We are excited to announce the official release of Communities on Steemit.com!
With this release steemit.com transforms from a decentralized blogging platform, to a decentralized communities platform similar to reddit.com, and finally delivers on its original promise as stated in the Steem Whitepaper:
Collectively, user-generated content has created billions of dollars worth of value for the shareholders of social media companies, such as Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter. In 2014, Reddit hypothesized that its platform would be improved if everyone who contributed to reddit.com by posting stories, adding comments or voting were rewarded with a fair share in Reddit, Inc. Steem aims to support social media and online communities by returning much of its value to the people who provide valuable contributions by rewarding them with cryptocurrency, and through this process create a currency that is able to reach a broad market, including people who have yet to participate in any cryptocurrency economy.
Steem is capable of handling a larger user base than Reddit. In 2015 Reddit’s 8.7 million users generated an average of 23 comments per second, with an average of 83 comments per year per user. There were 73 million top-level posts, for an average of 2 new posts per second. There were about 7 billion upvotes creating an average voting rate of 220 votes per second. All told, if Reddit were operating on a blockchain it would require an average of 250 transactions per second.
Steem has now proven that it can handle orders of magnitude more transactions than necessary to support an application like Reddit, and thanks to innovations like Hivemind and MIRA, it can do so without hitting scalability bottlenecks. Also thanks to Hivemind, users can expect the Communities features to rapidly improve over time because we no longer need update the blockchain itself in order to improve steemit.com and other Steem-powered applications.
Transforming Social Media
While many claim to be using blockchain technology to disrupt the social media landscape, with today’s public release we believe we are demonstrating once again that the Steem blockchain and steemit.com remain years ahead of the competition.
We would like to give a special thanks to the developers and users who helped us make Communities on steemit.com what you see today:
- @eonwarped: notifications UI, keychain, beta testing
- @quochuy: profiles UI, new design, beta testing
- @inertia: beta testing (!!)
- @jarvie: protocol support, beta testing (!!)
- @therealwolf: beta testing (!)
- @asgarth: protocol support, beta testing
- @good-karma: beta testing
- @howo: beta testing
- @gandalf
Honorable mentions go to:
The Steemit Team
Some API docs for communities:
https://developers.steem.io/apidefinitions/#apidefinitions-bridge
https://developers.steem.io/apidefinitions/#apidefinitions-broadcast-ops-communities
Hi Inertia,
Do you think a community would have their own customized URLs to prevent community confusion?
Like: steemit../s/food; steemit../s/foods
Instead of the current: steemit/s/hiv...123
I’m sure this would help with search engine ranking, plus when a community link is shared on other socials platforms people would get a better sense of what they are clicking on.
RE: Communities Have Arrived!
Thank you
I'll tell you my way of handling it until a better solution comes along. Say you have a URL you want to give someone:
https://steemit.com/trending/hive-100498
But just looking at the URL doesn't tell you anything. What I do is add the name of the community at the end, in the hash / anchor name of the URL:
https://steemit.com/trending/hive-100498#science
This is neat because if you ever type
scienceinto your browser URL later on, it'll find your community.damn that's brilliant thanks inertia
We can build this in by just using these #hashtag links suffixes in the actual main links we link to. This will eventually get added everywhere lol, or, we will all just be using steem browsers.
Bagaimana saya dapat melihat konten Tranding,Hot,dan New, apakah kita hanya bekerja melalui komunitas?
I guess that is good but why not do what they do on Facebook Groups with customized URLs and first come first served?
EXCELLENT idea!
thank you
idea!
I suggested this a while back, nobody seems to be able to do anything about it.
Oh.. what was the response you received?
Zero.
Cg
☹️
This would be a good idea. Funny thing is anybody can register for example "food" someday we can have 10k food communities? If you have powerful SP this will be your advantage as an admin. Are bots still around? 😏 I'm just trying out, might stay again here😁 good luck every one!
First come, first serve, perhaps.
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HOLA ME PARECE INCREÍBLE #SPANISH
Thank you very much !inertia!
Are there any big differences from beta site for the user?
Sure... Now there is one more filtering option. If this doen't make a change, I have no idea what could
(*sarcasm)
Are there any big
Differences from beta
Site for the user?
- whatamidoing
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
lol if this was reddit people would have a field day with a haiku bot , honestly, reddit users just need a @tipitbot style APi oauth login and were golden. its coming. ill have STEEMP on reddit soon when tipit adds reddit https://tipit.io
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one of the best indeed! <3
idea!
@inertia, help me please!!! I invite you to check out my blog. I write original articles, but I get fined by bots. Why?
For all the grumbling, Steemit has seemingly become a very viable Reddit competitor, overnight! Gonna be really interesting seeing how this all plays out.
I just got on Reddit and it seems epic. I'm really interested to see how this plays out for Steemit 🤔
reddit is garbage. Especially with how they go overboard with the censorship, hiding subreddits, and disabling peoples accounts just for upvoting certain posts that they consider 'bad'.
You know what, after many fruitless attempts to contribute to different reddit threads and being blocked by 'anti-spam' filters I give up! 🤦♂️
you probably only had to confirm your email
Yes, I agree! I just started on Reddit, I have been on Steemit for a little while and got sick, so I was in the hospital for a while. When I returned to the #Steemit [platform it has completely changed!
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It seems like finally, a revival is coming to Steemit Inc
Very enthused and excited to be playing with communities. I’ve had a blast since last night and my mind races with possibilities!
2 things...
The bug on mobile wherein no distinct link to the “friends” feed exists needs fixed ASAP! I’ve seen this causing confusion for a number of people.
And... does the Steemit team have an eye on the cross posting feature implemented by @steempeak and is there the possibility of it becoming a part of Condenser if it performs well?
we'd love to see condenser support of cross-posts maybe @quochuy has seen the need as I know he does lots of upgrades to condenser
I thought the same when I saw your new feature.
https://github.com/steemit/condenser/issues/3721
Let me know if you need more details. Maybe we can make this better if we work on it together 😉
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Heya Bryan! I made an Ithaqa community, seemed like a good idea? Have you made a comics one already? obviously I'll join
Friends Source:
steemit.com/trendy/my .... left menu "My Friends"
Great to see Communities out there after this long time.
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Justin was 4 minutes inb4 :) Love how he's got hype and marketing down.
You gotta love his moxxy, next he will be the King Of Spain.
News Just in.
HAHAH! Good one!
Gotta love the puns, Just In time. The Just In Times.
lol
you people are funny sometimes , when i signed up steem was over $7 and you were talking about communities ... to me it looks like you just pulled something from the shelf you were keeping in the cooler for a special day but
progress is better than none
so how do i prevent someone from stealing my tag ? where's the howto?
HAHA, like he did anything to get it out now when it has already been beta tested for last three months.
Good marketing though :D
7M of his followers on Twitter now know about steem. Better than me. I don't even have Twitter account.
I really need one of them again
exactly.
Also has the right hahahha
Lol! Take credit as often as possible.... Maybe if can sell Steemit every week, we would have a crazy good feature schedule!
If you find one, please let me know! That's what I came here to find out!
Congratulations to all steemit users and steemit developers now we have better steemit platform I think everyone should encourage and appreciate steemit developers efforts to create a more efficient steemit.com website
Its really nice to see new communities feature on steemit.com and now steemit looks more developed and improved platform after today's updates nice work keep it up
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there's a significant glitch in searching !
nothing comes out to the searched result !
make quick fix plz 💙
I saw the Steem search bar error Thursday. No results on anything. Some hours later. It was working. Oh, now, it is not working again. I wonder if they're still using Google. The search engine thing on Steemit.com has been better, generally, I think, than the one on Busy.org which appeared to have only allow for searching for usernames and not for posts, comments. You can at least use Google, Duck Duck Go, or other search engines, to search for Steem related articles, etc, at least for now.
yup !
thanks 💙
wish the steemit search sys get well soon :)
It is working now.
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We're loving the community features, and ours is flying, thank you team.
Problem. I am not able to post using Steemit. Any suggestions?
OK I think I found your problem...
When you start putting in the tags and you type in hive-100504, when you type in the - this message pops up below the tag line
This message will not go away until you clear out the whole post and start over.
I copied the post, cleared it, then pasted the post body back in and redid the title and tags without the hive- in it and it will let me post it that way I think....
Ah, go to the communities page and click new post and you will post from the hive, don't use hive- tag you will be on it by default.
Just did a couple tests posts, it works.
Thanks so much for your help Bud! I will try again for the third time.
Yay! It worked!!! Thanks again! Hugs!
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Wow! Thanks, Justin Sun!
He did it :)
Is this the real life? Or is it just fantasy?
Right? hehe Steemit 2.0 here we come. No more reddit for me in the near future
:D
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😎🤣😁
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Dear Steemit Team,
I appreciate your hard work for steemit community and blockchain itself.
but it’s very hard agree with your opinion in terms of your idea of what we should focus on and we should have focused on more up to now.
I think that the blockchain technology itself is not the priority that we Steemit team and many talented contributors should have focused.
We Steem are not just blockchain or crypto currency. We are social media blockchain. That means we need members to join in our society and ecology with so much interests and make them contribute this community with excited mind.
So at this moment, please do not spend so much effort to technology itself. Rather that that, focus on the basic functions of social media such as good interactiveness and communication function appearance at least of the level of facebook and at the same time please focus on promoting Steem concept and the advantage of steem to general people, not to professional programming engineer. Maybe you need some specialist for this activities with marketing mind.
if I have some time, I will explain more and describe more detail in my blog as a strategist has had several years business plan and strategy experience and study.
This will remove all the bottlenecks inherent in a wide, yet slim-broaded community
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Holy shit this is so exciting!!! I can't wait to explore! 😃😍😃
The search function doesn't work!
Is this going to be fixed?
Excellent! I look forward to this new era of community co-operation/warfare! lol :)
Hi Steemit Team!
I see that there are many duplicate communities, such as; Food.
Will this be fixed or will users soon be able to set a URL name to prevent confusion?
Thank you and amazing work!
Are there any frontends we can use currently to interact with communities? How should I start?
Steempeak and Steemit.com both have Communities on them now.
It’s been interesting to try this feature out, seems like something I may enjoy.
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Love your username. Notice that nobody is gonna call themselves @facebookadventure lol.
In a less technical language can any explain the core different between communities and plain blogging block chain??
This will be deeply appreciated!
I hope I don't sound too naive!
To be honest, as nice as it all seems - and I'm sure it'll only get better - It's nothing so revolutionary on the surface, it just seems to be a re-jiggling of how the front end runs so it's more like reddit, when it used to be more like Wordpress.
The key is all the back-end stuff that they've been working on which, they argue, is far more powerful and forward-thinking than the likes of reddit, because it can handle more users etc etc.
However, the blockchain does only take on text and .json files, whereas reddit can take all manner of media by using the traditional centralised storage methods. So it depends on your priorities which determines how amazing or boring this is
Thanks a lot @mobbs for the detail submission.
Very appreciative!
Moderators can hide unwanted posts from the community feed :)
So basically they've added censorship
I don't know if it is censorship or customization. Is a group or community supposed to be the same as a public town square where nothing should ever be censored, hidden, blocked, deleted, removed, invisible, shadow banned, etc, etc, or should a Steem community be more like a private house where you bring in your friends for a meeting? So, should a group admin be like the house owner with the ability to rule the house and to kick out people or hide things in order to govern the conversation and everything within the given house? If the house is supposed to be public property, then no. If the house is supposed to be the private property of the admin, then maybe yes.
Beats the hell out of me... I can't even figure out how to use the thing since they made the "improvements." I have to write everything on Palnet now
I should probably try Palnet.
It at least works.
You can still view all muted posts. Anyone can create community and moderate it how he/she wants.
Can a community creator make some steem when others post in the community that a person creates?
He can if the post creator makes him beneficiary. But it's not done automatically (yet?).
I don't understand how all this works- I'm an old man- but it sure doesn't look like much of an improvement to me. Markdown doesn't go to Raw HTML anymore so I can't change to italic or bold. Can't use the quote option or headers. The search option doesn't work anymore, I can't even look up my old posts. All I can say is this sucks!!!
Thanks @cardboard!
The ability to moderate sounds like a good idea in theory to the extent that a group or community might be the private property of a given admin. That is assuming a Steem community were to be private property and not public property or some kind of hybrid. So, it is a debate between censorship and customization. Some people might say it is censorship. And some people might say it is customization. I see both sides of the debate. I like customization to the extent that it your thing you are customizing. A big problem can be found to the extent that a thing might be public and not private.
Nice
Thanks for the updates, until someone arrived who put the whole team to work quickly. In less than a week and we already have active communities, keep working.
If you think this development was done in a week, you demonstrate poor critical thinking skills. Communities have been in beta for some time, and were being tested prior to release. While timing is everything, the timing of communities being released does not reflect development effort in the last week.
I have been here for 3 years and since then they were being developed. So I know what I say. Hug
Hi @valued-customer
To certan degree I'm on the same page with @cristo. Even one of Steemit Inc. employee mentioned that currently things are moving forward faster. Part of me believes that we would wait another weeks before HIVEs would come out from beta phase.
Yours, Piotr
Good to know this is still going, after the "assassination" of STEEM price. I still love the project, very good ideas with potential future.
This is a welcomed development
Notifications not working as intended. Too slow and showing up way to late. Marking them as read takes 20 seconds ...
Try steempeak.com ;)
Try it out and learn about it, hopefully it's fun.
Glad to see communities finally arrive.
Its a nice first try but something just seems a little off but i can place it but i do like the notifications tab and what happened to the HOT sorting.
So Justin Sun is this powerful, less than a week and boom communities are here.
lol
Awesome! Great job, everyone. Can’t wait to see where this leads us!
This is awesome! It is indeed a great development.
If this could happen in less than 2 weeks, I'm anticipating more developments in less than no time.
Congratulations for the release, but even more for Hivemind which makes everything and much more possible @roadscape!
Well done team, so what's next for SMT now that the communities have been rolled out.
I'm glad Communities have been released finally. Good to see you here. I came as soon as I heard. Lol
Glad to see you mate
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Small bug report:
When I go to "all posts" and then refresh the page, it resets me to a different page.
We are very excited about this new development and very appeciative you guys paved the way to integrate the protocol into hivemind!
I remember this being talked about at Steemfest 2, so it has been a while. I really hope communities can bring people together around the topics they love and make Steem even more social.
Steempeak already supports communities too!
Got that runners' community set up yet? :)
Of course. Someone else created it. I am not sure we want every run logged in there, but general posts about running and gear would be cool.
I personally am enjoying the new feel
I started on steemit some years back but moved my focus to a different platform although still frequenting here. The communities already have made it easier for me to find individual interests and people.
The real plus for me though has to be notifications. That is an excellent feature and one i can see getting better as Steemit progresses.
well done core team
Thanks! We're loving the notifications too!
Thanks for mention! Exciting times ahead, we are also preparing our Communities integration on eSteem soon to be released.
Of course! Thanks for the help
excelente publicación, de igual manera soy nuevo en esto y quiero aprender mas y mas.
some very interesting changes!
Weldone to all steemit developers and everyone else behind this.
It's really nice to see that there is a community on steemit.com. however, I am yet to key in to this cause I haven't been able to access the bata site. I think I should give it a try once again.✌🙄
History in the making and I needed to leave a comment.
saying hi to myself in the year 2025! waves
also, join my introduce yourself community!
Fantastic job!! Sounds like a great step.
And the search function does not work??
Or are there simply not enough communities atm so it has no change?
The search function for the entirety of steemit has stopped working for me...
Great work! I'm a bit more excited about native notifications; can't have a social network without them, or else user retention suffers. Will we be getting Push notifications soon or do you suggest we build upon the new feature?
Thanks to the team for these new changes. Steem on and carry on. 💕
I can't deny that I have great emotion! Expectations seem to be very good for everyone. Infinite greetings @steemitblog