I am pretty new and I ran into this a few days ago and knew nothing about it, Your article helped me understand what was going on. Thanks a lot.

Earlier the bandwidth was serious problem but you need to have some SP for more usage :) but anyways thanks for sharing it in details about the new changes that being rolled out

I am not surprised by these changes. it is increasingly difficult to grow here.

they've been saying 'a few months' for a 'few months'

I like the idea behind RCs. I'm wondering, though, if those with high SP who have nearly all of their SP in delegation will be affected by this, or if it will act similarly to how voting for witnesses work, with no ill effect whatsoever.

I have my own opinions about delegation, but if this causes those who are basically operating at 50 SP or less because the rest is delegated to have problems interacting with the blockchain, if they're inclined (and many don't), then I wonder if that will have any impact on delegation and activity on the blockchain in general.

In addition, in reading through the couple of posts talking about RCs when they came out, I don't remember how this will affect new accounts. Lately they've been receiving less SP and more delegation to start. With RCs, will they have sufficient SP to start with to get going?

The difficult issue I'm seeing here is in how to cut down on spam and other "money for nothing" actors on here while not ending opportunity for new people from poor countries (or simply poor households) who really do want to contribute to the platform.

You can say "create good content" but you know, I think I create great content consistently, but I'm not kidding myself that my buying STEEM hasn't been the greater part of my modest success on here. 

Before I was able to buy STEEM, or sufficiently convinced this was a good investment to decide to, I would not have been able to grow my base of support. I grew by commenting and upvoting. If I had been restricted too severely in how much of each I could do, I would not have been able to interact enough to gain traction here. 

I get how there is a desire to make sure that those who use the resources of the blockchain be invested in the blockchain, but I think there has to be a better way of establishing that than simply how much money someone has been able to put into the platform.

And again, even though you can supposedly accumulate this SP by creating content, not buying it, with this new plan you will likely run out of RC before you even have been able to create enough content to get a leg up. 

How is the platform to differentiate between spam content creation and genuine content creation by poor people? This is the core solution needed, not steps that penalize people for being new and relatively poor.

welcome the changes, much better if it is for the good of the community.

It solved my problem perfectly!

So basically, those who have more SP have more RC ? LOL...so much for empowering the poor, this sounds like another 'lets favour the rich' upgrade. Why don't they just simply ban poor people from Steem completely ?

Still doesn't seem that clear to me. I get the general concept but seems a bit unnecessary??

Here we are at HF20 day +1.5 and I'm already seeing user complaints that they cannot post because they don't have enough RC's. One in particular has over 25SP and she is denied posting because of not having enough RC's... and she has not done anything on Steemit for days! Ah, the problems continue!

Any improvement bringing transparency to the blockchain seems a good policy. It will probably take a little while to get to understand how it works but after the initial period everyone will get a clear picture of the rules.

>like posting, sending STEEM, powering up or down, voting, etc.
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Transactions use up RC?
That might be a problem for a lot of exchanges like poloniex and openledger that have very little SP and RC but have to make thousands of transactions on a daily basis.

Interesting topic ... Although very complex ... We learn on the fly and hopefully for the good of all and not just the big ones.

So if that example costs around 1,000 resources credits, how many do you get every day? And how fast will they recharge?
What's the "price"? I thought you couldn't buy them.

Oops....... That is, this isn't meant for people  with low steem power or what........  Needs further clarification Sir.  Thanks

HardFork 20 is so much being talked about and more is currently being expected of it.
I hope it delivers the promise. Overall it looks promising:)

GReat job @dragosroua