whaleshares is still very much alive. from my perspective, I really like the interface and the whole tipping idea too, especially having witnessed so much reward pool abuse over the years. I can only hope more will wake up to the advantages over time, but no doubt there seems to be something about getting a piece of a reward pool that is very attractive to people.
then again, if suddenly the value of WLS springs back to life, it wouldn't surprise me to suddenly see a bunch of users all jumping right back onto the bandwagon. They'll probably also write many posts about how it isn't fair that they missed out on claiming all those "worthless daily rewards" and should be reimbursed for it now that it's worth something.
Even just thinking of hive price at 10 cents versus like 3 bucks, how many posts would claim at "only 10 cents" just wasn't worth their time to post. then when it shot up higher, those same people suddenly show up again upset they're not getting any attention and complaining about how no one supports them! lol
I was on wls for a while posting regularly but I took a break and when I went back it had changed too much for me to try and work out what was going on, yeah something to do with a tip system. I don't think anyone can moan about it if they miss out tho but there are so many sites now we do have to make some choices time wise, you can post on all easy enough but it's hard to literally build communities and engagement on all, you do have to make some choices.