AutoSteem 1.1 Release - Updates and Features + Gallery
An updated version of AutoSteem is already online with many improvements. The new feature I like best is the new photo gallery in the photos view.
I had a very exciting time releasing AutoSteem to the Steemit community this week and so happy to see such a huge response!
How to Use Autosteem?
If you haven't tried it yet, or had any troubles with autovoting, please do give it a try now. My release post about it showing its main features is just below, with a video demo and otherwise link to the app, below that.
https://autosteem.learnthis.ca
New Features
Many people gave suggestions and some reported and helped me work out a few bugs as well. Here is a summary of some of the changes and what you can expect in Autosteem 1.1 now.
Options Window
The options window now masked out your posting key, so it doesn't show up in your browser. This is also set to tell the browser NOT to remember it for you, which helps secure it further. Thanks to @tuck-fheman for the first suggestion for this! 
Blog View Filters
The blog view now has a content filter for tag, alone with the other fields. So, you can type a tag name in to instantly filter out all the blogs in your view. Thanks to @everythink for this suggestion!
Photo View Gallery
The photo view is great, and NOW you can click a photo from a blog and view all of those photos as its own full screen gallery. Finally, a great way to view images from steemit at larger sizes!
It has a prev and next button so you can view the images from that author's story and you can even upvote it directly in the top right corner if you feel the need!
This works with every image and will view them up to full screen and you simply click to show, click to hid any image in the Photo View, its that easy!
Filter Save
The filter page no longer has a save button as it isn't needed. Everything in AutoSteem saves for you automatic and so any change you make to your filter is immediate. You can simply make your change and bam, it is already applied!
Vote Queue
First of all. A major bug was fixed with the vote queue and autovoting. So, it actually works now. Thanks to the help of @catto000 for testing this and being so patient with me. Awesome!!!
The Vote Queue has another improvement, by showing you a message when it is paused because you are maintaining your vote power. During this time, autovoting will stop and wait for the vote power to regenerate.
The vote queue shows a small icon now beside the actions. This indicates which vote is being checked in the background. It will simply move thorugh the list of votes, as it updates the vote, payout and comments counts.
Vote History
The Vote History button above the voting Queue, shows you any posts that have been autovoted. So, you can easily review what autosteem votes for you to go add comments or see it in more detail. Heck, you can even go remove that vote if you wanted to manually at each link.
As well, the vote history is now saved so when you reload the Autosteem webpage, your vote history is still remembered.
The vote history table now shows in the last column, how long ago the vote was made, instead of when the story was created.
Clear History
I've also add a button to Clear the history if you want to leave and come back, only seeing the newly autovoted posts. Makes it easy to review changes and new votes, similar to the views where you can clear the pages. 
Followers / Following Load Buttons
When you load the followers and following pages now, the button text changes, simply to know it is working and fetching the list. Since loading the tables, takes a few seconds, this simply shows an indication when it is working.
Bug Fixes / Minor Changes
- Autovoting had a nasty bug I fixed thanks to the help of @catto000. The min/max comments was not working correctly so votes were being cleared before the autovote. So, autovotes are fixed and working properly now.
- The console output (for developers) shows votes that are voted now
- The console output (for developers) shows votes removed from the vote queue
- Manual Upvotes were not working. Several fixes made to correct this
- Sometimes votes could get stuck in the voteQ if it was manually removed, but had just been autovoted at the same time before the list refreshed.
- Categories on the filter page have been renamed to Tags, for consistency.
- Votes in the vote queue now have the payout, votes and comments properly colored if a new vote is ABOVE your max values so you see it before it gets cleared. It was always coloring based on the lower limits before.
- Added some tooltips in the filters and voting page
Known Issues
- If you set your voting percentage below 100% but haven't gained enough steem power for the vote slider yet in steemit then your votes will not work in autosteem. You'll have to keep it at 100% voting power until you earn that slider.
- Browser Crash when large photo and blogs views have not cleared, gets a bit slow.
Roadmap / Next Features?
I've love to hear people thoughts on the next features to come. I don't have a set roadmap, but I do have lots of ideas. Here are a few on my list, please comment (if you didn't already mention them in my last release post) any of these that are of interest so I know. Also, add your own ideas for me to think about.
- tracking mentions from within posts (@mattclarke and @countrygirl, tell me more about what you want for this? Oh wait, you might not see this mention, haha! )
- vote following another user (up to X votes per day or voting power)
- Auto-vote my followers (with some limits?)
- Always vote authors list (skip filters?)
- multiple autovote filters with different settings / voting from each
- show changes to follow lists (who's new, who's gone) since last use
- autoload content without browser running (votes happen later then as well)
- filter out small images
Hi there! @prufarchy sent me to you to check into this, and I'm so glad, this is awesome! I'm sorry I missed the post when it first came out, I would have resteemed. Actually maybe that's a question you can answer for me, does it do any good to resteem after a pay period is over? Anyway, you have a new fan (follower ;) ) Glad to 'meet' you!
Thanks dreemit, resteems always help to promote something, doesn't matter when, so any resteems are REALLY welcome to get the word out for more people to use autosteem. It doesn't typically earn more money on older posts, but at this point, I just hope that more and more people will find and enjoy using autosteem!
Okay, great! Except I think I might be doing something wrong. I put in the names of authors, separated by comments, that I want to auto-vote, but it doesn't appear to be working. At first it was because I had my voting power set too high so I realized it was 'paused', then I lowered it and, still not voting lol. I'm sure I'm missing something, techie stuff and me are often adversarial haha!
What am I doing wrong @unipsycho?
I've had Steemit.com and AutoSteem open for quite a while today and noticed it missed upvoting (or queuing) a post from steemitblog and ats-david.
Is there a limit on the # of accounts that can be entered?
Do I need a space between each author? (ats-david, steemitblog)
Do I have too many? (currently 40+)
tuck-fheman. Doesn't look like your doing anything wrong, your filter seems OK. There is no limit to author list and spaces are needed. I'll have to do some more author filters myself to test this, you have everything setup correctly, I'll check some myself and let you know if I can anything.
OK I typed wrong. SPACE ARE NOT needed and they break the match. So, just put author1,author2,author3 no spaces. I've tested and it works fine here. I'll add in future release to handle whitespace on these filters as well if you use spaced, but keep em out for now.
Perhaps it was me after all. We had given access to Streemian and just now revoked it, in case that was causing the issue. Testing some more.
whoa!new update......so fast man.....keep up the good work :)
Well, I must be getting better at my skillz... haha
@unipsycho either the TAG filter (only, author and title appear to work) on ...
https://autosteem.learnthis.ca/#!/photos
... is not functioning properly or I'm doing something wrong.
Oh man, I guess I should have got more sleep before I updated the site. My mistake, I have fixed the filter, it is working for me now with all 4 parameters on the photos page. AND THE TAGS are filtering. Please try it again, it should be working now if you refresh your browser. Thanks for the report again tuck-fheman!
tag filter here too ... https://autosteem.learnthis.ca/#!/blogs
Bah, I'm just slopey now. I fixed the one page, it broke the other. HAHA. OK, each page has its own filter and just tested, tags, title, etc should all be filtering properly. You will need to relaod both pages to ensure the browser doesn't cache it.
Also, I tried using the Upvote button on https://autosteem.learnthis.ca/#!/voting and it did not upvote on several tries. Add to Queue works fine.*
*I just noticed that it did act as though the queue voted and moved the queued item into the history, but it did not upvote.
Hmm, no idea yet on this one, multiple tests here, no problems. Tried with another account as well, no problems. Can upvote from voting page or other pages.
An honor for me sir.
Good to see that you have switched to posting key man.
That never changed raymon, it always was.
Excellent changes. The only other request I can see is to allow for ascending and descending sorting.
Thanks ruben, yes, that is something I need to figure out (my first attempt didn't work) still to easily swap that when already sorted in one direction. Thanks for the feedback.
The filter is working well, but I don't think it is voting for me.
They all sound like great changes and additions. Top effort. I've been struggling with internet access until yesterday, so only just saw this (by searching for myself).
1/14/2017
I think autosteem is letting votes go through even though there is a limit to the time between votes.
I don't think autosteem is automatically voting. I will re-enter my private key and try again today.
It would be nice if only the posts that passes all vote criteria are seen.
1/15/2017
Autosteem is working well from safari on my phone. Earlier i was using google chrome on windows 10 and it didn't seem to autovote.