Honestly, the state of steemdev is a fucking shambles. It took me a long time to find out all the little bits of specialist and undocumented info to be able to use steemjs in a competent fashion. And just when I finally get on top of it, they fucking change the behaviour of the API, without telling anyone or documenting it. The methods not longer return promises (or at least getAccounts() doesn't, as that's the only one I've tried since the update). And the only thing they documented was insufficient. They kept telling people to change their nodes from the steemd websocket to the https api.steemit.com. Yet it's not documented anywhere how to do that. I happened to know it from a conversation with someone in some random chat channel ages ago.

Basically there's no or useless documentation, no one to officially contact for authoritative info, and whoever maintains it acts as though they don't need to inform the community when they make changes that will break people's apps. I spent the last three weeks or so asking questions on the steemjs steemit.chat channel, but the people responsible for steemjs (i.e. steemit and others) have abandoned the actual steemit chat mechanism. It's infuriating. To all intents and purposes they don't give a flying fuck about steemjs past what they personally need to do with it. They demonstrably aren't interested in expanding it's usage past their own projects.

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