My suggestion to soften the annoying of @curie's repetitive posts
Few weeks ago @kevinwong posted his toughts about Curie and its criticism and one of the topics were the annoyance of repetitive trending posts. I made a reply suggesting publish not the same, but different cover images with the first 3 or 5 selected posts' pictures/illustrations. Using animated gif to put these images/headlines in a sequence (but the thumbnail would continue a static gif, the first frame I guess).
Now I had some time to make a draft of the idea and decided to test it here. I took @curie's today post The Daily Curie (26-27 Jan 2017) and picked from the first 5 listed posts the images and titles to design the animated gif.
When I suggested it @kevinwong liked the idea, I hope this animated gif draft could push and not dismay the change :-)
I believe this new improvement could also attract more viewers to the posts. Another suggestions would be skip the @curie's posts Introduction paragraphs that is already known for the frequent reader and also repeated in every time. It could be replaced by a tagline with a link to a fixed Introduction page or moved to the bottom of the daily posts.
I made the images of this gif in a shared public Google Slides file and anyone with a Gmail or Google account can copy and edit it to refine better or new versions. I exported each slide in png format and assembled as an animated gif using the free to use online site Gifcreator.
I hope the Curie's team and followers like it. I think it also could inspire other steemians with similar repetitive content to explore the posts image's as dinamic covers to arouse curiosity and catch more readers. Imagine if @screenname's Daily Tribune, @gargon's Proyecto Cervantes, @jdbry's Verse of the Day, and even @ozchartart, decided to diversify their timelines images too, the Steemit landscape would be less repetitive and more exciting :-)
Thanks and good luck for us all again!
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