Proposal: remove #steemit posts from the public front page/This Is Everyone's Last Chance To Get Cheap STEEM - Here's Why/Steembuddy on ice - But you can find steemit users with the same interest using Robomongo

Imagine what a new user may think if this is the  first thing they see. It’s not accessible, it’s not relatable and  (frankly) it’s boring. The average attention span for a modern-day human  is 8 seconds (1 second less than a goldfish). We have a very limited  window of time to create a first impression and capture new users. Terms  like WAVES DEX GUI, multi-authority permissions, and DPOS Consensus  Algorithm are intimidating. This is not a knock on the articles  themselves, @furion, @good-karma, @kingscrown, and @thecryptofiend are  some of the best minds on Steemit and should be commended for their  contribution. I am simply asking the powers that be to consider removing  a tag from the default front page for non-registered users.  Take another look at the image above, now imagine if, instead, new users saw this:

Or even this:


Which is more appealing to the layman? Music, Pictures, Fire, Illegal Brazilian Activity  or WAVES DEX GUI, multi-authority permissions, and DPOS Consensus Algorithm. I’m not proposing that we remove the Steemit tag, or stop creating  Steemit content, but that we simply filter Steem-centric content from  being part of our outward appearance. Let’s put our most appealing face  forward and keep our behind-the-scenes content behind-the-scenes. Once  we get them in the door, then we can show them which voting algorithms  to use or how to run a node in their basement.  Would love to hear other’s thoughts on this.

 

This Is Everyone's Last Chance To Get Cheap STEEM - Here's Why

First of all, what other social media platform are  you aware of that rewards the users for contributing (posting or  liking/voting)? I’ll wait, oh wait, that’s right, there is no other  social media platform like this. And what’s even better is the fact that  Steemit is still in the beta… It has a 200,000,000+ market cap in the  BETA! That’s absolutely ridiculous, did you know that if STEEM were to  take Ripple’s place (10,000,000,000), 1 STEEM would be worth right  around $40 USD?! I, among others, believe STEEM will be as big or bigger  than Facebook some day which would give STEEM a market cap of  $446,540,000,000 USD (if as big as Facebook). If that happened, one  STEEM would be worth $1910 USD!
 

The reasons why STEEM will be huge one day are endless. But one reason  that I’d like to point out is the fact that we have a developer, @furion  creating a video hosting platform on the STEEM blockchain. With all the  controversy going on with YouTube lately and the result in content  creators not making any more money, the YouTubers will need to find a  new home, a new place to publish videos and make money, and I believe  that place will be on the STEEM blockchain.
 

Please leave your thoughts and concerns in the comment section regarding STEEM, SteemQ, and Steemit.com
 

How to Vote For theprophet0 Witness 1. Click Here 2. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and type in my Steemit username - theprophet0. 3. You will be asked to authenticate with your active key, the main  key may work also. Once you have done that, you just voted for  theprophet0 witness! Wohoo, Thanks!
 
 

Steembuddy on ice - But you can find steemit users with the same interest using Robomongo

   

    After days trying to figure out how to develop a  MEAN app (Mongo, Express,Angular,Node) I have to admit that backend  programming is unfortunately not my strong suit and I have to put my SteemBuddy App project on ice for now. My apologies for setting  expectations to have the app ready by end  of this week, I did not expect that the last bit is such a hard hurdle  for me to overcome. If I ever decide to try developing an app again, I  will only write about it on steemit once  it is done and ready to use. Fortunately there is a way to lookup steemias on  SteemData, using the free MongoDB manager Robomongo To access the database, download Robomongo and login into the  SteemData Server using the credentials shown on the SteemData website.  
 

At this point a big thanks to @furion who created SteemData!

Once you signed in to SteemData, go to Steemdata -> Collections -> Accounts
This shows you all the various documents that contain information about Steemit.com users.


In order to find people with a specific interest, copy the following line between the curly brackets {} like shown below.

‘json_metadata.profile.about’:  {‘$regex’: “Cooking”,  ‘$options’: “i”}},   projection={“name”: 1, “_id”: 0,  “profile.location”: 1, “rep”:  1, “profile.about”: 1,  “profile.profile_image”:

The the word after $regrex is the keyword for the search.

The text after projection restricts the shown fields to name,  profile location and the text in the about field. In this example all Steemit.com users who have the word cooking or Cooking in their about field are displayed. If you want to lookup users with another interest, simply replace the word “cooking” with some other word.



This way you can easily search through the entire database of steemit users and find people with the same interest