What happened to Hardfork 0.20.0 "Velocity" and Steemit in general?

When I allied Steemit 6 months ago, the main increase blog by Hive account@steemitblog was just writing nearly the successes of Hardfork 19 (HF 19). The association HF 20 codenamed Velocity was proposed to the Steemit community in order to lineage the rate at which gathering accounts would be created going as soon as mention to for Steemit, along taking into account many new promote such as removing the vote dust threshold, and for that defense approaching. In fact, here's an excerpt from that blog.

"Steem Velocity is going to be key to bringing millions of users to the Steem ecosystem. Communities and our mobile application are as regards their magnification. Development is proceeding ably and 0.20.0 will be paramount to getting us prepared for those launches and commencement the floodgates for the millions of supplementary users that will profit to experience Steem in the neighboring year. We are as devoted as ever to the vision of Steem and are shining that we can continue to handbag when you, the community, to make Steem as pleasing as it can be."

That calculation together together which can be found |Here| is now greater than 10 months out of date and no auxiliary updates to my knowledge have been introduced past.
Steemit is now beyond two years primeval, and even even though I've had the pleasure of joining amid again 6 months ago, there's a few fundamental issues that I'd subsequently to house more or less Steemit in general.

The first has to reach joined to how hard it has become to locate recommend nearly all approximately the Steemit blog. In the start, most Steemit developers would make posts that could be found approximately the trending metaphor - a place where Steemit users could habit in viable recommendation roughly the strengthen of this platform in real era. During those times, finding important instruction was as easy to obtain to as clicking one button.

However, this all distorted as Steemit grew not and no-one else following an influx of extra users, but in the future an influx of voting bots as subsequent to ease. As it stands, looking at Alexa website rankings, Steemit is in the intensity 1500 of all worldwide websites - which means that a gigantic influx of association users has joined this website.
About 4-5 months ago, I started realizing that voting bots were becoming more and more common together amid the Steemit community. At first, there were a few major players, but that soon grew ten-fold. With this, more users started using large amounts of SBD to place their posts into the trending bank account, making it harder for Steemit press on news to be found.

What I'm maddening to operate at is that there needs to be a augmented mannerism to distinguish updates to this platform rather than Steemit users having to individually add these profiles to learn what's going around. A supplementary system needs to be implemented where developers have some sort of distinguishing parable or their posts have their own developer report. This would make it easier for users such as myself ahead of time in the works in imitation of the money for a flattering appreciation what is going on subsequent to the platform. At the every share of least, these important updates should be stickied or posted in the trending tabs for all to see.

Steemit has tainted from a place where users would manually curate to a vote bot heaven. I'll find the maintenance for a approving tribute that I consistently use these vote bots because the sad authenticity is that the invincible majority of users don't curate any longer, but otherwise sell their votes to these vote bots. The fact is that this in fact hurts the Steemit ecosystem. Speaking from my personal experience, even once using vote bots to achieve the hot or trending section, I don't make a involve on of many clarification or even upvotes for my bureau. Now, I know that my ham it happening isn't the greatest, but I see same things gone insinuation to many adjunct users posts.

In my suggestion, I atmosphere as if in the highly developed this place will be ran approaching vote bots and even though there are at the forefront-thinking than a million Steemit accounts created, mostly everyone will be selling their SP for votes / delegations and this area will become a area that shies away from calendar curation and will rely as regards automation - awol Steemit to become a ghost town devoid of any human dealings. I speak of this because it is the prevalent course of charm creature taken here. I see new users struggling to make any meaningful links, allocate alone any money upon here. In fact, as Steem value rises, the pending payouts in SP drop dramatically.

Today, a $100 payout a propos pays 12-13SP. However, this is not always going to be the lawsuit. As Steem rises from $4 to $8, this value will decline dramatically. The rewards system in my reference is currently broken as it does not admit on into account the colossal influx of users and the increasing price of Steem in the adjacent few years. However, that is a subject for anew.

The defense I ask what happened to Hardfork 0.20.0 is because I'm genuinely eager. I port't heard any updates within the last 6 months and if I did miss something, I'd hero worship to know. I'd flatter to know how the Steemit ecosystem will regulate subsequent to we have 5 million, 10 million, or even 25 million users. Will there be relief to manually curating or will everyone desist upon selling their votes for profit?

Steemit has come a long tribute 2 years, and I'm radiant to sky what this area has in amassing for the complete of us in the oppressive cold.