Come down to earth, Massa team. Are you actually using your own product?

Massa Improvement Proposals
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Hey.

Actually, this isn’t really a ‘Massa Improvement Proposal’. It’s more a call to improve the work and the outcomes — a cry from my soul.

Massa Station & Wallet

The icon is ugly.

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(macOS)

The wallet lacks a full transaction history from the beginning, and the UI looks ragged on some screens.

The Massa domain list loads without any spinner or loading indicator.

Dusa

It’s a shame. While you say ‘it’s a third-party project’, Dusa is effectively a default entry point for any MAS user.

I’ve been unable to use it comfortably for months. It’s slow, laggy, and unfriendly. The UI is inconvenient, charts are broken, and placing or removing liquidity is a headache. Even simple actions often take far too much time.

Transactions fail regularly. Massa claims to handle thousands of TPS — but I don’t see that. What I see is a single transaction failing.

Bearby

I can hardly think of a worse production app.

Explorer

It’s not functional — I can’t even see the tokens in my wallet, let alone the full transaction history.
And it doesn’t look good either. It feels more like a stub than a finished product.

Some may say these are small and unimportant things, but to me they matter more than anything else. I see many ‘so-so’ projects, and it’s rare for me to find something I truly stick with.

Do less, but do better.

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“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

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Hello,

for Dusa and Bearby, please refer to their respective maintainers, or even better, contribute !

For the products built by Massa Labs, we are continuing to refine them.

Massa station: there is an upcoming release this week with major improvements. If you see issues, please open them here: GitHub · Where software is built

Again, even better: contribute ! all of it is open source and is supposed to be community owned.

A note on transaction history: Massa nodes do not keep history, they are amnesic by construction. This was discussed many times and is a design choice to ensure low hardware requirements for nodes. Any “history” system, including the explorer, is fully centralized, which is why we don’t put too much emphasis on it right now, but we are looking for solutions to decentralize.

But remember, we are not a pump and dump, which is why half of Massa Labs developers are working on contracting projects to bring sustainable money in. So we have limited resources that we need to prioritize, and we believe that true adoption will go through products that actually solve an unsolved issue and bring users, rather than just being yet another shiny L1. And the best tools are ones that are accessible, in which the blockchain itself is invisible but used as a technology that enables true freedom transparently.

Is this the right allocation of resources? Only time will tell. But we strongly believe in this vision.

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Hi,

Thanks for the attention.

refer to their respective maintainers

Are you saying this towards yourself and the Massa team? As far as I know, Dusa and Bearby even received grants. If you endorse and promote this work, then you share responsibility for its quality and results.

contribute

Why should others contribute if the project owners themselves don’t set a strong example? If leadership doesn’t demonstrate care for quality and usability, it’s hard to expect the community to do better.

A note on transaction history

If the message continues to be “we can’t do it,” then that will remain the outcome. Ethereum also doesn’t have built-in transaction history, yet Etherscan exists. The difference is that someone took responsibility and actually built what users want.

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Hi,

As far as I know, Dusa and Bearby even received grants. If you endorse and promote this work, then you share responsibility for its quality and results.

The foundation gave resources to many ecosystem projects to develop the best they could given limited resources both on the foundation side and on the side of the projects themselves. Many are held by people who have a job and are working on those projects on evenings/week ends (eg. Bearby). We are very grateful for their efforts especially since the token price often does not allow high enough grants. We are not in a position in which we can force those people to standards expected from a full time paid professional team with high budget.

Why should others contribute if the project owners themselves don’t set a strong example? If leadership doesn’t demonstrate care for quality and usability, it’s hard to expect the community to do better.

We have invested huge efforts into building those products, getting them audited and so on… and we are continuing their improvement, albeit slower than Ethereum or Apple would do for obvious reasons. It is very easy to criticize without doing or to point to billion dollar entities that did this or that better than us. Is it too much to expect community contributions to give us a hand ?

If the message continues to be “we can’t do it,” then that will remain the outcome. Ethereum also doesn’t have built-in transaction history, yet Etherscan exists. The difference is that someone took responsibility and actually built what users want.

I never said that we can’t. I actually said we are researching ways to achieve it despite the complexity of the task and limited resources that we need to prioritize. And again let’s not compare with Ethereum, there are orders of magnitude of difference in scale and means.