Steem Bot Tracker - Log In with SteemConnect

Hello everyone! I'm back with some new updates to the Steem Bot Tracker website. The site has grown to around 3,000 daily active users and has been in the spotlight recently with some of the drama going on around voting bots which I will not get into here. I'm just glad that the site has been able to help so many people promote their content and grow their following.

Additionally, I'm always open to suggestions and contributions about how to make the site better, so please speak up if you have any ideas!

The site is now on a real web server - no more S3!

First off, though this is not a code contribution, I wanted to mention that I have finally moved the site to a real web server and it is no longer just a link to an Amazon S3 file. If you still have the old URL bookmarked you will see a message about it being moved and to update your bookmarks.

Other than that it's still the same old site that you are used to and you can access it by visiting https://steembottracker.com.

Log In with Steem Connect

I have wanted to support logging in to the site with SteemConnect for quite a while and I finally got around to doing it. Now when you visit the site you'll notice a re-organized top nav bar with a "Log In" button on the right:

If you click that button it will redirect you to the SteemConnect log in page and then back to the bot tracker website which will then show your account name in the top nav bar where the "Log In" button used to be.

If you click on your account name you will see a drop down list of options that you can do with your account:

See Your Bid History

As you can see from the image above, you can now view your bid history for the bid-based voting bots. This will show all of the bids you have submitted to any of the bots in the bid-based voting bot list within the last 1,000 transactions on your account. It will show how much was bid, to what bot, the weight and value of the bot's vote, and the ROI.

As a reminder - the real ROI from using voting bots comes from the increased visibility your post gets as a result of the vote. That leads to more followers and more organic upvotes going forward which, if you are posting good content, will lead to you earning good returns on your posts without the need to use content promotion services at all!

Also, bids that are refunded will also show up in the bid history and will say "(refunded)" after the bid amount so it's clear that it was received but there was an issue.

More new features coming soon!

Right now there's not much to the SteemConnect log in, but it's a first step towards adding some other new features which I think will be really nice and which I've been wanting to add for some time, so please stay tuned for those!

Thanks for your support!

As always I want to thank everyone who has helped and supported me in creating this tool. I love that it has been able to help so many people learn about and use vote selling services to promote their content and grow their following and earnings on the Steem platform. Please stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks!

Links to relevant commits:

• Reorganized top nav bar and added SC2 login/logout
• Added user bid history dialog

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