Credits to @pfunk for creating the google spreadsheet about witnesses opinions on Hard Fork 17 Anyone that wants to get more details about the changes can visit this link on github
Here is the spreadsheet screenshot...
- Remove Posting Rate Limit
- The comment depth limit has been increased to 255.
- Comments can now be permanently edited.
- Comments are now paid out independent of their discussion.
- All comments are paid out 7 days after creation and there is no longer a second payout window
5a. [proposed] Add meaningful abuse-mitigation to new 7-day window. Steem issue #900
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/900 - There is now a comment reward fund separate from posts.
- All payouts now look at the prior 30 days of payouts to determine the share of the reward rather than the current pending rshares
- Reward Balance
- Comment Reward Beneficiaries
- Delegated Steem Power
- Accounts can be created with a smaller fee and an initial Steem Power delegation.
- PoW is being removed.
- NTP is disabled by default