How did it happen guys that you didn't work out the fork such that it does not piss off anybody? Alt was a very good witness and he shut down btsbots together with his witness node, which is a lot of pity...
We came up with a detailed description of the proposed changes 6 months ago. The BSIP-18 proposal was discussed here in the forum, all questions that came up were answered, all concerns addressed (AFAIK). Then a worker was created and was quickly voted in, meaning the proposal has been approved by a majority of the shareholders. The proposal was implemented as planned, and was extensively tested in testnet. All witnesses were supposed to participate in testing, were repeatedly asked to do so, and had lots of time to do it. Then we created a release and announced the hardfork, 5 weeks before the scheduled time. We even postponed the release for another 10 days after discovering a bug.
AFAICS we did everything exactly right.
Then, a mere 5 days ago, this message appeared:
btsbots.com will not support the fork because of the unreasonable trade logic.
No explanation what was meant with "unreasonable trade logic". Apparently there were discussions in various other channels. I have heard about claims that the release contained "malicious code injection", and that your "funds are not safe on BitShares". Again, without any explanations what exactly the problem might be.
I have been told that several chinese-speaking community members talked to
@alt - it seems that the "unreasonable trade logic" is that holders of SILVER can settle their bitassets against the settlement_fund. I don't see how that is unreasonable. Quite the opposite, I think this is the way how things are intended to work. Nobody else who I talked to really understands alt's point of view, or supports his position.
I'd like to point out that at "T - 5 days" you can't simply stop such a hardfork. Almost everybody who runs a full node will most likely already have upgraded at that point. We've announced the release 5 weeks before the planned date, precisely because it takes time to get the information out to an unknown number of people.
How did it happen guys that you didn't work out the fork such that it does not piss off anybody?
Please tell me what we could have done better. Maybe it will help next time.