# Dev Fund 2024: Community Poll & Discussion Megathread **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [May 4, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-2024-community-poll-discussion-megathread/44527 "2023-05-04T16:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 147
**Author:** ![earthrise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/earthrise/32/11887_2.png) [@earthrise](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/earthrise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-2024-community-poll-discussion-megathread/44527/147 "2023-05-12T14:55:52Z")
> [@refinance](#): > > _However, it is crucial to consider the more common scenario in which an individual reaches for their wallet after a brief period of disuse, only to find themselves in a situation where time is of the essence. A delay exceeding 30 seconds would not only be embarrassing but also cause undue stress to others waiting in line_. Yes, we need to move past the trial decryption paradigm. I’ve [written about the options we have for doing that privately](https://zecsec.com/posts/scalable-private-money-needs-scalable-private-messaging/) and [proposed a solution that makes instant sync possible at some cost of reduced privacy and adding trust assumptions](https://zecsec.com/posts/making-zcash-light-wallets-faster-and-more-private/); hopefully _actually focusing protocol changes towards making Zcash usable_ will be the next priority. There’s a lot of anger in this whole thread, and I’m betting a lot of it comes from frustration that the dev fund has largely _not_ been spent on improvements that directly and observably make Zcash better for its users. I feel all of your frustrations; I’ve been saying things like this [for years](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/a-thought-experiment-on-zcash-user-adoption-priorties/37886), even objecting to NU5/Orchard in favour of [prioritizing messaging use cases and solving performance blockers](https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/4902). I’ll keep repeating these same points until my message is heard. I think some admission that the dev fund has been used to lay a solid technical foundation, but actual usability (in terms of libraries for devs, availability of different kinds of wallets, performance blockers) has been mostly neglected (except what we’re seeing now from ZCG), would go a long way to assuage the anger in this thread. I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault really, usability is way harder and more all-encompassing problem than most people realize. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-2024-community-poll-discussion-megathread/44527)._