Hi Steemians and dManiacs,

a month ago I introduced dMania on Steemit. dMania is an app like 9GAG on the Steem blockchain. You can post funny pics, memes or gifs. To learn more about dMania check out the introduction post -> Introducing dMania
Now the beta release for dMania is finished with a lot of new features. I hope you will like it.

SteemConnectV2

dMania now uses SteemConnectV2 for authentication. SteemConnect is a authentication and authorization service for Steem apps. It was created by the busy.org team in cooperation with the Steem team -> Learn more
The private posting key solution was just temporary and has a lot of disadvantages. Apps on Steem should not have access to any private user keys. With SteemConnect, dMania never sees your private keys. When you access dMania via SteemConnect, you grant dMania posting permissions. To grant dMania posting permissions, you have to use your active, owner or master key. Your keys are never stored on any server!

Some apps on Steem like busy.org and @utopian-io already use SteemConnectV2. The rest will switch to SteemConnectV2 eventually. SteemConnectV2 is a lot safer and enables a lot of new features for Steem apps.

The Chosen Ones System

Just a while ago, @elear introduced a new sponsor system for utopian.io. Utopian sponsors receive a share on every post and comment on utopian.io. The sponor system is genius. It allows everyone to be part and contribute to the success of utopian.io and receive a share of the rewards. Give @elear and @utopian-io some upvotes. It's a great project!

I have created a similar feature for dMania and I call it The Chosen Ones System.
So far dMania collected 25% of the rewards of any post on dMania. I am now reducing the share for dMania to 10% and give 15% to the dMania supporters. To distribute the rewards to dMania supporters I  am using The Chosen Ones System.
The Chosen Ones System selects three Chosen Ones from the dMania supporters and assigns them 5% of the rewards when someone creates a post or comment. You can see the selected Chosen Ones on every post on dMania.

To become a Chosen One, all you have to do is to delegate Steem Power to dMania. The more Steem Power you delegate, the higher your chance to become a Chosen One.
By delegating Steem Power, you are lending your Steem Power to dMania. The Steem Power still belongs to you.
You can un-delegate your Steem Power anytime.  The minimum amount to become a dMania Supporter is only 5 Steem Power.

Even if you only delegate 5 Steem Power, you still have the chance to become a Chosen One on a high rewarded post on dMania and get even more money back than you have invested. Of course it is better to delegate more Steem Power to increase your chance to become a Chosen One. Long time supporters on dMania will get eventually the exact percentage they have invested.

What happens with all the collected Steem Power?

The collected Steem Power will be used by the dMania bot to upvote posts on dMania. This will create a community where everything is connected. People who post on dMania receive upvotes from the dMania bot. dMania supporters receive a share when they are selected as Chosen Ones. They also receive higher rewards when they are selected as Chosen Ones and the dMania bot upvotes that post. When more people become dMania supporters, the dMania bot will have more Steem Power and can give higher upvotes to dManiacs. It's a win-win for everyone!

I will make it more transparent  how much you have actually earned as a dMania supporter in on of the next updates. I already have delegated all my Steem Power to dMania. You should delegate some Steem Power to dMania too! You will support a great project and you will get more rewards than by just upvoting your own posts. 

dMania Bot

There are already quite a lot of bots on Steem. Most of them use paid upvotes. You send money to the bot and the bot will upvote your post. The problem with that system is that the users are only are break-even or even lose money when they use a bot.

I used bots to promote my posts too. There are not many alternatives to promote your posts when you don't have many followers. The promoted feature on Steem doesn't really work. It's mostly used by ICOs and exchanges to promote their posts. Not many people look at promoted posts because of that. At the moment it is way too expensive to use the promotion feature.

It is really easy to create a voting bot. It's just a few lines of code. Any developer can create one in a few hours or even a few minutes when he uses an open-source bot. Some of those bots earn between $500-1000 a day!
Those bots don't bring new users to Steem and probably will only scare them away! They will get more powerful every day.
In my opinion bots should only use delegation and no paid upvotes. The users should stay in control and be able to take away the Steem Power from the bot any time they want.

With the dMania bot I wanted to create something better. The dMania bot is a friendly bot and is purely based on delegation. I want that you make more money with the bot, not lose money. There are no paid upvotes.
The bot uses the collected Steem Power from the dMania supporters to upvote posts on dMania. The bot selects 10 random posts a day from the Trending page on dMania and upvotes them with 100%. To get an upvote from the dMania bot, all you have to do is to get to the Trending page on dMania.

What's next?

When the beta release is stable I am going to promote dMania outside of Steem and bring a lot of new users to Steem and dMania. Of course I will continue to improve dMania and make it even better.

I have created a new Discord server for dMania!

Please upvote, post and comment on dMania to support this project. Every single upvote counts. You can contact me on steemit.chat or discord if you find any bugs or if you have ideas for new features. Please resteem and upvote this post and tell everyone you know who likes memes about dMania. Together we can make Steem and dMania great. Follow @dmania and @zombee to get the latest updates about this project.