Update: Over 1000 followers, Discord Channel, Not Getting A Comment, Roadmap And Ranking By XP
1000 followers
The @photocontests bot is barely 3 weeks old and has just reached over 1000 followers. This is awesome people, thanks for the support! There are over 600 unique users participating daily in sharing photos and commenting on photos within the 52 hashtags. In total 2338 people have either posted a photo or left a comment.
Discord
The Discord channel has been up for a couple of days now and already has 145 members. Some casual (photography)chatting and questions, feel free to join. >>>click<<<
Not getting a comment from the bot and downtime
There has been a 2 hour downtime in these 3 weeks. I have resolved the reason for this issue. Any posts during this time will not be credited however, I do not have the code to do this.
Since there are many users sharing their content sometimes 2 users do this at the same time. As there is a 20 second delay for commenting on Steem my bot cannot always respond to everyone. When you do not get a response check if you have gotten an upvote, as this means your post has still been registered correctly by the bot.
Roadmap
What to expect for this project in order, my focus is on building a solid foundation first before I get into the fancy things:
- upvoting optimalisation
- statistical analysis of the data to adjust parameters to make everything as fair and fun as possible (for example, a lower penalty for missing a day on your multiplier)
- making a work around for the 20 second comment delay
- rebuilding the database (as I did not plan any of this ;p)
- using the the new database to host a website where you will be able to view your stats live
This is just what I can think out of my head for now. As time goes by new problems and ideas will arise. Also feel free to share any ideas or feedback, I appreciate it.
Community
I am still looking for ways to integrate the community more. This means I am willing to promote any services which add value to the photography community, feel free to contact me at either steemit.chat(@julian_k) or Discord.
Top 50 rankings bases on XP
| # | Steemian | Total XP |
| 1 | @maeva | 1429.21 |
| 2 | @axeman | 1273.55 |
| 3 | @nolasco | 1185.51 |
| 4 | @bradfordtennyson | 973.14 |
| 5 | @aurumv | 973.13 |
| 6 | @pixelfan | 964.22 |
| 7 | @vincentleroy | 926.47 |
| 8 | @vinceboisgard | 851.73 |
| 9 | @victorbz | 830.32 |
| 10 | @stevejhuggett | 775.27 |
| 11 | @exposez | 775.04 |
| 12 | @lovelyloon | 755.07 |
| 13 | @brumest | 742.47 |
| 14 | @karolisp | 722.06 |
| 15 | @jon24jon24 | 684.71 |
| 16 | @davidstrohmer | 671.65 |
| 17 | @perfectsense | 622.15 |
| 18 | @florian-glechner | 615.59 |
| 19 | @cakemovesmikey | 570.04 |
| 20 | @zirochka | 543.67 |
| 21 | @txatxy | 532.44 |
| 22 | @schmidthappens | 512.35 |
| 23 | @lostinhappiness | 499.42 |
| 24 | @paulnapo | 480.48 |
| 25 | @eikejanssen | 474.38 |
| 26 | @oscarps | 426.47 |
| 27 | @docdudephd | 412.69 |
| 28 | @edward.maesen | 394.60 |
| 29 | @claudiaz | 388.73 |
| 30 | @welcometonepal | 375.43 |
| 31 | @randypike | 373.32 |
| 32 | @ackhoo | 367.74 |
| 33 | @tim.clarke | 358.12 |
| 34 | @akashas | 356.55 |
| 35 | @matajingga | 356.05 |
| 36 | @kunschj | 340.29 |
| 37 | @ginga | 335.05 |
| 38 | @bigsambucca | 334.74 |
| 39 | @mcmonkey | 332.11 |
| 40 | @hangin | 329.27 |
| 41 | @markangeltrueman | 328.18 |
| 42 | @shieha | 324.69 |
| 43 | @mattniblock | 321.35 |
| 44 | @betterthanhome | 314.29 |
| 45 | @rajskij-sad | 301.67 |
| 46 | @angrysage | 295.32 |
| 47 | @kiokizz | 290.04 |
| 48 | @drawesome24 | 289.05 |
| 49 | @jctdesign | 287.85 |
| 50 | @ewkaw | 284.11 |
Very awesome and your top 50 people keep on giving amazing quality photographs!
Thanks @julian for the info. Maybe in addition to the normal daily contest we could run a weekly one, and have some more unusual topics such as "old and abandoned, photos of rope, photos of streetart etc". Or we have a competition where we have a photo which is only a partial shot and the the group get to guess what the photo represents, the winner/s get the SBD. Just a few idea to get people more involved. Thanks for all your hard work
These are interesting ideas, what about I sponsor and help promote it and if you are up for it you can try out what works
OK @juliank, why not, I will discuss it later today with you!
Keep up the good work! Exciting to see this growing.
Thank I will! Me too
Good job! @juliank
Thank you @marius19!
Glad to be with the community!
Kudos @juliank!
Glad you are part!
God bless!
Great work @juliank. This project goes from strength to strength.
Thanks, and also for continually sharing amazing photos
Congratulations on the first 1000th. This is just the beginning. Special greetings @zirochka, I'm a fan of her.
I agree, interesting to see where this is going to lead to
Steemit will become known as the biggest photographic community on the internet, and you @juliank will have started it! hahaha, and we are all here to support, partake and have fun.
thank you, @cranium, you make me blush :)
Your really steeming ahead with this project and it's very interesting to watch how a simple contest is developing into a type of App/Project/Community on Steemit.
Awesome job @juliank
And I just wanted to earn some easy money by sharing some photos on the internet 6 months ago, now are building a great photography community. Interesting how that goes ;p
I joined some groups on Facebook, doing this type of contest and some just in general for photography. Over time the effort going into it produces nothing except for some LIKES (Wow!) so I stopped doing the contests and just share in a couple of groups.
What is making this work, is the fact there are rewards in multiple ways increase Rep, Steem and Followers. Also on top of that is that it is World Wide which increases the appeal no end.
"If You Build it, They Will Come" or in our case take a photo of it :)
Thank you for doing a wonderful job. I enjoy hearing about the success of the photography community. I have met the nicest people just commenting and visiting their posts. I kept seeing your listing in comments and plan to become more involved.
Cool, I love to hear this. Looking forward to your involvement :)
@ juliank! Thank You for putting on this amazing contest. I am in Your rating. But the bot stopped coming to see me today, missed 2 posts, I'm worried that will not count my efforts...