New Steemit Functionality - Curation & Author Rewards Tabs! And next...
So I'm getting home from work and, duh, I open steemit on my desktop because... Steemit. Anyway, going to my wallet I'm now greeted by a new navigation bar:
Now I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but it is for me and I'll give you two reasons why.
- I'm tired of scrolling down to have a look at these rewards when I'm curious. They don't link out and while I can use Steemd.com to monitor this, it's ungainly on mobile and more trouble than it's worth.
- This shows that they're actively working on improving the experience and adding in functionality. This is one of those things that, in a year, we'll look back and reminisce on the old days when Steemit.com was pretty much a frontier with minimal structure.
Curation Reward:
Now you get a snapshot that will tell you how much steempower you've received in the last day, what your average is, and what your rewards were in the previous week. While this isn't exactly groundbreaking stuff, there are tons of hardworking Steemians out there who have an interest in knowing these kind of metrics, fast. For the regular users who don't post a lot of content, this will be less impactful but still an interesting curiosity to check on from time to time.
Author Rewards
Again, if you aren't posting then you can probably ignore this screen as it won't have interesting information for you. But if you're like the ton of Steemians here who post interesting content for the rest of us to consume, then this tab is going to be another wonderful stop on your daily digital commute through Steemit.
With this tab, authors will be able to more quickly gauge their performance by comparing daily/weekly averages to the content posted during that time. In effect, it's a shortcut so you can see what seems to be working and what isn't so well received. I think it's great because I've been developing my follow list as I get to see more and more content from various Steemian authors, and it's good to know they have a fast way of gauging the effect of their work.
Next
I think the next stop is going to be getting a link out button attached to the Curation and Author rewards line items. Kind of like Steemd does now, with at least two ways to link out back to Steemit.com:
Including this link out functionality on the Curation & Authors rewards pages would let us see the post much faster and without having to Steemjitsu our way there through the Post tab or through Steemd.
That's all Steemit, I was just excited by this small development and wanted to share the thoughts. Feel free to leave a comment and join the discussion to provide any other suggestions or just to express love for the new tabs
Prufarchy
Not sure why this belongs in the #craigrant category, but apart from that I'm glad you noticed the changes as I'm the one who made them :)
I actually wanted to implement your link suggestion too, but it turns out the data from the api does not have enough info to construct the URL, so there needs to be some changes either in the backend or in how post links are handled. It'll get added soon enough though.
A quick note about the weekly rewards: sometimes the transaction history does not go back a full week (because a limited amount of transactions are fetched), in that case I use the daily average to estimate the weekly rewards and the text changes to "Estimated x rewards last week".
Thanks for the quick note, and so much for your work. I'm a firm believer that this platform will eventually have all the bells and whistles and more, and I'm all in on the wait because I prefer quality over speed.
Now that you've finished that, what're you working on next?
Most likely I'll add the price chart to the market page.
I think it would have been a little bit better if they had just 1 reward button and if you on top of it than some popup shows that allows you to chose between curation or author reward.