Improve Blog Feed - Declutter & Segregate posts
According to @penguinpablo 's daily stats about Steemit activities, there is a sharp increase of post, comment and resteem activities. There are more active users on the platform now. People are posting from multiple applications like steepshot, utopian, zappl etc. By the nature of the post, some of them are long and some are short(eg. steepshot, zappl etc). Many of them don't want to mess up their feed, so they create multiple accounts for multiple applications and maintain a main account for posting blogs on steemit.com.
Blog & Resteem
Some of the posts are really good that we wanted to share with our followers so we 'resteem' it. Few of them resteem posts because it is mandated by the 'contest' or 'challenge'. The resteemed post also appears in our feed. This clutters our posts feed.
When we visit the account page of any of our favorite author we get confused on what is their post and what is resteemed by them, unless you pay attention to 'resteemed' grey text which appears above post.
Suggestions
Here is my idea to declutter blog feed in steemit.com. My suggestion is to have an additional tab above the posts which will show posts from the author & resteemed posts. By using tabs, it will be easy for users to navigate between the blogs posted by the author and resteemed posts.
One tab should show only the blogs posted by the author. Next tab will display all the resteemed posts and another tab will display both blogs by author & resteemed posts(which is the current behavior now). Now we see the blogs and resteemed contents together in same feed with grey text 'resteemed'. Unless you pay attention to the text or author name/image, we can easily miss it.
I have created a mock prototype of how the tabs would look like if they are implemented. I've created separately for steemit.com and busy.org. The below screenshots and descriptions are provided for steemit.com, I'll share the same for busy.org based on users feedback.
In steemit.com
In steemit.com, we can place the tabs above the posts - where we currently show 'My Blog' heading. All the 3 tabs to be clickable and have a different style when any one of the tab is active. The active tab should not be clickable.
The first tab will display only the posts from the author, second tab will show all the resteemed contents and the third tab will have both the contents, what we see today in steemit.com is exactly what should go into the third tab.
The label/text for the first tab can be 'My Blog', followed by next tab 'Resteemed' and then the third tab as 'All'.
Conclusion
Arguments about the design are welcome. I've just used tabs to de-clutter and segregate posts. If someone has a better idea to solve this problem, they are most welcome. We are here to make steemit a better place to share ideas and our work. If you feel this is useless, then kindly comment that as well.
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors
Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by frames from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews/crimsonclad, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
If you would like to delegate to the Minnow Support Project you can do so by clicking on the following links: 50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP. Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.
You made a very nice contribution but unfortunately, we already received similar contribution (Link).
You can contact us on Discord.
[utopian-moderator]
Thanks for letting me know, I didn't notice it though I had searched for it before posting.
Even though the problem is same but the suggestion here is different. In the other post, they had proposed a button which would hide/show whereas here we have 3 tabs, something similar to twitter.