It's been more than a year since the last significant UI update in Steemit (or Condenser, that's how the front end part it's called). So I've been pleasantly surprised this morning when I saw a few changes.
Let's take them one at a time.
Blog
- font family change across the Blog section
- font colors for the active part of the theme (the blue became a bit more electric)
- small user avatar displayed on top-left (consistent with other changes across the site, more on that in a moment)
- reputation gets displayed in a more contrastive and consistent way
Feed
- tags have been moved on the left column
- same cards as in Blog, with more prominent display of user metadata
- new column on the right, with links to Blog and Wallet (reminds me of some three columns WordPress themes)
Cards versus List Display
There is also a choice between cards (with the featured image bigger) and list display on all the feed pages. Here's a card display:
And a list display:
The most consistent change is the display of the user reputation. As far as I know, this is a vanity metric (it just goes up when people with higher reputation than you are upsteeming your posts, but other than that it doesn't influence payouts). These changes hints at the fact that reputation may become a more relevant metric in identifying valuable content producers on the Steem platform.
All in all, good stuff. Really good stuff!
Congrats to the team!
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I especially like the small user avatar displayed on top-left and the higher contrast reputation. All in all, it feels a lot cleaner and it helps me to save time. I’ll have to give it a thumbs up.
Now if we can just some similar results for the posting and upvoting issues we’re experiencing.
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Yep, as they say, no shit.
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Yeah its good, I just wish it wasnt so slow that I cant post replies any more
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@dragosroua Yes the changes to the website are nice. That being said it is not always easy to get used to right away...........
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like other people are saying, the comment and upvoting part is not working properly
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I think there are quite a few more changes on the way between now and SteemFest... I'm overjoyed nonetheless ☺
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Wow. AND the website is loading and working again as well? wowiwoowi!
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I just noticed the changes this morning. Pretty cool stuff :D
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The changes are really nice and cool have to admit but i think the best part is that the platform is performing without major problems like in the last days!
Interesting point of view as well about the Reputation Level... i always thought it's very important and not only from the vanity aspect. I think Steemit is moving in the right direction!
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But even with this am still experiencing difficulty in commenting and upvoting.
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I don't HAVE a FEED...
this is what I get.
wonder why I don't have the same thing that you do?
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When I say "feed" I refer to the feed of posts under different categories: "People I Follow", "tags", etc. Sorry for being geeky :)
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that's ok
when I go here
and clik on 'feed'
this is what I get
I've not yet been able to get what you're showing.
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Click on the small square icon on the left of Links, it toggles the list and cards display of news.
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tried that.
doesn't work.
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I've noticed that the chrome / chromium browser plugin: delayed upvoter appears to be unable to highlight titles now but I think it still works. I'll watch to see if it activates on this post.
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Apparently, Delayed Upvoter plugin no longer works but we'll see it an update is to follow.
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Reputation is very important because it differentiate honest users and scammers.
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Nice, welcome changes for the UI. I still have trouble with the website's loading times, which have become a nuisance in the recent times, but at least there's proof of progress :)
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vey cool stuff @dragosroua ,,keep it up dude
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Oh yea I love this new design..
They fixed the lagging too 👍
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Yep, as they say, no shit.
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I am mainly working via steemitstage and I saw the two button on right site (my blog and my wallet) and tags on the left side bar. I thought it is steemitstage specific.
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Some really cool user interface updates but the bug in comment section is still there the same comment is going twice
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It always takes a while to adjust to a new look, but after a while we forget how it was before. I'm running the Steemit More Info extension that adds a few features, so I can't always be sure if they are part of the core system
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All in all a nice update. Enjoying the changes so far and can't wait to see what's next.
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All in all a nice update. Enjoying the changes so far and can't wait to see what's next.
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Oh yea I love this new design..
They fixed the lagging too 👍
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