appreciate your efforts....^^

nice posts, congrats :-)

Cant wait to test things out!

The new changes are promising, correcting the time window was a must. Now for HF19 to get our flatter reward curve! 
Meanwhile there needs to be viable options for large accounts to incentivize SP holding, I think a discussion about those incentives is needed, I haven't brainstormed this at all and hope there are others who have put some consideration on the issues, issues which will come from a flatter reward curve if we are to go in that direction.

Thank yo so much :) @pfunk

Excellent post. I'm very excited for tomorrow! :) and for Friday's anncounement from the Marketing Guy

Thanks @pfunk for always debating your actions as a witness with the community, you are one of the most level-headed witnesses out there and I hope you remain as a top-19 witness for a very long time... 

I do agree that this is a new era for Steem and for me the most important feature of this upgrade is the ability of third party apps to profit from their work .

Good job, congrats! 

Is there any documentation about the arbitrary split of rewards? Should we just dig into the code or is there an easier way? I'm asking for a friend...

Hi. We don't know one another, but I have seen you do great things for the community, you are certainly an active member. I appreciate especially what you do for the music community here, as I have been trying to get my musician brother to join.  
Okay, the reason I'm here is that I have not seen anything that remotely addresses what is going on with the rewards today, and I'm hoping you'll be able to explain it. If not, perhaps you know someone who can? My post from yesterday was at sixteen dollars, and I woke up to it being sixteen cents. I posted a chapter today and considering who has voted on it, it would generally be around five or six dollars right now, but it's three cents.  Can you shed any light on this? You must know that this has the potential to cause major catastrophes, especially if people don't know, as usual,what is going on. 
Thank you for your time.

w00t!

when u are going to make and update on Obama healthcare :P

For Steem came a new era. And it is felt, when it is necessary to make cardinal decisions in spite of some exclamations of discontent. But practice has shown that changes ultimately go to the best. The stabilization of the STEEM course gives us great hope for a good future and the development of the platform. I fully support these processes. Thanks to everyone who takes part in them.

It all sounds very exciting and exciting, the many innovations are interesting. The time will show how the innovations work

I have my seatbelt on, and ready for the ride.  

Just like a roller coaster, it's not over yet, by a long shot.  Exciting times!

Thanks so much - you are really doing  a lot for the success of steemit!

Thanks for the breakdown, learned a lot from this post, appreciate it @pfunk

What is HF? Sorry I am new to all this.

👍

I'm optimistic after seeing sneak's engagement with the community. It's great to know he's heading the backend team - his approach seems to be the ideal combination of realism (i.e. directing development for speed and efficiency) and idealism (i.e. open source principles). Though a brilliant developer (Steem wouldn't have existed without his contributions), I always felt Dan was too idealistic in many situations. Utopian, even (remember the hyperinflation?) I hope this continues - look forward to their announcement about the new development process. (Though not impressed by how long that post has been in the works...)

Now the goal has to be a quick-ish update to HF19 with a flatter reward curve and some bug fixes, hopefully by late-April. It's a significant enough feature to merit its own hardfork, one that must be rolled out before significant marketing efforts begin. We are much more likely to retain new powerers up who see a visible impact from their votes.

I am pleased that you did not publicly mention that you are providing me with the intelligence necessary to take over this platform. 

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Wait. This isn't our private communication channel?! DENNIS!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for the clarity of this post. Stress-free reading!