Hey Again Steemitizens.
A lot has happened in my first year here.
A. LOT.
I've built a lot of things here, projects, communities, the charitable foundation. Relationships, friendships, enemies and frenemies. Been shot at, stabbed, cut down and got back up fighting. Fighting to get the voices of the people heard. In print, in audio and video, and in the ranks of witness voting and flag wars and platform governance issues and on and on.
Two of my more technically difficult and costly projects, in terms of sweat, blood, tears, money and love/pain life force sucking dominance, were the streaming stations I built. MSP Waves first, for the MSP/PAL community, winning me a gold medal of honor from them, whatever that means (it came with a little money though!) and then later going on to build a network of my own, called The SteemStar Network - @SteemStarNetwork here on steemit.
We did pretty well, with both stations, and they run 24/7 right now! Well... until now.
Sometime this week, I am going to turn off the 24/7 live feed for the last time on SteemStar.net and shut down what is currently known as The Stream At The Center of The Steemiverse.
But why?
Well, it is a very tough decision, to be honest. I know the project meshes VERY nicely with the other things my team does on the @NobleWitness crew with our "voices of the people" oriented projects and platform contributions... but it's costly to operate, in terms of time, people, hardware, infrastructure, networking, licenses, subscriptions... and it generates only the small amount of rewards our show posts made along the way. Not usually very much, to be honest.
It was a labor of love. A costly labor of love. And now we have options we did not have before. There are dtube and dlive and dsound to deliver your media files.
dLive is particularly what led me to decide to go with this. They make it possible for shows to monetize during live play. Something my crews never really felt comfortable fully doing. Which I admire, but it's no way to "stay in business" with the level of production and delivery we were striving for.
dLive will be a suitable location for our content made for, and by steemitizens like you.
SteemStar Network Is Not DEAD though!
It does however, have new owners.
Whhaaa?
Yes, the steemstar discord community and the brand will now become property of @CarrieAllen and her husband @ChrisRoberts who will use it to flagship the leading hit weekly serial space opera drama theatrical show "Space Carrie's Adventures in Space" and Carrie's "Mission Control Monday" shows among other upcoming surprises they will bring to the SteemStar brand.
SteemStar for your family!
All current hosts are advised to plan next weeks shows on dLive or a twitch.tv account and publish a show location and schedule update to your viewers.
For hosts that do not have a discord to host their show from of their own, contact @carrieallen to discuss possible use of the steemstar network discord in the interim.
I will be keeping the website up till next week or so, then I'll be taking it down.
In closing...
It has been my pleasure to be the one who brought the platform steemian-grown streaming content for well over a year, and thousands and thousands of broadcast hours of content to your eyes and ears, all over the world we share.
I have to admit, I'm incredibly sad about this, but it's the right thing to do. Roll with the changes, develop something new.
Yes, we could have rebroadcast over on dlive simultaneously with our youtube live twitch.tv, vlc player and other rtmp embedded viewing locations, but to be honest, it's just pointless to support all those centralized networks and pay for it, as opposed to getting paid for it.
So, to you streamers, I say, thank you all on both teams for being part of the best year in broadcasting ever made across two streaming networks and all that we all accomplished together. There is much to be proud of.
To the listeners who came to my own shows... I love you all so much. We had so much fun. Damn I'm gonna miss that. Maybe I can figure out dlive myself some time soon.
Dog gamut, I'm all welled up with tears.
Ok @CarrieAllen and @ChrisRoberts...
Shes all yours.
Everybody else?
Well, hell's bells, I'm still @SirCork, right?
