There haven't been a lot of releases on https://peakd.com/ recently let's discuss that.
The short answer is: A ton of UI / UX changes.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE COMPANY
There have been a couple vacations in the team and a bit of work by our team on supporting the amazing success of @splinterlands with our other website peakmonsters.com, we've also been doing small projects like upgrading witness servers and other parts of our infrastructure... however the primary reason for the delay of recent upgrades is actually a sign of some cool stuff going on behind the scenes.
The good news about PeakMonsters.com work is that it helps the entire Peak Projects company to be more economically capable of HIRING new developers (more about that at the end of the post)
A CHANGE TO PREPPING FOR UI UPGRADES
The biggest reason for the lack of the recent releases is that our next updates are pretty big and they're very visual updates and we have changed the way we are approaching UI/UX upgrades. In the past the burden for design was placed too heavily on @asgarth the developer and in order to free up more of his time @jarvie has spent dozens of hours learning how to use Figma UI/UX mockup designs in order to present those mockups to dozens of users or potential users and get their feedback.
In the past peakd.com has built and released fast and then spent a lot of time tweaking after release based on feedback. Now we're just gonna move a lot of the feedback up front and not have to involve as much time from the developer. (And get even more feedback from users and potential users)
Letting the users talk
So the month of august we have put most of our ideas into mockups and then spent dozens of hours on calls with users hearing them talk about the mockups and what they think. Not selling them on the ideas but just getting their feedback.
- What do you think this button will do?
- Now that you clicked it were you right about your intuition and what do you think of the results?
- Do these menus make sense?
- Do you understand all the menu options? (We are asking people that have and haven't ever been on peakd.com in their life)
- Does all the wording make sense?
- Do you have suggestions of wording that make more sense?
- Does the page look good?
- What would you do next on the page?
It's not just about if they intuitively understand buttons and menus but about putting things in the places that make things easiest or make the most sense. We have tens of thousands of PeakD.com users now and a lot of them have gotten used to certain placement of stuff... we have to consider them and we need to consider the millions of users to come in the future and what is also best for them.
After coding the changes we'll continue to talk to users (JUST LIKE YOU) for hours on end getting their feedback and test out the UI/UX changes on beta before we release. Getting their feedback of what they love and what would make it better. But we'll be doing a large part of our testing on people who have no clue about the site and we'll see if most of it makes sense.
To that note if you're super passionate about this sort of stuff you should reach out to @jarvie on discord or on the chat here on PeakD.com. I don't have a lot of openings this week and we've already done many many hours of reviews of current mockups but again if this is your passion then you're exactly who we should talk to. We'll need a good list for when we move from mockups to beta testing as well. This means you talking into a mic for sometimes up to an hour. You articulating your thoughts on different menus and buttons and layouts.
What areas of the site are the focus?
An ongoing challenge for PeakD.com is that we are going to be adding more features so how do we make a site that is complex feel intuitive to someone that has never been here before. We think a lot of that has can be done with a better menu system
What else to focus on?
- Better menu systems
- Better user settings interface
- Upgrades to layout of posts in the different view styles. (For looks but also for intuitiveness)
- More consistency in feature layout between areas of the site and specially the different content pages (topic pages, badge pages, community pages, collection pages, curator pages etc)
- More intuitive icons that users can remember and connect to actions ... and to repeat their usage throughout the site.
- We'll also start to develop new pages to help users find content easier.
MEANWHILE... ONBOARDING
All of what we've mentioned above is UI/UX aka design type stuff... but we need to carve out some time for some big projects like delegations to any PeakD user when they login to our site we can make sure they have the Resource Credits they need to do whatever they want with PeakD.com.
We also want to help with a super simple 1 click custodial sign up system. Not forgetting that our entire peakd philosophy is based around giving users true ownership... but hopefully transitioning users from the old style of websites where no one truly owned anything to helping them want to care about owning their content and connections and some crypto and thus be willing to have responsibility for their keys. Maybe for now all your mom wants to do is make a quick comment on your post and she doesn't care about true ownership ... so we can help be custodians until she does care and maybe educate her to want to care and then take control of her keys.
But the truth is... a UI upgrade to the site to achieve being even more intuitive to new users is a huge part of onboarding in our eyes and we're excited to have a pretty upgrade which seems to be getting a great reception from non-users.
ADDING TO THE TEAM
So that brings us to this small plea to the community for help finding a good fit for PeakD team. We are still constantly looking for the best possible new member of our team. Obviously with particular emphasis on developers... so our long list of features can go get released even faster on our end as our users are used to.
Here's the issue: it seems that everyone else is also looking for what we're looking for ... aka really good developers. It's a very competitive market and recognizing the right talent (and sifting through those that may not be good fits) and then offering that talent enough value (including cash) to come here, over another job, is not easy in 2021.
Our small team isn't really in a place that it can take on part time or beginner developers because they take up too much time to help coordinate and train and our time is already spread thin. I guess the exception to that rule is if they're already very familiar with HIVE and passionate about the project.
On the other hand we're happy to work with people as they do their own projects... we have worked with a lot small part time or one off projects that created features that all Hive sites could use.
- Tipping API by @cardboard
- Hiveonboard to help users get accounts easier by @roomservice
- BeeChat by @aggroed and the Hive-Engine team developed by @reazuliqbal
- Market features from @coingecko
- Search api from @good-karma
- Lots of node features and API ran by lots of different users.
We like this sort of stuff and as developers create more of these types of things for the entire hive community we're happy to integrate the features the community wants.
However integrating more and more outside features still takes work from our team and our own list of upcoming features is still pretty long and so we're really looking for is more experience developers who are self-motivated and can jump in faster and be self-driven to attack things on their own without slowing down @asgarth's own work. We like the type of person that has passion and a vision and can create and not simply code. We're just asking you keep an eye out we aren't going to rush at the expense of the wonderful system we have going right now so we'll wait for a great fit and we know it will come our way when the time is right. We can pay and hopefully they're passionate about our mission and purpose of changing social media and helping people have True Ownership.
From what I have seen, people are really going to love all of the UI upgrades coming to PeakD! I'm sure many new ideas have come to fruition since I last caught a glimpse, I'm hyped to see everything once it finally goes live.
This is going to be huge for PeakD, Hive, and everyone involved now/in the future.
Thanks for helping us test the mockup designs last month
I’m super passionate about onboarding! I find I have more and more friends from Twitter and elsewhere off Hive who come to visit my blog. I’m sure they’d love to be able to comment without signing up, and if it was intuitive enough, they might sign up on their second or third comment.
Also tips in bitcoin via lightning being automatically transferred into Hive like @brianoflondon seems to be setting up with 3speak would be fantastic.
I think this plus some social media outreach would definitely help peakd #1 social on dappradar and grow a lot faster.
I am working on a template for an outreach contest for Twitter users that any community can copy to start onboarding. I’ll start with my own Cross Culture Community and I’ll be using a peakd link!
very exciting!!! I always love what you guys do - not just good work - but FANTASTIC COMMUNICATION!
and that's so key! :)
looking forward to seeing the changes! and hope that it keeps you getitng the "DreemPort crown" for the most favorite platform of our challenges. hehehehe
though I don't know... hehehe ecency is trying to sneak up on you guys 😂
all in fun - and all good for hive! 😘
@jarvie would the developers be part-time or full time?
Reason for asking is that we know a few guys and I will have a reason for getting them on Hive.
Actually this depends on the developers, their skills and their attitude. The idea is that at some point they will be able to move to full time also if they start part-time
Thank you and I will use this post to discuss the issue with them.
I'm really glad to hear about the delegation piece ... I am doing a presentation piece on Hive for a writing group I am part of, and I am planning to delegate to help them be able to move around, but if Peakd were to pick this up, this will help onboarding SO MUCH...
great job, and I'm really looking forward to the upcoming changes. Unfortunately I can't help with developing, but fingers crossed that the right one shows up soon!
awesome cover photo, looking forward to the next version :)
Glad I can drop a comment here to tell the team @peakd that I have really been able to appreciate this interface and the efforts put into it for a while. The mission and idea that drives this community gives publication and data ownership a new face and really paves the way for a new kind of social media experience. The passion you guys have for this can really be mirrored though the UI and how much everyone here loves and appreciates it. I keep on getting surprised at what some of users here are able to do with their posts, formatting, gifs etc. Excited for all your future updates.
Actually the problem is time, if it would have been part time a lot of developers can start working.
If they're particularly excited and can catch on quick and don't require a ton of work to get them started then maybe part time is doable... also probably easier for us if they want to start part time but are willing to move to full time at some point.
That's true, people usually take time to get started and once they are accustomed to the code it's like super quick for them to add any feature
looking forward to seeing the new features. Hope you find a good developer.
Not a dev, but if you ever need help with marketing/writing/SEO type stuff, feel free to ping me. I hold a master's in integrated marketing communications and have over a decade of experience in digital content/SEO.
I am not an advanced developer, but I have knowledge in marketing that can help to improve or give ideas for the improvement of the interface and that helps the adoption and retention of users.
Good times for Hive and Peakd, the new stuff for Peakmonsters has been amazing. Updates coming for Peakd too, especially that custodial stuff seems super promising.
Glad to read this, I love the UI/UX experience of using peakd. It gives me more of the social media experience
So you are integrating a whole lot of stuff into this UI. Amazing.
The on boarding support
Helping non Hivers be able to comment sounds exciting.
Can't wait to see all this come together.
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Excellent work! I was wondering if there will be a possibility for members only sections at some point in the future?
oh wow well I am excited now!
If I have even a shread of confidence in my ability to actually code and work with people I'd totally offer up my abilities. Sadly. I totally don't have any confidence xD
Anyways super looking forward to these future changes :D
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Keep up the great work 👍🏾
A great team effort! I ask if tools and statistics on Hive Saving can be added with percentages and graphs that monitor the progress of savings.
Since Hive savings has really been revalued with an APR of 10%, it could be useful to all those who like me use it, to have an intuitive but explanatory tool.
Thanks so much for the great work
Yes, good developers have become something of rare commodity these days; and expensive.
I have run an development and marketing agency in the past for almost 5 years and every time we had to look for devs, it was a pain ... I used to go crazy 🤪 🤯
So what do you think is the best approach in finding the best possible option?
What a time to be alive, seriously, I cannot wait for what is coming in this game. I recently discovered the game and have been playing it nonstop since like 2 days ago. Game is awesome. What you guys are doing is awesome.
haha this is not peakmonsters.com this is peakd.com... but glad you're liking whatever it is you think you were responding to ;)
Count me in 🙏
Hello, @peakd friends. I am not at all an expert in technical matters, more an ignoramus at it. There is one detail I have been meaning to raise for a while now. I don't know if it will be possible that when we put our tags of our post in the editor to be able to interleave between one or others, if we decide to add one that was not there, and not have to delete the one(s) that have already been put (so it can be done in the @hive.blog editor). Greetings.
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Didn't know that new are coming..
Now I'm waiting for it.
Success!
Seems like a lot going!
Encerio es algo muy bueno y relevante es espectacular además con la gran forma de que se elevo splinterlands deja sin quejas al público y a miembros de las plataformas.
I'm excited for this. More power to all hive communities.
This sounds great
Thanks for sharing this update. I can imagine its Hard to get
More Programmers onboard since the market is very competitive BUT with this Hive Blockchain you have also a very attractive and challenging project at hand.
Keep up the good work, guys! 👏🏻
hey @peakd im getting this error please help
Wow,I love the way, you guys do it online.i guess am just excited too far.keep it up.
I am getting lately a lot of annoying "Can only vote once every 3 seconds" errors on peakd using keychain when I upvote some comments or posts in a short amount of time, can you do something about it, delay votes in the action queue so that this error does not appear?
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