Symbiont{s} | Ecosynthesizer | Major Upgrade (Create and remove proposals)

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Ecosynthesizer | Major Upgrade (Create and remove proposals)

Greetings,

We are excited to finally yet introduce another major upgrade to Ecosynthesizer.com, which would further add to the project's already extensive set of tools and capabilities. We have decided to work on a mechanism that will allow developers, POs, and any community member to create and remove proposals in the simplest and easiest way possible, based on numerous discussions with key members of the community and several witnesses. There are presently no other tools to create proposals on Steem, and the only other option available here is unmaintained and untrustworthy due to its owner moving to Hive.

We considered allowing users to create proposals via their active key at first, but we decided against it for security concerns. Instead, we chose a more secure solution, which we were able to achieve with the help of two service providers. SteemLogin which is currently provided and maintained by @futurewitness and @hightouch, in addition to SteemKeyChain which is currently provided and maintained by @happyberrysboy.

We also noticed that there were no filters for create_proposal and remove_proposal on the account page. Users can now use the filters on their account page with ease. We also added some practical restrictions to the creation process, though not all of them are enforced by the blockchain itself. These restrictions are:

• The minimum time frame for a proposal is set at 30 days,

• The maximum time frame for a proposal is set at 10 years;

• The maximum per day pay for a proposal is set at 9,999,999 SBD.

Aside from the ability to create proposals, we also included the option to remove them, which had never been done previously on an existing service. We considered creating a separate page for it, similar to the create proposal page, but decided to add a button to the table on the proposal page to allow users to use remove_proposal.

^{https://ecosynthesizer.com/steem/proposal}

The page to create proposals is pretty straightforward. But there are a few things that we would like to mention.

^{https://ecosynthesizer.com/steem/proposals/create-proposal}

1. The title can be anything you want, but as per blockchain rules, its possible length is limited.

2. Daily SBD is enforced to have a specific format (.000).

3. Permalink is the section of the link after the account name. Example: @user/my-first-dao-post- In this case, the permalink is the my-first-dao-post part.

4. Start and end time will be subject to the rules mentioned above, even though they are not enforced by the blockchain.

5. This is really important here. The person behind the creator account is the one who is going to pay the 10 SBD fee that is enforced by the blockchain. We are getting this value by checking STEEM_TREASURY_FEE. One other important thing is that on the Steem blockchain, several users can use the same title, such as my-first-dao-post. Thus, the permalink (post) that should be entered needs to be created by either the creator or the receiver.

6. The Receiver is the account that will receive funding if the proposal reaches the threshold and starts receiving funding.

With this improvement, we hope that the Steem DAO will once again become active and fulfill its original purpose. We are grateful to whoever is offering the services that we are now employing on our multipurpose block explorer since we are well aware that building a sustainable community is not a loner endeavor.

We are constantly trying to find and fix bugs. If you find one, please report it on our Discord server.

More to come!

Thank you all for your continuous support,

The Symbionts Team,