SteemDev Forum on ChainBB. What It Is And How To Use It..
So @jesta created the start of the #steemdev-question and #steemdev-guide forum on ChainBB. First, let's break things down a little bit and explain the meaning and importance of this.
What is ChainBB
That question can be answered best by the creator himself, @jesta. Now that you have that covered, lets move on.
What are Forums
On ChainBB, forums are a way to ensure quality content shows up when viewing a particular topic or category. Moderators are able to hide or prune content that is obviously spam and of no value. This provides a concise method of discovering relatable content to your interests.
What is SteemDev
SteemDev refers to STEEM based developers. Very generic, and widespread. SteemDevs is a group that I have created to bring together these developers for discussion, brainstorming, and cooperative programming. We make our home in the SteemDevs Discord server. Feel free to come swing on by.
What is #steemdev-question
If you have a question, or are looking to provide answers to these questions, you should check out the #steemdev-question category. Here you will be able to find direct questions and issues users are having and provide them with some assistance.
I have heard that the wizard himself might even be watching this stream to find posts to promote.
What is #steemdev-guide
This category is the perfect place for you to share STEEM related programming guides and tutorials. Do you have some great walkthrough of starting a new React app from scratch and integrating with STEEM? Share it! This category should not really be for ideas unless they also have code and proof of concept supplied with the post. However, it will be up to the community to decide what they want to promote to the top of the forum lists.
chain b b .. frok my personal experience i think it need some modification i get problems while uploading pictures. ..
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Not sure. If you see an issue might want to report it at https://github.com/aaroncox/chainbb though
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nice post sir
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Thank to share.
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Good information I follow you plz help me upvote and comment my post
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Not a Dev but very intersted in this. Where would I go to eventually have some questions answered about how the beneficiary process is going to be set up? Also, when is the official launch of Chainbb?
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No idea when it'll officially launch!
If you've got questions, feel free to ask in the /f/chainbb forums (specifically a forum to talk about chainBB).
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Kool, see u there.
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This is a great development by @jesta. Not only for /f/steemdev, but also in general. I've been using chainbb for the last few days and it's such an excellent format to find interesting posts. I created a steem frontend with lots of filters so as to be able to wade through the crud more easily. But after using chainbb, I think my app is largely unneeded now. The only benefit it has over chainbb at the moment is being able to filter your 'following' feed, and change the sort order of posts.
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The follow feed is a mess for sure. What sort of filtering were you doing on it and what did you find useful? I haven't given much thought to the follow feed here on chainBB - I just know I don't really like it yet.
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The first thing I implemented (besides filtering by up to 4 custom tags) was to give the option to filter out resteems, so you could see only what the people you follow posted themselves. That seemed to be a common theme I'd read in comments about steemit over the past few months. The latest filter I've added (site wide) was by Reputation. So you can cut out posts below certain reputation levels. When you limit it to say 'above 50', the feed gets a hell of a lot higher quality. But of course, that's not to say that everything posted by someone below that level is crap.
I think the next feature I'm going to add is to arrange any particular members blog wall via the most common tags that member has used on their posts. If a member is like me, they have a couple of common themes they talk about (but which might be totally unrelated). In my case it's mainly photography, steemdev and basic income. I'm sure there's others out there who have different streams to their blog posts.
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Those are all awesome ways to look at the posts - glad to see you experimenting with this stuff too! So many people have asked for filtering out resteems so that's a welcome change. Then again, maybe they're just following the wrong people :)
Getting this sort of content filtering down is such a high priority. It's so disheartening to write something awesome and have it get lost.
Also- I really like the idea of tracking what a person talks about and using that to describe an account. That could lead to an area on the site where you could browse popular users looking by topic (when looking for someone to follow). Connect all those people that are into similar things!
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That last point is a good idea. I hadn't thought of that. Some food for thought. I'm more than happy if you implement this sort of stuff at chainbb, and I can unplug my app and focus on other stuff. As of now my app is only an aggregator, so to bring it up to a full featured standard I'd need to implement posting and voting capabilities on it. And improve the UI as well. Neither of which are things I really want to do.
Regarding displaying reputation.. Depending on which api feed you get your posts from, the parts needed to calculate rep may or may not be there. In my case, I'm using the getDiscussionsBy* api calls, and they don't include it. I had to do a "parallel" asynchronous series of calls to getAccounts for each author displayed.
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Just to add, I can't highlight enough how much better Chainbb is than steemit for finding interesting posts. It's become more of a pleasure to visit the blockchain again, instead of the flow of inanity in the 'new posts' feed on steemit.
Actually, while I've got you here, a couple of questions about chainbb... One thing I miss on chainbb is not being able to see the poster's reputation. Was that a conscious decision to try and allow posts to stand more on their merits than on the 'merit' of the member making the post? If so, I can dig that. The other thing I miss is seeing the expected payout value of a post/comment.
But other than that, I freakin' love it. :) I'm a forum guy from way back, so perhaps I'm biased. But I just think it's the best format for discussion.
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Thanks! Glad you're enjoying and I hope we see some more new faces.
Couple answers for ya:
This one just hasn't been added yet. I think the data already exists on the post so it shouldn't be too hard to get on the page. I might do something fun with it though and do some color coating, make people with higher reps pop out a bit.
This one isn't added yet on purpose. The database behind chainBB doesn't actually have up to date information about the pending payout, instead it has a cached value based on the last time the post was upvoted or replied to. So I could display it somehow - but I think I'd get more complaints about it being inaccurate than anything else.
Currently I think I'm going to rework how votes are displayed and show them like they display in the "Inbox" section, in the upper right of the title as a number. When you click that - I think I'm going to have that be the deep dive of post information. You'll be able to see who voted, weights, and current/pending payment information.
The thought behind the popup right now is that during the course of a discussion in a thread, the goal shouldn't be to distract the user with how much a post made, but keep that info easily accessible for those who want to dig.
Totally agreed, and I don't think many of this new generation of social media users realize it.
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The Discord Link doesnt work anymore :(
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@jesta SteemDev Discord Server link doesn't work anymore. Could you please post updated link?
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