Contest For Steemit Frontend. Content Discovery In Steemit - 100% Upvote. Total 3K Bounties Available

in steemit •  7 years ago  (edited)

Utopian.io rewards Open Source contributors for their hard work. We have quite a few bounties available if you did not notice and many many things going on.

There is a LOT of demand regarding Content Discovery on the Steemit frontend. Many users complaining about the Trending page becoming useless. Lets fix that!

We are proposing a 100% Utopian Bot Upvote bounty for the designer/s and developer/s who can create the best working solution to fix the trending page on steemit/condenser. Plus Utopian is running quite a few development streams you could be interested in, for a total of 3K bounties to be delivered.

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Steemit Trending Page

If you look at the trending page you will most likely see the same contents over and over, simply because the more SP you have the more likely you will be there. There are accounts who follow different threads, others focused on the same thread, therefore making the Trending page not appealing for readers having different interests.

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Lets Fix The Trending Page

Utopian.io is running this contest to find designer/s and developer/s willing to provide a working solution to make content discovery on the trending page easier and more appealing.

The winners will receive a 100% Utopian Upvote, worth more than $300.

Utopian is for collaboration, so if you are going to work on this with more people, post one contribution only for the design and one contribution only for the development, then split the rewards and mention the people involved.

If You Win

The Utopian upvote is not about having only a big reward but it is also about going to the trending and show your work to the big Steemit community. The reward is a small portion of the benefit you are going to have on the long run if you win this contest.

Rules

  • If you are willing to participate to the contest, write in the comments your profession and what you are willing to do. We want to promote collaboration.

  • Only push your contribution in Utopian once the work is done. For the design means when the layout is ready, for the development when the PR is submitted. We cannot guarantee the PR will be merged but it is up to you to convince the Steemit team to do so ( @sneak could be the right guy to ask for some suggestions ).

  • Once done place a comment about the work completed in this post.

Ready? GO!

3K Bounties in Total

If you have not noticed yet we have quite a few development streams and bounties in place.

The Registration Flow - 1000 Steem

We got 50K liquid Steem from Steemit inc. to create accounts directly on Utopian.

@noisy is on that for the actual account creation.
@samrg472 is helping with the APIs.
@nelsonm with the design.

There is a 1K Bounty just for the registration flow. Get in touch with these guys to collaborate.
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@elear/utopian-got-50k-steem-from-ned-to-create-accounts-lets-build-the-registration-1k-steem-bounty

The Utopian Chat - 500 Steem

@cryptoctopus has provided a bounty to create a chat in Utopian. This bounty is still looking for the right Dev. 500 Steem available plus an Utopian vote if you post your contribution on Utopian.

The Utopian Chrome And Firefox Plugin - 1000 Steem

We are also working with @stoodkev on an implementation for Utopian in Github, using a Chrome and Firefox extension. 1000 Steem available for this bounty. @stoodkev is also pretty busy on the Utopian Bot, so lets join!

Better Bot - 500 Steem

We keep improving the Utopian Bot over and over again. @stoodkev, @scipio and @jedigeiss are on it, trying to bring this also to life: https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@scipio/how-to-solve-spam-on-steem-introducing-userauthority

What Else is Going on?

  • @dougkarr is working on the Utopian Video that we will use on the Kickstarter campaign and to promote Utopian outside Steemit

  • @nelsonm is redesigning the entire platform and creating the mockups for Utopian V2 and the presentational material for the Kickstarter campaign

  • We are working with @thecryptodrive on a better management for delivering rewards to delegators and moderators. A bounty will be soon available

Thanks to @Freedom

With our surprise @Freedom sent 5000 SBD that will help us a lot for the bounties and for marketing Utopian outside Steemit.

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I'm a software developer mainly using SQL, Java, Oracle, and JSPs.

As a hobby, I use bootstrap, javascript, and jquery. i'm also familiar with python but prefer javascript because of node.js and npm. i also am familiar with mongodb and have used it to build an inventory system.

I'm interested in working on the Trending Page but need a front-end designer for the UX.

One of my solutions was is regard to voting bots and promoted posts....Why not put the posts which have paid for bots to upvote them into Promoted, and leave the hot page as organic.....Better yet, let's incorporate eyeballs and comments into organic trending...

Bot users will find out how to obfuscate bid process. You see, bid bot users pay for the first page at organic hot or trending.
They are not interested in fenced page otherwise they would use promotion.

And market will fill this need eventually.

markets and organic quality are two different things.

i'm just telling you what will happen. You can't fight the market by prohibitive and restrictive measures.

it's not prohibitive. It's not restrictive. It's called filtering.

We can do filtering, but we'll have to work within the market context. Filtering vote bots won't work unless we can identify vote buying efficiently.

With the current system this would have to be very crude. However SMTs and communities might make that easier.

I like the idea of separating (bid)bot votes out, super interesting to think how that shake things up!

This is noted.

@stellabelle, I have been following you for some time now since I joined steemit.com last October this year. I even saw that sort of parody video of yours regarding Steemit being uploaded on YouTube. Have read some of your written publications on Medium as well.

And I tend to be in alignment in your key ideas regarding some of the most critical aspects governing the Steem community including the creation of an AI overseer that is not easily threatened by Whales. #makesteemitgreatagain

Yes, Let's make an AI responsible for dealing with abusive whales....yeah, I am still for that idea..

I will help you in any way possible, even just for support. I can do some design stuff..let me know how I can help you.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Hello @stellabelle. Thank you. Yes, actually a layout design will do. Which things go on the right and which things go on the left.

My thought here is "before I even click that 'trending' text, what am I expecting to see?" And then just 'wow me' - that sort of thing.

Another approach is, to minimize clutter. Remove what shouldn't be there. I'll create a github page for this and put suggestions there for organizational purposes.

Yes, i really like your work so far, and I am def. a fan. Maybe ask fabiyamada for design work as she's very good and fast too

Thank you, Leah. I'll get in touch with fabiyamada.

Also, let me just say 'thank you' for leading me to @paulag. Your post Did You Know You Are Mining STEEM With Your Mind? led me to the group and just felt right.

oh, great. I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know. I like your attention to detail and high quality contributions.

I can create UX, I use html, css and css3, can i use you as your team

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Here is my proposed solution: https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@sirrius/proposed-new-section-method-for-seggregating-posts-starting-with-the-trending-page

I think that the problem with the trending page is not so much about the layout, but about content diversity and discoverability. I give far more details and layout adjustments ideas in my post.
What do you think?

Nice contest! I think it is a strong concept this Utopian especially with the way the rewards are structured.

Let's Fix The Trending Page

Let's Fix The Trending Page

Let's Fix The Trending Page

Nice

What are the requirements for the design?

You made the requirements as long as you can come up with a good UX solution. But I would advise to this in collab with a frontend dev to understand the feasibility

I see, thanks!

Maybe fix promoted while y'all awesome people are at it :) paying for promotion should put posts in the trending or hot pages depending on size of promotion payment. This would reduce demand for voting bots

I like your thinking here!

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  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

I have an idea for Content Discovery that doesn't involve the trending page directly but rather a way to funnel the kind of trending material you would want into your feed.

What if you create Focused resteem service based on different topics. Ok you are probably already about to leave hearing the word resteem, but just listen for a bit.

The problem today if you follow a resteeming service is that everything that is sent there get resteemed. That means number 1 it's A LOT of post that will drown your feed. Number 2 you are perhaps interested in only 2 percent of the topics posted there.

This creates a problem where people pay to have their post resteemed and the promise of exposure to thousand of followers. The fact is that it's probably only a few hundreds of real people that might possibly see the post and they are probably going to be in the same boat as you hoping to be found by someone a little bit higher up in the Steemit ecosystem.

So let's see how it might look if a focused Resteemed service is made. Lets make an example. Resteem Focused Steemit.
So the rule is that everyone can send in their post if they think It is good enough. The cost would be 1 Steem dollar. Each day only 5 people are choosen and resteemed. This means that you might pay 1 SBD but not get resteemed, but if your content is good it can be choosen and resteemed.

Now hopefully there will be a lot of people following Focused resteem Steemit. Because they are interested in this topic and they want to see the best content themed Steemit, which is unbiased of how much SP the person has that wrote the post, but instead it's based on the quality of the content.

OCD is already doing a great job to find and bring up good content to the Surface. However, the content is mixed and not focused. And thus we might not want to follow it.

With this kind of set up u could choose to follow a theme based account that will funnel the kind of material you want to your feed while in the same time it allows fish of all sizes to swim onto your feed as long as the material is good.

I like your thinking!

I think some communities (or content hub accounts) do resteem winning/best articles - I think these accounts will be fighting over being the 'go to's' in time, if they are not already doing so :)

You are right soon enough people will realize the benefit of doing this themselves and make specific accounts for it

First of all, this is a very good initiative and demand of the most steemit users. Following is just my idea, not an implementation plan:

Trending algorithm can be improved by implementing different upvote options other than reward/flag such as like, dislike, controversial, innovative etc. Also, filters can be used to find trending posts based on those parameters (vote options), similar to reddit's controversial such as the most liked, disliked, controversial, funny. A single criteria may not suffice all the needs of the users.

A blockchain solution can be possible for the above idea. For example, a fixed 1 cent vote for like/great/happy/funny, negative 0.05 cent for dislike/anger/sad, 1 cent for controversial/neutral. A user will have 10/20/30 (perhaps assigned to him/her based on reputation) such votes per daily regardless of SP they hold.

People sometimes do not vote even if they like the content due to limit of their vote power (VP) or already exhausted VP. But with these extra VP, posts can be discovered in numerous algorithmic ways using ML/AI, such as most liked, disliked, funny or controversial post.

I am not sure how other than blockchain similar voting options without any reward that can be implemented.

Kudos to future developers :)

that sounds good!!! I like it!:D

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

sorry I don't do that vote for vote, follow for follow thing, plus, I'm not here to win, just to provide my idea.

Hi everyone! Here is my design proposal:

I made the whole explanation in this post: Fixing Steemit Trending page - Design. It also contains ideas on how to actually select what posts to show.

I hope you find it usefull! =)

i only know visual basic.. not so helping. 😔
what can i do know just supporting from behind. 😎

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I would like to take part in fixing the Trending page. This time I would want to submit a design/layout. I already have a few ideas about this, mainly because I already thought about this problem before. I am a front-end/back-end web-dev.

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Professional backend dev (PHP/SQL) experienced in REST-API development here.

Im not interested in money but in creating awesome open-source code.
If I can help anyhow, write ma a mail to [email protected]

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Am a php/ mysql developer not a professional yet but I think adding up a script that gets post to trending page based on SP by category can help.

A great golden opportunity....not to be missed. Pull up your shocks ....

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Wow this sounds awesome. Yes Steem is expanding, good news for investors.

i can do many thing as i can write articles and photography ... wanna know would you people accept this type of work ...??

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Trending page becoming useless.

It IS 100% useless, I never visit it. Actually, I think the same about the Feed, I am following too many people, it's a mess, I can't use it.

My suggestion: FILTERS. Yes, let me filter (customize) that mess in some way, so I can use it.

My suggestion: FILTERS. Yes, let me filter (customize) that mess in some way, so I can use it.

Woww..... great opportunity. Lets join this platform ...

Let the trending posts depend on what search words are trending

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Sounds great, I'm waiting to see what and how it will be
Thank you very much

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

I'm not good at designs or anything but I support you guys. Good luck to the participants. I'm sure it all be great work.

Before a script is coded, one question for developer is what is good contents?

Maybe an algorithm type of feed? hmmmm

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

great post

I would like to have a @damla on the "A Special Thanks to The Moderators" list. Thank you..

Thanks for information

Oh menh,, wish i could contribute would have love to 😢 😢 😢 but i don't have knowledge of developing codes and all dat, damnnn

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@elear what about those people who are artist or photographer?? How they can pay their part in this revolution??

I only know is create a Log in system using VB.. but my support is 100% behind utopian-io

Recently, I posted a proposal to allow to filter the trending page by multiple tags. This doesn't solve the issue with whales floating at the top, but it would give users more control over which content they get presented.

i'm not a developer but there are so many interesting news. I'll be waiting for it.

Congratulations @utopian-io!
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Just started following you I do not know much about open source because I am pretty much a novice with computers and don't understand coding but I like steemit and am willing to try and contribute with posts and simple things like research or spreading info to more basic users. Anyway I am trying to add whatever value to the platform I can so please feel free to let me know what if anything I can do. @utopian-io

Idea on Improving the Trending Feed

I came up with a formula and posted about it a couple of weeks ago. It probably could be improved upon.

I'm a web/app developer. I've worked with PHP, jQuery, JavaScript and sql. I haven't looked into Steemit's code yet.

Utopian-io

wow very good news to me
to be winner mush have a good talent

greetings from @kupi
thank for share @utopian-io

I'm not a designer but there are so many informative news

good post

My $.02: I agree with rating posts based on actual views and comments. Filters would be great but I see a huge problem that creeps in with tagging - for example, we have trending tags "photo", "photograph" and "photography" - all designating the same kinds of posts but essentially splitting one category into 3. While autocomplete can be limiting because people are then unable to add new tags, there has to be an amalgamation of tags in popular categories and possibly even a larger taxonomy of tags rather than the current alphabetical system

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I am not a designer, neither a developer, but I wrote a post with a possible solution. Perhaps someone might be interested to collaborate on it. https://steemit.com/steemit/@hoodaim/conflict-of-interests-upvotes-vs-flagging-is-there-a-solution

wow.. thank you for your post

I wish I had more time but I am working on my master thesis now. Good luck to everybody! Stay motivated!

Your post has been resteemed to +144 follower by @afm007
Thanks.

Being a Minnow, I feel so small within an ocean dominated by Whales. I have witnessed first hand how insignificant our posts are. This is because we don't have the oil to run the machine.

Despite this I am still holding on to this platform hoping that someday a miracle will happen inside the Matrix. I have come up with a suggestion though in order to eliminate the appearance of shit posting everywhere which are very ugly looking.

I can't do anything to help or enter this contest. I will however upvote this post 100%. I strongly agree with the hideous state of the trending page. It is pure nonsense and very bad for new users to join Steemit and then see the same stuff over and over and over until they quit. I support this change. I will also follow this page and support the all who enters with upvotes of 100% as well. Thank you and Cheers to a better Steemit!!!!

I am a designer I am working on front-end design of the trending page!! yay!

I have a suggestion: Better Trending Page for Steemit

good news ....
thanks for sharing

very good project ..

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

I'm a software developer mainly using SQL, Java, Oracle, and JSPs.

As a hobby, I use bootstrap, javascript, and jquery. i'm also familiar with python but prefer javascript because of node.js and npm. i also am familiar with mongodb and have used it to build an inventory system.

I'm interested in working on the Trending Page but need a front-end designer for the UX.

Is anyone having trouble accessing the utopian.io website?

I've been trying for about 72 hours and SteemConnect just does the perpetual spiral.

Peace.

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