As far as I can tell, the story is:
- Until around 2018, Democracy Earth was developing its own platform for proposals and votes, called Sovereign
- The Democracy Earth white paper (which according to Git was mainly written in 2017) makes frequent mention of Sovereign, it gives its source code URL as
https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/sovereign, it describes it as a “democratic governance application”, and it includes screenshots of its voting UI at thesovereign.democracy.earthandvote.democracy.earthdomains - In 2018, work started on the Democracy Earth DAO codebase
- At some point between then and now (2022), the original Sovereign codebase URL was made to redirect to “wallet”, and the Democracy Earth web site was given a “Launch App” button that points to
app.democracy.earth(which shows a “vault” UI, not a voting UI) - Since Proof of Humanity launched in 2021, it has used Snapshot, from day one, as its voting platform, and https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/dao as the smart contract
- Since around 2020, Sovereign has been completely abandoned, and isn’t deployed live anywhere
Those of you who are in the know, feel free to correct any of the above pseudo-guesses that I’ve made.
I don’t have a problem with Sovereign having been replaced by Snapshot, as the main voting platform to be used in conjunction with Proof of Humanity. But I can’t find it documented anywhere, when this decision was made, nor by whom, nor why.
Can someone please fill in the missing pieces of this puzzle for me?