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I know the team is against hype, which is respectable, but sometimes hype is beneficial. Hyping up the ropsten testnet could have led to a huge amount of people testing on it. No one really heard about it besides people already interested in ChainLink. This release should have been something that got hobbyist devs and random people to try messing around with it, but instead it kind of just hit the testnet and stagnated.

I think just a little hype around ChainLink would help with community engagement, and community engagement leads to more devs trying out your products, more scrutiny on your whitepaper/technicals (which is always good), and so on. The Smartcontracts team is doing itself a disservice by staying hidden and reserved about what it is doing.

Personally, for now, I will be selling all my chainlink I've had since ICO, and leaving the Chainlink channels (telegram, this subreddit also). I bought since I think the Oracle problem is going to be a huge deal in the upcoming years with the decentralization trend (and it felt cool to be a part of that), but almost no one cares about it right now and the team is doing nothing to alleviate that fact. Pretty much everything in the community revolves around people trying to interpret the hidden meanings behind statements made by the team so any place dedicated to chainlink is pretty much an echo chamber with limited information that just keeps theorizing (not about the token/protocol, but about the meaning of words).

Anyways, if you can't tell I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Projects with worse theoretical fundamentals are stealing the limelight, and with a huge community comes huge dev support/partnerships/people actually using your product, and I feel like Chainlink may be dead enough that we are close to the point of no return.

PS: didn't spend too much time on this so forgive me if it sounds like a rant or it sounds like I'm rambling