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RE: [STEEMPEAK STEEM] Steampeak and the Community Architecture
One quick question @lextenebris
Can one post be part of few different communities? Or just one and only one?
And also if I subscribe then to some community and new publication will be posted, then how VISIBLE is this post on my feed? I mean - will I be at least notified?
Just wondering how real visibility will increase.
Yours
Piotr
Those are good questions. As far as I know, there has been no actual discussion of what the Community one to one, one to many, many to one, or any of that set of relationships will be between posts and Communities. Nor has there been any discussion about what the user experience will be for someone looking to consume content from Communities.
Which is part and parcel of my complaints about the process of design that has been going on. You don't start by figuring out how you're going to distribute tokens, you start out by figuring what the tools will actually do for users, and none of that has actually been done.
In an ideal world as defined by me, these would be the answers:
An individual post could only be part of one Community at a time. This is actually the most contentious part of this idea to me, because I can come up with reasons myself why a post might be applicable to multiple groups – but then I chant the mantra "you get what you reward" and I realize that the reward in the case of the one to many relationship between posts and Communities would end up rewarding shot gunning posts at as many Communities as you could reasonably hit and bots would be much better at that than humans. For 90% of the normal use cases, there is no reason for an individual post to not be associated with a specific Community – though I am open to counterargument in the main. It won't be a big impediment to people who still want to spam but it's a road bump.
Right now, we have absolutely no means of showing you what new things are in your feed. My guess is that the current vision is to simply dump it into the fire hose of your main feed, maybe with an extra tag which visually marks it as from a Community and not from the fire hose per se – and I suspect that is going to be insufficient. A reasonable design would incorporate the way to focus specifically on one Community at a time like a lens applied over your feed that filters out everything else, and if someone wanted to be particularly insightful and draw on design that really worked in the past, they might look at how Google Reader allowed you to manage an absolute boat load of RSS feeds and slice down through them. Allowing the user to create arbitrary folders/groups of Communities and/or individual users that they follow and allowing those to be used as lenses as well would be awesome and actually be useful for the user experience.
Don't forget the most important part about Communities in terms of visibility increase: they provide an ad hoc way for people who want to consume and create content with a particular subject focus to put and get their stuff in one place. If you're interested in, say, "3D printing," then you may sensibly search for "3D printing" Communities and look into them for good content. When you find one that you like, add it to your collection, and every time you pop in their you know you're going to get good content that you're interested in that is largely related.
Effectively Communities helps build a means of clustering content that is done by thinking human entities who have a higher than usual chance of being good at it.
Again, a reminder, I'm not getting paid to design the system so take everything you read above with a huge grain of salt. If I were in charge of deciding what is important to implement on SteemPeak, I would probably start with a lot more user-facing tools for filtering and keeping up with their content. Chief among them would be implementing a GNUS-like ranking system in order to give people the power to filter their feed and order it by what they think is most likely to be interesting/useful and couple that with a way to assign users and accounts to arbitrary groups visible only to that user (optionally able to be shared) to provide a little structure for those who want to go beyond simply ranking posts based on metadata and content.
Those two tools alone would be a massive help for users who want to come to the platform and consume content interesting to them. They would be completely overlooked in modern social media design, and so represent a selling point to attracting attention. They would focus on the user experience and making doing things better for the user – but have nothing to do with the blockchain or jiggling numbers in a database, so have almost 0 chance of ever seeing the light of day.
That's what I would do and how I would answer your questions, but how the people in charge of implementation would do so remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
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Dear @lextenebris
Thank you for your comment and I'm sorry for such a late reply.
And that sucks. Big time.
From what I've learned users can chose only one community to which post will be "connected". That will make it really difficult for those who would participate in few communities and will have to chose to focus on posting to one of them.
Let's say that I would write post about "Impact of blockchain on world economy" and I would like to post it in community related to technology, economy etc. It should be possible.
ps.
May I ask you for little favour? I'm not sure if I did ask you about it already or not (hope I'm not repeating myself).
Could you please check out also my recent post if you have few min and share your thoughts on questions related to concept of "introducing steem blockchain to businesses":
https://steemit.com/steemleo/@crypto.piotr/my-very-first-trip-to-switzerland-one-of-the-most-crypto-and-blockchain-friendly-place-on-the-planet-earth
Your feedback is always appreciated ;) And I will upvote most valuable comment with 100-200k SP coming from project.hope account.
Yours, Piotr