What happened to Dbuzz?
Today, I tried, after a long time, to get into DBUZZ. This was Hive's first DApp focused on short content as an alternative to Twitter. Although in my opinion they made the ill-advised decision to keep the "buzz" as the main posts and not accommodate them as comments on a container post as the rest of the DApps did later (starting with Inleo).
The thing is that I receive the following info when I try to open d.buzz.
DBUZZ was shut down and no one said anything? In addition to the fact that everything has its end and that it is very valid to move forward, at least one announcement would have been nice.
But, in order not to rush into conclusions, I did a search. The last @dbuzz post was 5 months ago. Just like his last activity.
In it @nathansenn* gives a walk through the dbuzz history and insides and annouce a shift, not a closure.
*his latest activity was also 5 monthd ago, I hope that the inactivity is because he move on and he is doing well.
With this in mind I enter the dbuzz community to see if there is happening activity there and I found two things:
- Have of posts are posted using peakd or ecency.
- The other half that say 'Posted via Dbuzz' are in chinese and include the leyend "WhereIn Android".
I don't know if that Wherein is related to Dbuzz but somehow is using the structure and metadata that post in Hive like it was Dbuzz.
Could there have been a rebranding or a migration from the website to an app? With that question I enter to the link that send me to a landing page.
I download and installed the app and 👇.
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The app looks clean and nice, but apparently is focused on steem and the chinese community.
It had multiple ways of create an account:
The most worrying thing for me is that ask active or owner key to log in. Of course, I don't try with my account, but I try with a empty and barely used second account and don't let me log in. That is why I believe is an app focused in steem. I guess I let post in Hive if the account was created prior to the hardfork that Hive was born from.
So to answer the question about what happened to DBuzz, I can only say that apparently it's no longer with us.
If you had any insight or info about it, please share it in the comments.
Posted Using INLEO