Steemit Community Discussions #6 - Steem Roadmap
The topic was the roadmap, which we went through and discussed. Here is the point-form roadmap layout that I used in the discussion:
Steem Roadmap
- High Availability, Scalable Infrastructure
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2
- Developer and Startup Friendliness
without having to learn new blockchain-specific paradigms or programming APIs.
- Lower Latency To Production (CI and CD)
automated testing of all new code in our repositories is 30 minutes or less, and
deployment in 1 hour or less to our staging environment, and 24 hours or less to end-userfacing
production systems.
- An Ethos of Deliberate, Reasoned Design
world's leading User Experience (UX) designers, we are refocusing our efforts on an extremely functional, discoverable, user-centric design that permeates all of the interfaces we build across the entire spectrum of web and mobile.
engage in the thrill of rich discussions.
--Service: Drag-and-Drop Image Hosting
easy-to-use, integrated image hosting service
--Service: Blockchain Data Microservices
providing stable and reliable service endpoints to deliver various blockchain and blockchain-derived data via standard HTTPS.
--Feature: Comment Moderation For Post Authors
post authors should be able to decide which comments are displayed on the steemit.com site below the content that they produce... would like hidden.
--Feature: Moderation and Community Namespaces
We believe that high-quality content and communities of content producers and their audiences are the primary driver of growth of the steemit.com site, and in turn the wider adoption of the platform and STEEM. To this end, we wish to enable many users to build communities in parallel around curating specific types of content valuable to their audiences.
“communities”, a special group into which others can post articles.
cosmetic features of a community’s profile page
- iOS and Android Mobile Applications
Our intent is to develop our mobile experience and build feature-rich, native applications for both platforms efficiently by sharing as much of the codebase as possible between the two.
- Steem Login and Signing Service for Third-Party Applications
signing service”, easily integrated by third-party sites, whereby such sites can request the performance of a specific action by a given user.
- Gamification, User Onboarding Improvements, and Feature Discoverability
too complex for new users
streamline and improve the experience of users during their signup and first dozen actions
-- Discoverability: Tutorial / Walkthrough
-- Gamification: Achievements and Username Insignia
Stack Overflow
-- Retention: New-User Prompts
user lifecycle management will be employed, classifying users into various segments based on post-tutorial task completions and achievements unlocked,
-- Discoverability: Status Bar
opaque information in the blockchain and user’s profile clearly understandable with measured use of bright colors and visually striking meters to encourage and reward daily participation
distill the hidden models of the functioning of the Steem Blockchain into clear, simple, visual indications that can be easily understood by all users
- Site Instrumentation and User Understanding
inducing widespread habitual use
making the site and applications as engaging, fun, and rewarding as possible.
- Design Language Overhaul
This is an ambitious undertaking due to the extreme complexity of building, validating, and
debugging rich, responsive HTML/JS interfaces that work optimally across many different
web browsers and our mobile applications.
Steem, The Blockchain and Platform
- steem.io: A Platform Dashboard
op-line metrics will be provided as simple, easy-to-understand charts, as well as machine-readable structured data feeds updated in real time.
- developer.steem.io: World-Class Developer Documentation
full list of public services and endpoints, officially supported client libraries and software, and API documentation with excellent example code to get brand new developers up and running quickly on the Steem Blockchain
- Officially Supported Client Libraries
Steemit has developed its own for JavaScript. We will decouple our client libraries from our existing applications, and will test, publish, and version them separately for easy re-use by third parties.
- Reducing Blockchain Account Creation Cost
An internal specification of these changes is in progress, and will be shared with the community when complete in a similar fashion to our previous consensus change proposals.
- Steem Blockchain Feature: Post Reward Sharing
request that third-party services could somehow generate revenue through their direction of new users to the platform.
Such a feature could also be used to enforce per-post revenue sharing between the author and a community into which the post is published, blocking posts without the requisite revenue split from being displayed in a community
- Steem Blockchain Feature: Multi-Chain Parallelism
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@krnel/subchains-and-multi-chain-matrices-for-massive-blockchain-data-propagation
a blockchain grows in size faster than the fastest available single processor cores increase in speed. The new architecture is a fabric consisting of multiple blockchains, one of which handles each distinct feature provided by the platform
Steemit, The Organization
- Physically Decentralized, Global Talent Pool
- Asynchronous Communication and Coordination
- Scaling Up
- Decentralizing Stake
funding the continued research and development of steemit.com, the Steem Blockchain’s first and best application, promoting and publicizing the Steem Blockchain and features, hosting highly available services for platform users, sponsoring conferences and community gatherings, and sponsoring undertakings to build applications and increase user adoption across the entire ecosystem.
- Free Software
Thank you to everyone who joined and helped generate a discussion. It was great! I hope you come back for more discussions in the future.
Here is the discussion for your listening enjoyment :)
The 6th Steemit Community Discussions, held on Wednesday, January 18th, between approximately 2pm-3pm EST.
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@krnel
2017-01-19, 8:31am
Great summary! Is the podcast on Itunes yet?
Dude that service is too lame. You have to have your file in an RSS feed. That means I have to upload it to my own site, and then generate an rss feed for it. Fuck apple. They're supposed to make things easy LOL! Uploading an .mp3 file... oo0o that must be hard to implement for someone to upload a "podcast". They want to force people into automated podcasting through rss feeds.
Well not going to happen with me at this point in time. Or maybe ever. The free hosts I use dont have RSS. And I don't plan on hosting it myself. Thanks for the feedback, but find an easier more practical way to get the podcast on iTunes, and I'll do it ;) All I want is to get an .mp3 online for people to listen to, not setup a whole podcasting rss. Just too much crap just for one upload to one site.
OK but you are limiting your audience by doing that. I agree it should just be a matter of uploading it these days. I think Apple have lost their way since Steve Jobs died!
Hehe, yeah "losing audience", oh well that's their choice as well. Clicking on another link and loading the .mp3 file oneself is harder than iTunes that automatically grabs it. But not everyone runs RSS feeds for their audios. I don't want to setup a hosting for it. If people want to listen to it, and given it's low popularity, I don't think that not having it on iTunes is actually limiting anyone at all at this point ;)
I hate how soundcloud forces you to download an .ogg and that's after you login to the site.
All I want is a simple downloadable mp3 so I can play it in the car, or share it with my friends..
Yeah, fuck Apple for designing a completely open and simple system where people can easily publish periodically-updated lists of mp3s to their users!
I'm pretty sure that's not what "force" means.
even soundcloud is easier
Yes the problem is Apple lock up all their devices so you have to do it their way or you don't do it!
RSS isn't "their way", it's just a machine-readable standard for letting people's devices fetch new audio files as they become available. There needs to be some format that you publish the "list of episode audio links" in, and they chose an open standard. If it were a binary plist (an Apple-specific format) this criticism would be valid—but it's not.
This is evidenced by the wealth of podcast clients and servers and publishing apps that use the mp3 file+RSS index that are not made or supported by Apple, and on OSes and devices that aren't Apple hardware.
I know RSS isn't their way but I think you have to submit podcasts in a particular manner to get into the Itunes store:
https://create.blubrry.com/manual/podcast-promotion/submit-podcast-to-itunes/
I've never done it myself so don't know how difficult it is to get listed.
Thanks to everyone in the live discussion. Helped me understand the direction of Steemit's intentions and abilities.
Thanks for the listen ;)
Very informative, thanks for taking the time to piece this together!
Welcome :) Glad it is of use to others.
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