After friends visited for us to witness some signatures for them, it was first to the gym, a board game with Smallsteps, and then sitting in front of the Olympics for a bit. I watched the qualification for the women's Big Air snowboarding, and now watching the women's ice hockey. As I don't follow these sports other than at the Olympics, I have been happily surprised at how much the quality and skill has improved, with far more complex tricks getting landed, and much better stick skills in the hockey. The women will always miss the power in comparison to the men, but that is beside the point when they aren't up against men. I have enjoyed watching.
One of the things I like about the Olympics is that a lot of these sports probably don't get a huge amount of money behind the athletes, but there they are training, travelling and performing at their best.
Remember when developers on Hive did that?
Back in the day, people developed on Hive because they enjoyed developing in a space where they had freedom. But I think that one of the many negatives of the Decentralized Hive Fund (DHF) is that the same developers now have decided they won't develop unless they are getting paid the same as if they were developing for a company and strangely, even when they are getting paid, the work seems to be far less transparent, and the rate slower. Perhaps because rather than it being a hobby they enjoy doing, they turned it into a job. Or perhaps they have become greedy and complacent. Some of the things that have got copious amounts of HBD have barely developed in years, yet are still drawing on the fund daily as if they are working for a top consultancy, with billable hours.
Perhaps all "development" should be unvoted except for HBD stabilizer.
At least from what I have seen, I think that development has gone down since HDF was created to drive development, because it created an expectation of getting paid to work without having to prove the work is getting done. I think the Valueplan shenanigans haven't helped matters, where large amounts were spent on very, very little. Where is the impact of any of it, other than making the community question what the hell has been done?
Similarly to all the creators being told that Hive is not a job, the developers have to acknowledge that they aren't hired by Google or Microsoft here, they don't have a contract with Nvidia, nor are they coding for OpenAI. This is Hive - where the pay sucks, but it gets done for the love. Sure, there might be a way to cover something like server expenses and all of that, but a lot of the development work isn't paid.
Or perhaps rather than paying in HBD, it should be paid in HIVE that is locked and fully vested, but only unlocks at a rate of 20% per year or something.
The incentive should be to create a valuable, generative product of some kind that is delivered, not to convince voters to get paid for the development of promise-ware. Some things should get some development funding, but there also has to be accountability and more than just some updates on a random Hive account.
Build something.
Perhaps what should be developed by for instance @Peakd or @Ecency is an interface that can be the home of tracking funded projects, with milestones and checkpoints, as well as protypes for testing and views and conversation of what is being done, why it is being done, and the progress, delays. If people are getting paid a salary, they should be doing what a contracted developer does, which is record billable hours in 15 minute increments so that the customer (in this case everyone on Hive) can audit and validate whether expectations are being met.
Is that happening with any of the projects?
I don't know. I am not a dev. But I have worked with hundreds of them over the years and none of them would work in the way that many of these funded projects seem to work and if they had this little transparency, they'd be fired.
I was watching the girls in the Big Air competition and the girls having fun. It was the same for the guys the other day. Even when they didn't have any chance of progressing, they took the opportunities to try stuff, to do some flips, enjoy the experience. I think people here on Hive could learn a bit from that. Do shit here because it is cool to do, not because of getting paid. Build something that hasn't existed before, make something fun, great, enjoyable. Create something that the community says, that is awesome. Something real. Something that you can be proud of yourself.
A professional Curling athlete earns between 30 and 50,000 dollars US a year. That is it. They are the best in the world, representing their country at the Olympics, and they are getting paid less than some of these funded projects that are definitely not putting in the work they are getting paid for. Where's your gameday?
But I don't know anything about any of this. I just see HBD going out of the fund, but very little getting delivered.
Anyone can develop ideas.
Taraz
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