Relax. Steemit's New Features Are Coming Soon!

in steemit •  8 years ago  (edited)


Profile pages, friending, following, chat - the list goes on. We've gotten used to a whole lot of features in our daily social media experience and many are wondering why Steemit doesn't offer such things. Well, here's some good news about that.


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In case anyone would like to help one of the new interfaces with their alpha testing, see Piston's post here.

I know posts go so fast on here nowadays, but I did a post about Ethereum Classic..
Check it out and please let me know what you think :D
https://steemit.com/ethereumclassic/@stealthtrader/is-ethereum-classic-replacing-ethereum

Willing to peek, but techie skills are..... Lacking lol

Mine too. Looking forward to seeing a finished product though. I'd even pay for a subscription... in steem dollars, of course :)

Thanks for the tip. Being a software test engineer in 'real life', I'll be sure to have a look at it! :-)

I have tons of experience designing friendly user interfaces, but I can't for the life of me get Piston running. I spent a whole weekend trying and nothing. Hopefully, after the project matures a little I'll be able to make some large contributions. I feel a little sad I can't do it now, to be honest.

Yeah, just gotta wait for the hardcore pioneers to do their thing.

I keep telling a bunch of people about the upcoming new features as come goes by... Good to hear about it from you, namaste :)

Yea this is just beta. If we are patient there will be so many addons that we won't be able to count!

I started cracking up at your reaction while mentioning edge :)

haha yeah. It's totally not Explorer anymore... so edgy.

Some of the features are already available in @jesta 's https://steemstats.com/

yup. this is good to hold us over while we wait... but I sure don't want to run multiple apps simultaneously for long.

Why couldn't they be one in the same? :)

Of course they could and I don't doubt that they soon will be :)

So exctied for the new features! Steemit is seriously the new Facebook.
I rarely use Facebook now!

well I did not down vote that... here is why I think I should have :
#WECANCHANGETHAT

Epic news guys. glad you not leaving us in the dark, and it will silence the moans. Thanks

Nice video, great work mate :)

Thanks!

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As always great content and updates @piedpiper thanks for the inside scoop

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The bigger question in my mind is what are the highest value features to drive user engagement and growth on the current platform. I believe its onboarding messaging, discovery, branding, and search (see here). Thoughts @piedpiper?

Yeah, the search seems to work well enough but I'd love it if we had profile pages that worked more like the facebook timeline and wouldn't even have to be connected to the blockchain. Messaging would be nice too but, as I said, the new interfaces can tackle this stuff. The Steemit devs have their hands full enough as it is and are probably dreaming of a vacation by now.

I did not see this post when I posted mine Steem has great potential for growths but new users have a steep learning curve and many who are used to writing at other places may be a little off put by the interface. I have proposed some enhancements. https://steemit.com/steemit/@iamwne/proposal-to-amend-steemit-interface I really think that some improvements to the interface are a great idea.

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Really Steemians? i made this post https://steemit.com/steemit/@birdcat/barriers-that-steemit-need-to-destroyed-if-steemit-want-to-be-part-of-big-6-family-google-facebook-twitter-instagram-tumblr 49 minutes ago got 4 vote while this post 25 minutes got 800$,,,,im gonna kill myself for sure, seems like STEEMIT world playing me

Instead of whining about other people's successes, why not work on improving your grammar skills and punctuation for starters? No one is playing you, you're playing yourself. Grow up.

Sorry,did I offend you?

Yes.

You're acting like a pathetic child. Come on now, have some self respect, and contribute instead of whining. Steemit isn't "playing you"-- try "every other social network ever" has "played you" and you don't even know how to react upon seeing one that doesn't. Happens to a lot of folks-- just snap out of it okay?

buddy I upvoted your article too. Don't be too upset I think this is more of a long term game, just keep participating.

I am just wondering, when we start using all these new features, are we going to be paid the same amount we are getting paid now or the amount will reduce.

This is very good news! I think that we steemit replace all social networks !

I don't need Steem to be Facebook - after all, we have Facebook for that. Or LinkedIn... But I do need Steem to provide a better way to filter content. I am a health expert and a political junkie. There does not seem to be a way for me to filter the content for my topics of interest. Also, I cannot gain a following for my brilliant posts because there is no way for others to selectively find my posts without remembering my username and typing it in all the time. Would it really help to post an introduction blog?

I would say yes that would help for sure ;-)

Please explain. How does an intro help if people cannot follow me anyway? If they like what they learn about me and recognize that I have useful information, what next? It all seems rather pointless.

I suggest to study https://steemit.com/trending/introduceyourself and learn how people introduce themselves successfully there - there is no guarantee on anything of course. But that category seems to be monitored by a lot of steemians for new exciting introductions...good luck ;-)

Oops. I finally took the time to figure out how to embed my photos and create a great introduction, but my main tag is introduction instead of introduceyourself, so I doubt anyone will find it. It would be helpful if the tag choices were organized somehow (other than random ones being alphabetically listed on the bar on the right when I am on my home page (which is of course not available to me when I am submitting a post), OR if when I started typing in the box, autofill choices were provided. Either of these options would help organize posts so that interested parties could find them more easily. For instance, is the common tag health, or healthcare? If I get it wrong, few people will find the post.

this is a great news, cant wait for it

Nice to see I'm excited!

were all excited about this @dking7334

YEAH THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

awesome background music provided by tool - lateralus ;)

good ear. One of my all time faves. :)

one of mine too! awesome work behind it both lyrically and instrumentally!
cheers

Can't wait, I'm hooked already.

They are making progress really fast and steadily. Can't wait for Steemit to get out of Beta!

41 views on youtube= 137 upvotes on steemit= $862 steem dollars. Amazing system. Milk it for all it is worth as long as it is here! :) Anyway I look forward to the improvements in making this a more functional social media platform. My latest post which deals with all the Ethereum classic fun can be found here: https://steemit.com/ethereum/@bitcoinmeister/lessons-from-the-ethereum-hard-fork-ethereum-classic-stands-for-something-and-much-more

Yeah, it would be nice to be able to see who actually watched it and who just voted blindly :/

That tells a lot about the voting algorithm unfortunately :/

Read several of your posts. Always a good read and look forward to post beta phase of steemit. Thanks for contribution as always!

Hi Piedpiper

Great info like always. I keep tryin to open piston but it always seems to be down. You guys got any luck?

If the platform is going to to mainstream we need stability.

Cheers,

It's still under development. Not available for public use yet. Give 'em some time :)

wow. Awesome. steemit is the present and the future

Chat will be neat!

bring it on!

Really cool, I was wondering when these new features would show up because it gets messy sometimes when one tries to multitask in here! :)

It sure does. :/

@piedpiper Like a bunch of people here I made a post about what I thought could be good ideas for the UI, any comment on this or on how to improve steemit in general? Some things are irking me and I wanted to share them but it's hard to find all the post in the same category even with tags :/ We need better filters. Here's the post https://steemit.com/steemit-ui/@mystis/how-to-improve-steemit-user-interface-brainstorming.

It sounds like steemit has a lot of potential , looking forward to seeing all the new features !!!!!!

i just joined. this is extremely exciting! i hope this gets more publicity cus this looks amazing!!

don't mean to be a grammar Nazi but could you change that Stemit in the post's body to Steemit please?
It's at ...many are wondering why Stemit doesn't offer such things....

Thanks a million!
A

Good eye! Thanks :)
(that would be spelling though, not grammar lol)

The thing I want more than anything is better mobile support. Right now there are severe functionality issues with Steemit on iOS browsers, including not being able to leave top-level responses on posts, and difficulties in posting in the first place.

Yeah, some solid mobile apps will be fantastic. Looking forward to 'em.

prepare for harfork!

Great stuff as usual from piedpiper, many "newbies" are expecting a fully functional platform based on the 20k posts payment hype but the reality is Steemit is still in beta and it has a long way to go with many key features still missing. And the scary thing is, Steemit hasn't gone fully viral yet, imagine what could happen if celebrities and famous youtubers and social media stars start to sign up...

Yup. It will be just like bitcoin in 2013 except even bigger because it's not just for nerds this time.

Good to know

Yeah, great news! :)

Thanks for the tip.

Thank you @piedpiper. Looking forward to this and connecting to more peeps. xo

fantastic, can't wait! so much potential!

Agreed. The best part is that the various interfaces will compete with one another for users. This is why I friggin love the free market.

would like to see the option for groups and business pages too

Ok, this is good to know. But do you already have an idea about what will be the purpose of Steemit ? Will it become something like Facebook ? Or something like Youtube, LinkedIn, ... ? There are many possibilities, I think. I even think you can make Steemit in something that combines all of these social media. Steemitbook, SteemitTube, SteemitIn, ... something like that. Anyway, it would be nice to know what your initial plan will be.

Looking forward to this immensely!
Steem would only benefit from such moves, it makes things much more personal, or not, your decision!

This information is given unless your stupid.

Or unless you're one of the thousands of newbies that just joined and have no idea what's going on and decide to that piedpiper guy 'cause he seems like a helpful chap... sigh

hey, thank you for that, you seem to have a wealth of knowledge - do you work for steemit?

My pleasure.
Not directly, no. I just invested in it and am trying to help new users become comfortable here.

Shit's getting exciting!

Chat is not good idea. We dont need next begging site.

Would have to be consensual, like facebook does it.

aaa :) this is nice idea :)

i agree, chat and notifications are lower priority. discovery, search much higher priority for engagement.

That's going to happen regardless. Seeing it already in abundance..... A real time chat I think adds to a posting that sparks more conversation.

Great to hear, can't wait!

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