AskSteem is Shutting Down by thekyle

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asksteem · @thekyle · Dec 10 '18

$0.91

AskSteem is Shutting Down

Hello, Steemians!
It's been almost 2 years since the original version of [AskSteem](https://web.archive.org/web/20170601034355/https://www.asksteem.com/) was launched. At the time it provided a valuable tool for searching through the millions of posts on the STEEM blockchain. To date, AskSteem has served nearly a billion queries via our user-facing front end and our API used by applications like DTube, DLive, and Busy.org.

Unfortunately, due to the current cryptocurrency landscape, AskSteem can no longer sustain itself and on January 1st, 2019 will be discontinued.

# Why are we doing this?
Historically, AskSteem has survived the cryptocurrency market's turbulence by keeping several months worth of operating costs in cash reserves (USD). This alleviated the concerns of other cryptocurrency market crashes. However, the long-term downwards trends of cryptocurrency prices over the past year have limited our ability to refill those reserves at the necessary rate. The most recent cryptocurrency crash was, in essence, the straw that broke the camel's back. For the first time since AskSteem's launch, it's cash reserves are not enough to continue running the service.

# Supported Clients
In some cases, specific terms for continued support have been negotiated with some AskSteem enterprise customers. For these users, AskSteem (or an alternative service) will continue to work.

# Concluding Thoughts
@hoxly, the company behind AskSteem, would like to thank each and every one of our users. We have accomplished some amazing feats over the years such as becoming the [default STEEM search option on DuckDuckGo](https://steemit.com/asksteem/@thekyle/duckduckgo-now-uses-asksteem-to-search-the-blockchain), [adding user search](https://steemit.com/asksteem/@thekyle/new-asksteem-feature-user-search), and being integrated with many of the top STEEM apps. We look forward to doing continued work on the STEEM ecosystem even if that work does not include AskSteem.

👍 oflyhigh, whatsup, scorer, beggars, steemchoose, solikyl, libert, ericarthurblair, equipodelta, stmpay, coolthingssite, anotherworld, bukiland, thekyle, lambdaethanol, tridentcorny, enrag, bouquetclick, gangwaykangaroo, bigblock, motorwaysilt, banffvulcan, pastpoles, lmenfirsrofsede, rozabeer, devidhodz, dzhordz, quallingskipping, pawnpulley, manyellee, viperdupe, periodantenna, tintcombine, arkoseduration, noxiouspick, woodtongue, shanysevoy61, weepyhorrified, describedreef, modelingkey, chestyovert, belkar, moaningfurther, busroasted, assaulenko, herbamazon, olivineplot, wallownine, raghandy, tensteam, marksbanana, lividbouncy, denistuglov, templateflask, shamefulhasty, eclipticsecond, ikudelin, pinchtedious, mvetrov88, upperhonorable, browan4ik, marchenko31, dbrowskim, whirrhomerun, and 14 others

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@beggars · Dec 10 '18

Oh, man, this is terrible and sad. AskSteem is an amazing asset in the Steem ecosystem and it is going to leave a huge gaping hole. We are all feeling the pinch of this broken market, some more than others and I am sorry that it ended this way for you.

On behalf of the Steem community and developers who relied on your services, thank you for everything and I hope to see you rise from the ashes when and if the market ever recovers.

Is it possible that AskSteem would ever be open sourced? Maybe someone else might be willing to spin up a server and host a search API as well, if only for their own projects.

👍 thekyle, intheden, gopikrishnanr, waleedtee, vaultec

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@thekyle · Dec 12 '18

Hi there,
Yes, there is a high likelihood that we'll open source the AskSteem source code. We're also working with some of our larger customers (like DTube) to build a completely new set of search utilities which will be open source from the start.

👍 mhdkh, gopikrishnanr, lastbreach, waleedtee, vaultec

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@lastbreach · Jan 9 '19

Thanks for the work, even though I'm new to all of this, I can see that a lot of effort has been put into this. 

It seems d.tube search is not working currently, is there any time estimate  for when the search function will be back?

👍 gopikrishnanr, lord-gabo

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@coolthingssite · Dec 11 '18

Keep AskSteem alive!

👍 gopikrishnanr, computer2, waleedtee

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@dr-loneabbas48 · Jan 7 '19

Great

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@hijosdelhombre · Apr 22 '19

Really sad to hear about this. Is the anybody working on something to fix this right now? 

Is open source code?

👍 fasolo97, mrb

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@kharma.scribbles · Aug 31 '19

$rewarding 100%

👍 rewarding

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@rewarding · Aug 31 '19

rewarding thekyle

The reward of this comment goes 100 % to the author thekyle. This is done by setting the beneficiaries of this comment to 100 %.

👍 kharma.scribbles, map10k

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@kharma.scribbles · Aug 31 '19

$rewarding 75%

👍 rewarding

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@rewarding · Aug 31 '19

rewarding thekyle

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👍 kharma.scribbles, map10k

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@partiko · Jan 18 '19

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@steemitboard · Jan 15 '19

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@steemitboard · Jan 15 '20

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