Rocket.Chat is pretty awesome, glad to hear about the upgrade since most of us can't get on Slack!

That said, I'm trying to figure out how installing an Open Source script on a server, something that takes at most ~1 hour and maybe $100/month for hosting is worth $20k when there are 10+ custom SteemIt tools that are actually written and maintained specifically for Steem by passionate developers, and none of them come close to this...

I understand that a Chatroom benefits everybody on a very practical level. However, IMHO this is a strange precedent: Implement other developer's work, make money. Meanwhile, there are trolls flagging people for sharing content they like, because it is is not original. ?????? Is all this Steem going towards the server fees?

Something to consider given that the thing is throwing internal server errors and rejecting registrations. It's not entirely well thought out either, as I could easily write a script to steal Aliases based on Steem handles using one-time-emails, not that I would, but the discrepancy between handles on the Chat and on Steem itself is quite the usability flaw that poses an ability to usurp and otherwise taint someone's alias.

Completely different topic, but this outlines the need for a "Steem oAuth API" and a new "oAuth Key" with shallow permissions that can be integrated into systems like this

And finally, I am not hating. I think this is wonderful and awesome and so grateful someone is footing the bill and took the time to spin up a server, install the script and troubleshoot it's problems. But this does bring up questions about the the merit of receiving ~$20k for opportunistically installing an open-source script that someone else wrote and maintains. I sure hope you're going to donate at least some of that to the Rocket.Chat developers instead of pocketing and/or powering up. As an aside: Donating STEEM to those Devs would be quite the outreach initiative.

Food for thought.