The #private-alpha channel was set-up as a means to coordinate the alpha testing of a product, there was no communication about it being final steps before a release…
Which was a surprise, as standard Software Engineering businesses hardly ever move directly from an alpha testing session to production.
And especially not when the product is clearly not ready upon the conclusion of the alpha testing.
No, because DCL’s problem isn’t the explorer. Alternative clients would otherwise boost user count. Just like SDK7 didn’t boost anything. DCL lacks proper advertisement, content to advertise and proper management to stream funds to develop content. We have seen many interesting concepts in DCL but I haven’t seen any decent project lasting more than a couple months. Metaverse is supposed to be an alternative to real life but you can’t really “do” anything in DCL other than chatting and wandering through “static content”. Even DAO doesn’t utilize the metaverse aspect of DCL. For example, every discussion is held either on Discord or Spaces.
I think 90% of the $MANA price today is driven by the overall altcoin market.
I think we, or the Foundation that is who have the funds and resources, should care about having a rich enviroment inside Decentraland apart from the value of the coin; which of course, could be receiving more value if some things were better, we just need to look at statistics and be results-focused to be aware of it. In any case, some people argued that the problem was having an explorer on the web (for me the problem was not the web but regression issues and lack of engagement), let’s wait 3 months and look at the numbers and feel if the environment is enriched, entertaining, and attractive for more people and growing.
But I doubt the Explorer is affecting the $MANA price too much today, also I doubt that a only new Explorer that just works well will improve many things.
Land prices are dropping because DG is selling all its land. That has to go some where.
Mana price is dropping because despite Grants being frozen the DAO is selling millions of dollars worth of mana to buy eth.
Mana went up in the short term because people bought mana to submit items for the wearable contest, and additionally people bought mana to buy those wearables.
now that there is once again nothing to do with mana other than buy the same wearables you could have bought at any point over the last 2 years, mana is going back down.
I think disrepsecting the work of the marketing team, and members of the community genuenly enjoying themselves with the product as USSR tactics is a bit unreasonable.
It’s hard to bring myself to read the rest of your essay when I’ve logged into the new client just about every day since it launched and have genuinely enjoyed myself while well aware of its flaws and still missing features.
I am unclear why you would think that was a respectful way to lead into whatever point you hopefully go on to make
We sold ~1.2M MANA this month, it’s nothing in the grand scheme of the market.
Also very negligible in the grand scheme of things. Even if there was 1000 wearables (which there wasn’t), that would have been ~300k MANA, which is nothing for the market, that’s what we can sell in one go on Uniswap without impacting the price that much. (and Uniswap has a very very small share of the market.)
It is pretty hard to believe there is actually $25m in daily volume for MANA. I can’t fathom who these buyers are.
But fair point, I suppose my hypothesis that the limited amount of time where there was actually a reason to buy MANA would impact the price movement if there are tens of thousands of idiots buying a token they have no intention of using by the millions.
I think it is just as reasonable to consider the members of the community who are not genuinely enjoying themselves here.
It is hard to believe that you cannot read a chart. It is more likely that you did not fully try to process the information that has been presented here just quite yet.
It may sound painful at first. But the first step in solving a problem is recognizing it.
You should trust that this problem can still be solved !
Good to see @Ozymandias discussion about MANA. The Mana did not go down just because of Client 2.0, it is because maintaining good value for MANA has NEVER been a goal for both foundation and the DAO. I think MANA need to go a bit more down to finally raise the alert to the foundation that they are running out of money, but if the price staying at 0.3 usd , i dont think they will be ever care about that. Not to mention the DAO…
its me. Operator Leezee… i am always in favor of immersive enviornments so I hope to see Level 2 intergration soon to h ave all our media ready to play. But, i will say the new landscape elevation update is nice. getting metas/matic-chain working and fixing the controller would be my first priorities… well, i"ll be over in the Lower West Side trying to fix up my shoppe now…
MANA (along with the greater crypto market) has more or less been trading sideways since August
I gotta agree with jar0d here - most MANA holders are strictly speculators and have no idea what’s going on with the platform at all.
The market is controlled largely by trading bots, many of which are probably basic as shit and buying or selling based on the moving average, or watching for opportunities to benefit from arbitrage
