While it is true that as a witness I have an obligation to serve the community, the exact form that takes does not necessarily oblige me to anything and everything involving the community.
I was very dismayed at the way that that the situation with @daking and his bad behaviour and attack on the security of the network was handled on the discord and it has put a bit of strain on my relationship with the project.
I am withdrawing my presence from the discord as a result, and though my admin role was taken from me over banning him, this role was not precious to me anyway, and really is outside of the set of my strengths, I would have dropped the role myself pretty soon anyway given what has been going on.
My current witness contribution is in building the Rosetta API middleware, and the discord is just taking away from my ability to make good progress on it, threatening to upset the gains I have made internally in the last week since moving to Varna.
In spite of this upset, I feel good still towards the community at large, and I am circumscribing my social outlet, what little there is, it is positive here on the forum and to me it just demonstrates what a good direction this project takes the legacy of Steem, even if management is still a little wobbly.
I am still present in the ad-hoc groups relating to development, which I am just now noticing is a very nice feature for my exact situation, as I do need to keep up to date with the development of the core server especially, so I won't miss any important and timely updates such as today's hard fork.
I hope it will be ok that I'm not in direct contact with the witness group as a whole, but truth be told, all of the witnesses who are at my level of capability already are developers anyway, and none of them need my assistance, just for me to be productive and pull my weight.
Instant messaging is not the best outlet for my energy anyway, unless it is work-critical. I have an order of magnitude greater capacity for both expression and comprehension of text, which makes dealing with most hunt-and-peck typists like swimming through molasses anyway, and my extensive and dense text, which doesn't get read or understood and annoys people. It's been an issue since I was first on IRC back in 2003, and you'd think after 17 years of irritation with it, I'd have figured it out by now.
Email and blog posts are a much better format for me, as I can write exactly how I feel like writing, and the readers are self-selected for being more capable of comprehending it.
Keep going with Rosetta. Blurt has a shot at Coinbase.