KURE - A Community Platform and Curation Network Remedy for Steem!

KURE is revived! After 2 years of having stopped my own communities project, I'm done waiting for Steemit Inc. to come out with their communities solution.

KURE also stands for Kindred United to Reward Everyone. The logo design is in the shape of a caduceus staff, the symbol of medicine. It fits with cure/kure, curation, and was intended to be a remedy to aid in manual curation on Steem. The logo is mostly made from the Steem symbol itself, if you didn't notice ;)

I was developing a community-oriented website in late December 2016, with a first github commit on December 22, 2016! This is before Steemit Inc. announced their communities development plans or framework. I was ahead of the game.

In February 2017 I killed the project formerly known as SteemKURE because Steemit Inc. was "supposedly" going to be developing communities. I didn't want to waste my time making something that was going to be supplanted by an official version on the flagship front-end of Steemit.com. Who would use my app when Steemit Inc. had their own?

People told me I should have just kept developing it, because "who knows when Steemit Inc. will actually have it ready". I should have listened to them! Doh! With 2 years into the project things would have been quite far ahead by now.

The previous site was up with basic functionality for use, with a focus on helping manual curation efforts.

• Login through SteemConnect Version 1 (it had just recently come out)
• Creating a curation community/group/list
• Adding a post to a curation community
• Managing a community
  • Removing posts
  • Adding users
  • Removing users
• User roles
  • Owner
  • Moderator
  • Submitter

Here is a video I made on February 1, 2017, which showcases what it was able to do at the time:

The data wasn't on the blockchain though, it was in a database I was hosting. But it did many of the things that Steemit Inc. later submitted in their Communities spec, although for curation alone, not for posting content like Steemit Inc. was/is planning.

The former SteemKURE was developed in PHP and Javascript for the core functionality. This time around, KURE is in Javascipt alone, using Node and React. I had to learn more before getting started again, but it's progressing now.

The Likes and Views would be based on the platform stats, not the blockchain. That way the popularity and metrics are based on the curation community activity itself, not on the blockchain activity where bots are fudging an honest measure of the data.

I plan on adding the data for the communities to the blockchain via custom_json fields. And of course images, and more! It's starting off as a curation platform for communities to form around, and then will move on to authoring posts within a community framework.

I hope you like what I'm doing so far :) Feel free to make suggestions, what you like/don't like.

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Stay tuned, more to come!

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