RE: Coding In The Community - Feeling Optimistic
I like that you managed to gather in the comments people who are not indifferent to the fate of Steemit. It would be great to keep them together, but as we have already discussed, everyone has their own community and works there.
I liked the words @chriddi
we should stop blaming the negative we are not happy with and do everything we can to give what we can to support our Steem
I asked @steemitblog to comment on your previous post. After that, the comment SC01 appeared. I doubt these are interrelated, but the content of the comment highlights the SC team's interest in further development. Therefore, we are not alone, although we all together do not have a decisive word.
You have a chance to unite all the most enterprising, caring people of Steemit. This requires a large project, and creating a new frontend can be such a project.
Hopefully we can get the kind of backing that I've suggested but I don't know how easy it will be. If the Steemit team can upvote a proposal in the DAO. then with the community also upvoting it, it should get enough support to get going. And then if at any point it's felt that we're heading in the wrong direction, the Steemit team or community can withdraw their support and the funding can stop. It makes a lot of sense. Especially if there's a risk that fully opening up the DAO again will see the 2 million SBD disappear.
Sorry for my pessimism, but I don't think the Steemit team will give you access to that money. I think you can count on upvotes from steemtsurator01 and the support of all concerned people in Steemit.
Ha ha - I thought I was the pessimistic one 🤣
I don't see why they'd leave it there if we could find a good development that the money could go in to.
What is your next step, apart from celebrating the holidays, of course? Will you create an proposal? I will gladly support it. I just need a little bit more power of my voice to put your proposal on the first place 😁.
I'll start off by trying to find a free HTML / CSS layout that looks like it will work well with Steemit. I've found this site which has a few designs that could work well (I'm searching for "Free HTML / CSS news templates"). Once I find one that I think will work well, I'll download it and make sure that there aren't any obvious errors in it (a lot of them come with bundled JavaScript which is poorly written).
I'll then segment it into separate components that I can write some code around so that the page can get automatically generated from steemchiller's API and then I'll do that. I won't try anything too clever just yet but once I've got that working as a "proof of concept", I'll see if we can get it in front of the Steemit team, possibly along with some milestones or something to see about some funding. I expect them to be cautious with this but hopefully it will get support. If we can get the financial support required, then I can commit more seriously to the project 🙂
That is, you do not need to install a virtual server and engine. With the API, you will receive data from Steemit, and the template will be replaced on the user's side. Did I write nonsense?
Some correct - The API will give me the data from Steemit. I'll need to host a website (with domain name) that will take the data, modify it and make it look pretty.
Hopefully, I can find some free hosting - if not, I'll probably ask somebody that I already know is running some websites to host it for me. Getting a good domain name and reliable hosting is something that I can worry about at a later date.
I think that this shouldn't take very long to do when I can find the time to do it 🙂
I can help you with that. I have paid hosting, where I posted three ridiculous sites. I will be ashamed if you see them, but for the sake of such a project I am ready for anything :)
The hosting has 5 GB of free space, of which 775 MB is occupied. There are no restrictions on the number of hosted sites. There is a limit on the load on the server (5%).
If you are interested, contact me :)