#pixel $PIXEL
When the quote is close to its text: In the early days of @Pixels , strength manifested in pure brute force, charging ahead without overthinking the polish, and it worked. As the user base grew, the team slowed down to improve the systems first, and "honestly, that was a mistake."
I appreciate the candor. It's really rare for a founder in Web3 to put that in writing in a major update announcement. But I want to sit with what it costs to acknowledge and what it buys. ✨
What it buys: trust. Players who felt the slowdown as negligence - who read every week without a big update as a sign that the team had moved on - now have the team's voice confirming that their understanding was correct. That's not a small thing. It tells the community that their frustration was legitimate, not misplaced.
What it costs: framing "We prioritized improving the systems first" as a mistake. Because some of those system improvements were real upgrades. Moving away from what was exploited by bots and was inflationary was a deliberate slowdown for design quality. Framework, reputation structure, staking model - none of those were shipped in a week. They required exactly the kind of precise iteration that players labeled as a mistake, which was probably in slowing down non-functional surface features. 🚀
@Pixels $PIXEL
#night
#JustinSunSuesWorldLibertyFinancial
#AaveAnnouncesDeFiUnitedReliefFund
When the quote is close to its text: In the early days of @Pixels , strength manifested in pure brute force, charging ahead without overthinking the polish, and it worked. As the user base grew, the team slowed down to improve the systems first, and "honestly, that was a mistake."
I appreciate the candor. It's really rare for a founder in Web3 to put that in writing in a major update announcement. But I want to sit with what it costs to acknowledge and what it buys. ✨
What it buys: trust. Players who felt the slowdown as negligence - who read every week without a big update as a sign that the team had moved on - now have the team's voice confirming that their understanding was correct. That's not a small thing. It tells the community that their frustration was legitimate, not misplaced.
What it costs: framing "We prioritized improving the systems first" as a mistake. Because some of those system improvements were real upgrades. Moving away from what was exploited by bots and was inflationary was a deliberate slowdown for design quality. Framework, reputation structure, staking model - none of those were shipped in a week. They required exactly the kind of precise iteration that players labeled as a mistake, which was probably in slowing down non-functional surface features. 🚀
@Pixels $PIXEL
#night
#JustinSunSuesWorldLibertyFinancial
#AaveAnnouncesDeFiUnitedReliefFund