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RE: Steemit Needs: Please comment with your ideas to improve Steemit!! E. 2
Hey @barrydutton - great initiative!
My top three right now are:
- A resolution to the "NSFW" issue that allows people who want to experience NSFW to have everything here in all its glory, while still allowing those who don't want to see it to hide it.
- A posting interface that is really easy to use, so people can create awesome posts without having to know HTML/markdown. This includes the ability to upload images directly into the post (without a third party link)
- Curation guilds that allow the delegation of voting power from whales to minnows, where minnows can earn a share of the curation rewards from good curation efforts.
@barrydutton, like you I am not tech savvy, however I have become extremely interested in how steemit operates in all of its multi-faceted and somewhat complicated glory. @timcliff do you think item #3 would be a way to address the drop in user interaction, or is there some way in which it can be formatted to do so? I've never upvoted a post that I didn't actually open and read, and rarely do I vote and not comment, I think it's extremely important for the content creator to get feedback. Someone recently suggested placing higher curation rewards on comments as a potential solution.
Of course you are going to find an easier way to make awesome posts just as I am finally figuring out markdown, haha!
Great job in trying to deal with the NSFW issue. While I have chosen at this point to keep my own blog clean, I enjoy off-color entertainment, and so do many others including many like me who also keep their personal blogs family friendly (merej99 among them ;) I strongly believe in freedom of expression and frown on censorship. I have several novels that contains strong content that I might want to put on here down the line and I'd like to feel comfortable doing so. I would also want to warn people away who might be offended by it without chasing them from my blog completely since I will continue to post plenty of material that is perfectly safe for work.
And two things that have bothered me from the beginning--the inability to comment on old posts and the utter lack of incentive to vote on them, in fact to vote on anything over 24 hours old unless you are one of the handful of people that constantly trend.
I voted for you just now, I've been meaning to do it as you seem to be one of the most actively involved witnesses in the community and I really appreciate that! If you have any recommendations for other witnesses that I can look into I'd also appreciate it. It's a long list and time can be somewhat limited.
Thank you for the feedback! I am offline usually by 10 pm EST latest every night so I am just getting on Steemit now.
My hope is that a few of these posts can be looked at in one place, like I said in the post -- by the key people. I find these posts valuable even if just for the people scanning the newsfeed, browsing content to learn things.
Oh you are absolutely right, they are definitely valuable. It helps to know people are voicing their thoughts and especially that those like @timcliff are listening. And I know I learn from them :)
I love this idea. As Steemit grows, allocating voting power should be more diverse. Trails are good for curation rewards, but it centralizes VP on a few posts. New users will stop using Steemit if they don't see their efforts are valued here. Blockchain is not a selling point for many.
Thank you for the feedback! I am offline usually by 10 pm EST latest every night so I am just getting on Steemit now.
My hope is that a few of these posts can be looked at in one place, like I said in the post -- by the key people. I find these posts valuable even if just for the people scanning the newsfeed, browsing content to learn things.
Thank you for the feedback! I am offline usually by 10 pm EST latest every night so I am just getting on Steemit now. I always appreciate hearing from you Tim.
My hope is that a few of these posts can be looked at in one place, like I said in the post -- by the key people. I find these posts valuable even if just for the people scanning the newsfeed, browsing content to learn things.
Indeed :)
Nice list. Love all three.
Tim, you might look into why Steemit provides for the ability to hotlink, even when the hosting sites have put in place code to block doing so. Pixabay states clearly that it's not allowed. Many other sites do as well.
Here's a good example:
Shows up nicely, doesn't it? Right click on it and choose to show it in another tab (or copy the link and open it in another tab). Still looks good, right? Now strip out the
https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/(leavinghttp://www.smoothieweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/owl-made-from-fruit-496x479.jpg)and you'll see that hotlinking this image is prohibited. I know that folks are encouraged to use hosting services, such as steemimg, but right now Steemit is unknowingly hotlinking illegally.If you look at the link in your post, it is actually:
https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/http://www.smoothieweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/owl-made-from-fruit-496x479.jpgSteemit is actually not hot-linking to the smoothieweb URL. When you first create your / comment, it hotlinks once to pull the image into Steemit's local image server, and then after that it points to the image that is stored locally on the Steemit server.
So Steemit is hosting it?
That's interesting. In the RSS feeds from Streemian, the Steemit portion of the url is removed, so I thought it was hotlinking. It results in the RSS feed hotlinking.
Thanks for the tip. Maybe this can help me fix the layout issue I'm having.
Not sure if it is 'ok' but Steemit's links might be hotlinkable.
Thanks. Yeah, that might not matter, and I haven't tried. The RSS feed doesn't include them though. I asked @xeroc if he had any ideas. We'll see.
Thanks again!
What are you trying to make work / do?
Using Stremian's RSS feed to move articles to a WP site. I have Markdown JP on it to help convert the Markdown, but the images just aren't working well. Part of it is because of the hotlinking issue. But there's something else too (some images work, others don't, and I can't find consistency to the problem).
Anyway, if I could get the hotlink issue taken care of, it'd be a great step in the right direction. You just showed me part of the problem.... it's a great step. :)
Wlcm. Steemit is hosting the images if you are viewing it through Steemit.com. If you view through a non-Steemit website, it will pull the raw text from the blockchain. In those cases, technically those sites are hotlinking. That is not Steemit's job to prevent though :)
Yeah, I get it. Now trying to figure out how to make it work. Hrmmm.... Any ideas?