This suggestion is to cover 3 minor User Interface implementations which can be made to the Profile Pages of Steemit users for a positive benefit to user interactions on Steemit itself, all while not interfering with any integral functions of Steemit which may lead to complications.
They are very simple implementations which I believe any Steemian can agree with (let me know in the comments if not) and would positively impact the overall User Experience and User Interface of Steemit.
1) Separate Resteem Tab
This implementation is extremely simple to implement, while yielding vastly underestimated positive impact. With the current situation, any post that gets resteemed, it is injected in the user’s personal profile’s feed.
I'd say that it would be relevant enough a tab to be placed second on the tab list.
Many users are aversed to resteeming as would like their content to be congruent or not to drown out their own content with resteems of other users. If I come accross 5 posts today, which I sincerely feel deserves more attention, a grand total of 0 of them will be getting my resteem. I would not risk flooding my own profile feed with other user’s content and have a potential follower not follow because they landed on my profile and saw other people’s content and completely missed out on the content that I created.
I know for a fact that I am extremely averse to resteeming any post though I may very well want to and I believe the sentiment stands for most Steemians. It simply messes up my personal feed too much.
With a separate tab for resteems, the only change that would happen would be resteemed posts falling into a separate tab while the resteemed post is still propagated to followers of the resteemer just the same.
With this implementation, I can imagine myself resteeming deserving authors multiple times a day, but not before it stops being injected into my personal feed. With this implementation, I expect resteeming to be more common and for more good content to be found by a wider audience.
I cannot begin to count the sheer amount of good content that I have passed without resteeming simply because I would not let it interrupt my own feed.
2) Pinned Post
Pinned posts are apparent in very many platforms including Facebook Pages. We all have that one post that, above all other posts, you’d like anyone who may be interested in your content to see. This simple implementation would provide that solution.
There is an aversion to writing extremely high quality content on Steemit as it doesn’t take to long before your post, no matter how impactful in the moment, will be lost to wind and never to be seen again. This would at the very least, provide an additional reason for extremely high quality content to be created knowing that it may be pinned and stay relevant.
Or even an introductory post which lets user who are new to you know what you are about in it’s entirety of which they may be able to find right at the top of your profile page before they continue to any of your posts.
3) User Categories
This concept was first created by Pinterest with boards of which you could pin posts, which was relevant to your board. Instagram has a similar implementation called Categories, which acts in virtually the same manner.
User categories allows for the sorting of the often times mass amounts of posts each individual user has as is. Active users post an average of once every 1-2 days on Steemit. Spend no more than 60 days on Steemit, and the the nuggets of gold you wrote on day 3 will basically never see the light of day unless the odd person scrolls down your feed 4 pages deep and finds it.
The regular Steemian does not usually post on a singular subject all the time. More often, Steemians are posting on 3-4 subjects which interest them.
This allows for ease of other users to find content based on genres which helps other users find the content that you have posted which interests them, without having to sort through your feed of 3 out of 4 irrelevant posts to the user to find the 1 out of 4 relevant ones.
Categorizing Series
It is common-found on Steemit for posts to be part of an ongoing series of which may constitute quite a number of posts. Given the nature of how posts have a lifespan of about 3 days before all view stop completely, authors are more prone to segregate their content into smaller segments and post them as a series.
In my personal case,I am currently doing a 28 day water fast,of which I post about once a day.
I would very much like to have the option to link someone to a singular page where at the end, I could link to anyone who is interested to learn about my journey through 1 link which links to 1 page with all 28 posts, and not have to scroll down 3 pages of my feed just to find each individual day.
More In-depth Way to Share and Curate Posts
User Categories can also be an extremely effective means of curation of highly subject specific posts. This allows you, just like Instagram and Pinterest, to curate genre-based posts onto your own user categories alongside your own content, or separately, depending on your personal sorting preference.
Users can categorize any post they find in to any of their personal categories.
This allows other users to find categories which they cater to their specific interest and find a huge list of high quality posts on the specific subject.
There should no limit on how many lists a user may create, but of course, due space constraint on the bar itself, I'd suggest that a user may elect 3-4 categories to be listed on the bar and the rest to be accessible through a drop down menu
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What can I say, these are excellent ideas!
Thanks so much once again @celestal! I have quite a few more coming!
Keep'em coming!
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Dude, you're really on a roll. These are great ideas, that would dramatically improve the sorting of feeds, presentation of ones posts, and Steemit.
I have been also thinking about your post on the promotion feature all day.
I cannot overestimate how genius I think that idea is, and you've carefully considered implementation.
Have you had a chance to discuss the ideas you're presenting with anyone at Stinc, or witnesses?
I'd like to resteem that Promotion post, but it's too late. I wish there was some way to do that. I also think rewards need to accrue for, well, ever. As long as people wanna upvote it, they should be able to.
That's how copyright works, forever and a day.
Thanks very much!
i think the pinned post is the biggest request that steemit has heard, but it is not on their priority list since it is not an essential feature. The resteem should be the pinned post. Technically the same thing effect. now if you could categorize your postings.... PRAISE THE LORD.
Wow you got here quick!
Seriously though, it is an absolutely drop dead simple implementation.. I really would not understand why they would not apply it!
That's actually a good suggestion as well.
To this point.. I am going to delve way deeper. I think it has massive potential and would like to cover deeper into what I believe are the possibilities with post categorizations.
I might write another proposal this week!
what do you think, i actually work? come on man!! haha jk i need to get back to work :(
Awww hahaha! Thank you very much for dropping by and for your generous upvote! I really appreciate it!! :)
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Great ideas. This convinced me to try out Utopian as well.
Thank you very much!
That's great! Utopian.io is really an amazing iteration of Steemit and I have decided to put way more effort into the platform! I have another proposal coming out on Utopian.io in a few hours!