Repository

https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog

This update adds some small but important things to the frog's websites and fixes something here and there. This contribution however is much more talking than code. I hope that's ok. As always: Score accordingly!

Delegators/Sponsors in the Hall of Fame!

Delegators are really important for this project, especially since we're still in the beginning and rely completely on the community's activity to generate the rewards. The higher the activity, and thus probably also upvotes for the story posts, the more rewards we can distribute in The End. I think it should be the other way around. I would really like to encourage some Orcas and Whales to share their Steem Power with the different frog accounts ( @the-magic-frog, @der-zauberfrosch and @grenouille and more will come!).

This way DECENT REWARDS for CREATIVITY resulting in GREAT CONTENT could be GUARANTEED(!) and therefore interest in the project and activity will certainly increase. This project lives from the activity of the different local communities!

To start incentivizing delegators, they now have a special place in the Hall of Fame, right at the top!

I'm of course also thinking about mechanics to reward delegators! The most likely scenario is that the pots for the storytellers simply get split, and whenever the rewards are distributed, a fair portion of them goes to the delegators! This update has highest priority for me currently, but I still have to think about the details!

Implementation

I first tried to fetch the delegators from the transaction history myself, which worked perfectly but I quickly realized that this would be very unpractical with increasing age of the accounts. So I decided to use @justyy's SBDS based API: https://helloacm.com/tools/steemit/delegators/

• https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/96c1d9de23f9be94af140cba9950745e4c34b46a

Prepare for the @grenouille and the french version!

We are finally ready to launch the french version of The Magic Frog! And with "we" I mean @helo and me. He translated everything to french, the website, the bot, the announcement post, helped with the development and since our nice talk yesterday, he has also proven to be a great inspiration for future developments.
There will be an announcement post from @grenouille probably later this day. But the first french story won't start right away. The german verison showed that it would really make sense to start with some promotion to attract the first couple of followers/participants. The first actual story post, initializing the story, will then be launched on Thursday.

However, I want the website to be accessible right after the first announcement but there was an issue. If there's no initial story post (with the necessary json_metadata) the website does not work. So I had to make some adjustments to show some sort of "Coming soon!" message.

Implementation

First, with some ifs here and there, I only made sure that at least the index page does not break entirely. But I decided that it might be much nicer to actually prepare the website, to hide unnecessary stuff and show a message at the bottom, asking to follow the frog.

So now, for all following languages we will launch (e.g. Russian and Chinese, hopefully) it will be possible to launch and promote the according website beforehand.

• https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/9762705e99f9ffacb1032dcef4bcadf21b0a4627
• https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/dc7d84f5f941b8e48f797577c4b12229785031f7

The devil is in the detail!

The like buttons for the comments now show the vote count.

• https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/ced6f2cccebf037a7b233165c199aa8f60daf6dd

And barely worth noting but for the sake of completeness...

• Get all posts, not only first 100:
  https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/3ac9a616514c4112debd449564196a8ebfa78391
  (Thank god I realized this today... :D)
• Small text update:
  https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/a49820ba75faca8c0fdef1f6bfa616f505a65aad
• Fixed german translation:
  https://github.com/mktcode/the-magic-frog/commit/12f536c8d85b6947c0aebe990be0afe5df11adf3

What's next?

Launching French Version

I think we talked about this enough... :D

Revenue for Delegators

Same here...

Wallet Integration

WIP! Coming Soon!

Global Pot

For an even more rewarding an also internationally connecting experience! Once a month!

Account Creation!!!

@helo came up with a brilliant idea for how to let people without a Steem account participate anyway and "earn" there own accounts! Proof-of-Creativity for account creation, so to speak. You'll hear about this in the future!

Stay tuned and happy storytelling!

_Visit:
the-magic-frog.com
de.the-magic-frog.com
fr.the-magic-frog.com