# Project description  
 
In 2022, Ecency continue to onboard many people and improved many user-facing applications with regular monthly releases and restructured some of the backend services. We continue to be the community owned frontend with more and more people contributing to our cause. Check these awesome people who are [contributing](https://ecency.com/contributors), we are adding previous contributors and new people with every update. 
 
We are even more encouraged and excited about future of [Hive](https://hive.io) and how far we came together as community.  
Ecency website is built with cutting edge technology, the fastest frontend on Hive. Ecency mobile application is feature full, complete mobile experience to onboard masses. Our team also provides services like dedicated Imagehoster instance and custom unified Push notifications for website, desktop and mobile apps, making Ecency stand out and future proof, scalable and all of that is opensource. 🚀 We love our community and platform we are building together and [set it free be free](https://ecency.com/hive-125125/@good-karma/ecency-2021). 

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# Vote for proposal
 
[Vote for this Proposal using Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/sign/update-proposal-votes?proposal_ids=%5B245%5D&approve=true)
Ecency: https://ecency.com/proposals/245

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<center>![proposal-ecency-support-development](https://images.ecency.com/DQmZvsMTWWxVvu7xN4enqep6aCC1rmUmT52DMX9qeTFNcCf/proposal_ecency.png)</center>  
 
As of right now, our team maintains and continue to develop following services, opensource.  And this proposal funding will be used to maintain and improve these services:
 
- Ecency website: https://ecency.com  
- Ecency desktop app: https://desktop.ecency.com  
- Ecency mobile apps: https://android.ecency.com, https://ios.ecency.com  
- Hivesearcher powerful search engine: https://hivesearcher.com
- Hivesigner OAuth2 standard for Hive: https://hivesigner.com
- Hivexplorer, block explorer for Hive: https://hivexplorer.com
- Ecency easy signup: https://ecency.com/?referral=ecency  
- Ecency RPC full node: https://rpc.ecency.com  
- Ecency image hoster: https://images.ecency.com  
- Ecency render helper: https://github.com/ecency/render-helper  
- Ecency RPC proxy, [Jussi](https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/jussi) replacement: https://github.com/ecency/rpc-proxy 
- Onboarding IPQS endpoint used by our signup and Hiveonboard signup services. 
- Custom eSync core, that powers content Edit history and easy immutability feature on Ecency.com. 
- Pointing system which we believe improving retention on our platform. 
- Push (web, mobile) notifications, activities tracker. 
- Dev home: https://github.com/ecency  
 
## Do you think Ecency brings value to Hive?  
 
With this proposal we aim to cover a lot of the features on our roadmap as well as help us support open infrastructure to scale and offer unique, niche products and features. Please support Ecency in our mission to create opensource, decentralized, thriving, innovative softwares for Web3.0 communities!  

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# Vote for proposal
 
[Vote for this Proposal using Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/sign/update-proposal-votes?proposal_ids=%5B245%5D&approve=true)
Ecency: https://ecency.com/proposals/245
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### Explanation of proposal costs  
 
90% of these funds will be used to develop new features and 10% covers server costs. Plus Witness earnings from @good-karma which is already dedicated to this mission, additional funds will help us scale our team of developers, more actively grow our development efforts to help newcomers. We also have regular [newsletters](https://newsletter.ecency.com) and press-release updates to help with Hive and Ecency branding. 
We would like to allocated some dev resources towards Hivesigner.com which has been idle in past few months. Allocate some resources towards Hivesearcher.com. New project Hivexplorer.com could also be extended to be informative and easy to navigate like etherscan, other popular block explorers, all opensource.
 
### Benefits  
 
- Fastest, secure, feature-full, unique and **opensource website frontend**, **mobile application** and desktop interface. Dedicated infrastructure to support and serve ever growing visits.  
- **Image hosting** instance that can serve you even oldest images from years ago. Try it our on ecency.com and you will know what we mean, open any post older than 3-4 years and see if images load for you. We noticed some images are visible in our instance that are missing from images.hive.blog instance.
- Dedicated Blockchain RPC node to handle traffic on Ecency apps and services.
- Better, improved authentication system OAuth2, via continuous development of Hivesigner.
- Better search functionalities and new APIs via Hivesearcher.
- Opensource block explorer that is unique in design, yet powerful for developers to easily join via Hivexplorer.
- Better integration of 3rd party services, Engine, SPK networks.

And of course unique user experience and simple, quick signup that helps onboarding new people into blockchain social, blockchain tokens, trading, blockchain discovery and blockchain communities world.  
 
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### Costs  (updated)
 
**Daily: 396 HBD**  
 
Ecency.com: ~120x2 hours per month (6 devs), 7200 HBD 
Hivesigner.com: ~80 hours per month (1 dev), 2000 HBD
NEW* Hivexplorer.com: ~40 hours per month (1 dev), 800 HBD
Recurring costs (Servers): ~$1800, ~1800 HBD + rest from our witness earnings  

Edit history here: https://ecency.com/@ecency/ecency-development-and-maintenance-3?history

We have 9 developers and getting all of them full time is not reasonable ask, so we are load balancing it, all interconnected because some of us bring multiple skillset to the team, some of us full time, others part time. 
 
#### State of DHF  
 
- As of right now there is around ~19,376,000 HBD available for proposals  
- Daily possible funding on Decentralized Hive Fund is ~193,760 HBD  
- We are asking **Daily 396 HBD**  
 
We understand that during the duration of our proposal we may get partial funding sometimes, no funding sometimes. But it won't stop us from developing and delivering. We hope you see value [Ecency team](https://ecency.com) brings to Hive and support us in common vision and goal!  
 
Thank you!  

# Vote for proposal
 
[Vote for this Proposal using Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/sign/update-proposal-votes?proposal_ids=%5B245%5D&approve=true)
Ecency: https://ecency.com/proposals/245
PeakD: https://peakd.com/proposals/245
HiveBlog Wallet: https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals  
Github: https://github.com/ecency