 7 days is a fine extra little income if you are already big on Steemit but again, might as well post something on Steemit separately then.
Maybe with time this problem will be solved and again I cannot stress enough I am not bashing Steempress directly for this, I am just stating it is also a factor for why I will not install it.
Until then... I will keep waiting.
There's simply too little economic gain from adding Steempress to your website at this stage. Also the motivation of "advertising for Steem" is not really big with the current system anyway. I would rather just have a "donate through crypto/steem button" than the whole voting system applied into it.
I think the combination of 10% and the 7 days limit is just simply putting it off for me.
Staying realistic is healthy despite the hype. There's some fondamental problems to this idea of a plugin for wordpress and until they are fixed I don't see it happen.
Does that mean steempress should stop their work? Of course not! Progression is important and maybe one day it will be super attractive to plugin it into a website, it is just not the case right now.