CONTEST : REVIEW STEEMNOW.COM

Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing well? This post is my contest entry to the Steemnow review competition by @klen.civil. I am new to the Steem Education community, and this is my first article in this revered community. I am glad to have found this community as I share a keen interest in education. I consider myself a lifelong learner, and I look forward to learning a lot from this community. Today’s article is a thorough review of the website steemnow.com. I will try as much as possible to explain the functions of the various tools that are accessible on the platform.

Steemnow.com is a website designed by the user @penguinpablo. The website has similar functionality to those of steemworld and steemd websites because it provides data on steem user operations and statuses. These data include statistics on daily rewards, latest upvotes, curation rewards, recent posts, author rewards, and many more. A snapshot of Steemnow is shown below. The corresponding data belong to @klen.civil's Steem account. It will be our case study for this review.

On the first look, the website contains quite a number of tools. Hence, we shall closely consider each tool and its essence. The website has been established as a Steem user account information generator. Hence, it is befitting to first analyze the user selection feature of the website, which is categorized as Settings on the platform. Without this feature, the website significantly loses its purpose. A screenshot of the settings section is shown below.

The settings tab has three options: username, node, and theme. The username input space enables users to enter the handles or usernames of the Steem accounts they wish to seek information on. It must be noted that the respective username must be typed without the “@” sign. Next is the node option. This permits users to select their preferred Application Programming Interface node for the data query. Visitors of the website can choose between the steemitdev API or steemit API. This option is particularly useful in terms of connection troubles on the website. The last option is the theme selection tool. This tool grants users permission to switch between available themes of the website. There are four themes available as of the time of writing: Hive, Hive Dark, Steem, Steem Dark. For any configuration on the settings tab to take effect, the save button must be clicked afterward. The screenshots below show the various themes.

The next feature is the Daily rewards tab. As denoted by its name, this tool gives information on the earned rewards from Curation and Authorship. It also presents data on the aforementioned fields from the previous day. This helps users analyze the trend of their rewards. In the image below, @klen.civil's daily curation as at the time of writing was 0.750SP, and the author reward was 0.292SP. The previous day's numbers for the same two fields were 0.949SP and 23.518SP respectively. This shows that the user earned more the previous day compared to the current day.