TravelFeed dApp: Introducing a Menu for Curators
Until recently, the TravelFeed curation team was using our own Discord bot to curate posts. This involved looking through posts on a Steem frontend like steemit.com and then pasting them to Discord and adding reactions or chat commands to perform curation actions. With curation moving to our dApp and the existing solution having some problems, the demand for a new curation solution within our dApp came up. With the new solution, logged in curators can curate posts directly from travelfeed.io using a menu only visible for curators!
Repositories
https://github.com/travelfeed-io/travelfeed-io
https://github.com/travelfeed-io/travelfeed-curator
New Features
PR #41
A "star" indicator displays the curation status of a post. Unlike before, posts that have received an honourable upvote are now indicated by a half-filled star in the top right:
If the username in the cookie matches one of our curator's usernames, a click on the "star" icon opens the curation menu:
The curator can select between five different curation actions and is then asked to confirm. The menu and confirmation dialogue both use elements from the Material UI React framework.
Upon confirmation, a custom_json operation is broadcasted to the blockchain through Steemconnect from the curator's account:
Python script
This python script streams the blockchain for valid custom_json operations by authorised curators and perform the selected action with the @travelfeed account, e.g. leaving a comment or resteeming, upvoting and commenting on the post:
As with our Discord bot before, the script also checks the blockchain stream for posts tagged with "travelfeed" and leaves a comment if they don't meet our criteria (min. 250 words in English).
Planned features
Currently, the curator status is determined from the username returned by Steemconnect and saved in a cookie. As soon as our API is integrated into the frontend, the user role will be obtained from our database upon login and saved into a json web token returned to the user and saved as cookie. Instead of defining curators manually within the code, users with the role "curator" in the JWT will then see the curator menu.
Eventually, instead of using custom_json operations, curation actions will be performed directly through the API, but this is not a priority at the moment.
Looks like travelfeed is getting great development iterations.
Regarding the curation script, it might be good to check if the post is already voted. From my experience, you may need to process same blocks from time to time, and there is a chance that the bot may upvote the post even if it's already voted.
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Thanks for the review! Duplicate resteems or upvotes are not an issue since an exception is thrown which is handled if there already is a resteem or vote with the same percentage, the script checks for duplicate comments though.
Thank you for your review, @emrebeyler! Keep up the good work!
Nice! There might be quite a few curation groups who’d love to use something similar :-)
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We already received a request by another community to build on our code base, it's all open source :)
I had a problem in the past that every time I posted a blog with more than 250 words I received that comment to use a minimum of 250 words. I don´t know why it does not work anymore. Also, I asked to review it again I never got any answer.
Is it because I always write in 2 columns in 2 languages?
With the new system it's no longer necessary to reply with
!review, all posts that have at least 250 words upon review will be reviewed automatically, including posts that received a comment about needing 250 words in English. If your post appears on travelfeed.io, we will consider it.The language of the post is detected automatically, e.g. if there are 500 words and the detected probability of them being in English is under 50%, the post would receive a comment. This works fine with languages like Chinese, but not with German since it is too similar to English. Receiving a comment about needing at least 250 words in English does not have an effect on the posts being reviewed as long as the post has over 250 words in total (in any language).
cool, thanks so much for the quick answer!
Thank you so much for this Julian, this makes the life of a curator much easier.
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