No, friends-bot is not dead, he is resting while waiting for a better future
For several months, we had to stop our services for several reasons
We started with the idea to bring you a quality service in time,
The value of our vote is based on a x3 so that each user can really win without calculating its profitability as on a x2,25, We did not want a user to end up with a vote losing the final,
This choice was not easy because it required a minimum of power to satisfy everyone, it would have been easier to x2 or 2.25.
We lacked the power, but despite that, we were able to bring you the x3 value we wanted,
Friends-bot quickly becoming more used, because more profitable in x3, we had to go to sleep several times to recharge our power (we had more and more requests every time we come out of our rest ^ ^).
We stopped our services because the value of the steem having fallen sharply, we did not have enough power to ensure our x3,
We used donations to increase it and to be able to return to service,
Some users have helped us and we thank them, but to this day, it is still impossible for us to restart friends-bot, which we regret.
The people who have helped us are of course still voted by our services (despite the fact that it is in sleep).
The BTC seems to give a new impetus to crypto and the first signs are rather good for a general recovery.
We would like to be able to restart FRIENDS-BOT soon, we will need of course enough power to do it properly.
We need you to help us in this process, we are raising the calls for donations so we can relaunch this manual bot that has already helped a lot of people.
We will of course keep a vote in x3 at first and as promised will try to make it evolve if we can.
Our goal has always been to help the community grow by helping new members get their first awards but also the oldest to value their publications.
The FRIENDS-BOT team thanks you, hoping soon to come back even stronger,
Sincerely,