Wow, impressive stuff! I love the layout and design and have been wanting a post preview button since I joined Steemit. I really like how organized the categories and layout is - makes it super easy to find relevant topics. Keep up the great work!
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Yes, the layout is more streamlined and seems to have a better way of viewing things.
Any idea if Steemit plans on adding in "groups" or something similar? Like on reddit it is a subreddit, on forum websites it would be a subforum. The way Steemit works, when you search for something it is hard to actually get to that page.
Say you want to look at the beach tags. Typing in beach brings up a bunch of peoples posts, not the actual subsection of beach(or the actual tag "beach"). To get around that I figured out I can just type this
https://steemit.com/trending/beach or https://steemit.com/created/beach or https://steemit.com/hot/beach.
This is very annoying to have to do. The main groups on the right side of the page bring you directly to the tag/section. I hope they can fix that. When someone searches "beach" and there are a lot of posts tagged as the beach category it should take them to https://steemit.com/trending/beach, not a search page with a bunch of posts that may or may not be tagged beach(because it searches for keywords in the title/post itself/tags.
End rant lol! :)
Yep! Steemit Inc is working on what they're calling "Communities", which are ways to allow open/closed post submission groups and moderation, as well as reward sharing mechanisms. They'll be how steemit.com lets you build categories/groups like that.
I'm also planning on integrating these communities into chainBB. Right now, forums are a collection of posts based on tags and authors. This chainBB forum is configured to show posts with the first tag of
#chainbb. But once communities can exist directly on the blockchain, chainBB will also be able to latch onto those collections of posts and build a forum around it.It's going to be a good year for Steem.
@jesta has been great - very engaged and supportive - particularly at accepting and implementing suggestions. I've made a bunch of improvement suggestions and jesta had one of the bigger ones implemented later the same day. Keep it up! #chainBB is looking very promising - let's keep working to improve it! :)
When you update to the communities settings, will it reset all the content on the site since you are currently using tags?
I don't plan on getting rid of tag-based forums, I think they still have some merit.
If someone running a forum that was based on tags decided to swap it to a community based forum, yes, those posts wouldn't display anymore. I think you could just add past posts into the community at that point too.
Who are Steem's major competitors, ie block chain based social media?
Ok Will have to check this chainbb out for myself.
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