100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 17 - Communities BrainstormsteemCreated with Sketch.

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Time does fly on the blockchain but it is only two months ago today that Communities were officially launched on Steem.

That was only our initial offering but still many, many dozens of Communities have since been formed covering a wide range of topics from beer to poetry, and from alien art to urban exploration.

The first version of Communities had quite a basic feature set.

Now we are looking to take them to the next level, but we need your help.


The Communities Brainstorm

Many of you have used communities, and many of you are still using them.

We are sure therefore you will have ideas on how to make them even better.

We want to hear from you...

  • What new features would you like adding?

  • What existing features could be improved?

  • Is the setup procedure too difficult, or even too basic in what options are offered?

  • Do you find them easy to manage?

  • Are they confusing to use, or totally straightforward?

  • Would some form of contextual help system be useful?

  • Are there any extra features or facilities that would make it easier to promote your communities outside of Steem and to attract new members?

Please give us your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions. Post them in the comments below or better still make a post about them.

We will be giving upvotes for the best comments and posts.

A second version of Communities is firmly in our current planning. We are already working on a few changes that have come from previous feedback.

Once we have heard from you we will see what can be incorporated in Communities v2 and then firm up our development schedules.


If you want to see a new Community in action @danmaruschak has just launched the Steem Game Development Community…

Welcome to the Steem Game Development community
https://steemit.com/hive-126363/@danmaruschak/welcome-to-the-steem-game-development-community

If you are interested in developing games on Steem do join up.


We are looking forward to reading your ideas and suggestions!

Thank you,

The Steemit Team



REMINDER - The Community Curators Project

We have had almost 50 applications so far from people and projects who would like to be Community Curators.

The closing date for the first round is 21 April so there is still a day or so if you want to make an application...

  • 100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 3 – The Community Curators Project

https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/100-days-of-steem-day-3-the-community-curators-project



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The Communities feature is a real game changer for the Steemit platform and it has a huge impact on the way we interact, post, and curate for contents. The fact that a community leader can manage the contents in the community without affecting the rest of the things outside the community is very helpful.

Although the current features of the Community is a good starting point there are still improvement that I think will be beneficial to the Steem users.


What new features would you like adding?

  • I personally request for add a "forum" feature within the community. In this tab, the community members can discuss important matters within the specific community.

What existing features could be improved?

  • I would like to have a better catalog system to organize the posts within the community.

Is the setup procedure too difficult, or even too basic in what options are offered?

  • The setup isn't too difficult in my opinion however UI improvement would make the experience better.

Can't wait to experience any improvement with the Community feature. I'm glad that the Steemit Team is working on this aspect of the User Experience.

Thanks a lot for your hardwork guys!

I like the idea to add fora to the communities.

I like to see the presence of an experienced Steemian here.

Thank you for these very good suggestions.

The Steemit Team

Hi @steemitblog

First, thanks for the recent support!

Some ideas for communities:

  • Social sharing buttons on the community page.

  • Change Hive-1234567 to a marketable slug (name of community)

  • Make communities resource credit free. (an option to delegate to communities)

  • Option to categorize communities by language preference/sector (easy navigation)

  • The previous owner of Steemit had no idea what he was doing, therefore communities were marketed the wrong way. Now it is just used as a tag basically. There is no added value. UI is a big issue, also fast and hasslefree onboarding.

  • Change markdown (most noobs and people who don't blog often have no clue what HTML or Markdown is, KISS)
    Edit – Profile – blocknodes io – Page 2 – blocknodes io.png

    to something like this

#STEEM

Change markdown (most noobs and people who don't blog often have no clue what HTML or Markdown is, KISS)

Totally agree, it is important that it be done

Thanks! To attract the simple user it just has to be simple af.

Great ideas here. We are looking at all of these now.

Thank you

The Steemit Team

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One minor thing:

the community page should 'understand' HTML everywhere, also in the description. I tried to embed the link to the community Discord, but in steemit.com it looks like this (however, in SteemPeak the same code works correctly):



Thank you for this point. We will look at this now.

The Steemit Team

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Sounds good. :)

I have another minor suggestion, not concerning communities but the blog main site. I think the option to display my followers and also the accounts I am following in alphabetical order would very useful and easy to implement.
Sometimes for example I am seeking a certain follower but don't know the exact spelling of his name anymore. Then it would help a lot to know the first letter, if names were ordered alphabetically.

The order in Steemit.com is only from the newest to the older followers:



Furthermore if I click at "following" the next title is "Followed" - why not just "Following" again (or even better a whole sentence like "People you follow")?

And as we are here, I suggest you to read my old post about editor issues. Again SteemPeak (and also https://steemd.com/) shows my exact original HTML code when I reopen an old post, but in steemit.com the formatting looks weird: That was the article.

Thanks for these extra suggestions.

I created two issues on condenser's github following the release of communities. one two

They are really small issues, that can get fixed in <1 hour, and it would greatly increase the usability of communities.

Please fix them. When everything is working as intended, then you can think about adding more features.

Thanks for these - we will take a look.

The Steemit Team

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I would like the features where you can add categories in the community. For example in xpillar community, there are a category of art, photography, health and etc so it looks more organize and easier for the reader to go through the post in the communities.

good idea @cryptokannon

Thank you for this suggestion. We are looking to see how this can be done.

The Steemit Team

Why do you guys make these posts and never respond or interact with those who reply to your posts? I've made several attempts to kick start the Farting Community and I am always ignored. I even Made Justin Sun a Mod in this amazing community but theres never any interaction. Can I sponsor One of these Days of Steem and get some attention to my Community. Perhaps we can have a Farting Contest with you guys sponsoring it since you have a shitload of STEEM. I work Day and night on it. You guys have a lot of hot air so you can make some posts in the Farting Community here https://steemit.com/trending/hive-128773 . Thanks and remember, everybody Farts.

Worry not, each comment will be replied to in it's own "Day of steemit"post.

Dear diary,

It's already Day 17 of 100 Days of Steem and they were asking for help.

Now we are looking to take them to the next level, but we need your help.

That is not necessarily a bad thing as they should listen to the sentiments of the community in which they should have done in the first place. Before all of this fiasco and bad PR that happened, if they listened to the community, everything would have been smooth moving forward. But they didn't. So here we are.

Wait. Even if they will listen to the community now, who will implement the changes? Hmmm.

How about instead of brainstorming new ideas and improvements, you address one of the biggest issues with the Steem blockchain right now in regards to the broken state and constant forking... The Steem blockchain is forking several times per hour because you guys decided it would be a good to be childish and block some prominent witnesses who start a rival blockchain forked off of Steem.

You do realise as a result that those running Steem nodes are having a difficult time keeping their nodes in sync because of these issues you've created? This then flows on to instability within Steem-based dApps and it just reflects badly on the Steem blockchain as a whole.

Is there anyone competent left over at Steemit who knows what they're doing anymore? Evidence suggests otherwise.

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Hi @steemitblog team

Community launch is a great addition on the platform and it has given variety to users and content creators. I am not the owner of any community however as a user I see that there should be an on an option to report users to the owner or MODS. I see some users are adding low quality or plagiarized content and I understand that mods are taking care of it but if I come across any post which should not there then I should be able to inform them and it's their call if they find it worthy or not. If this option is added then it will help mods to find the post easily and make the community a better place.

I go through the various post every day to read then reporting any post will not take long to me but there is a possibility that mods might miss out if daily post volume is high. So my suggestion is to add an option where any user can report the post but mods can take the final call of course. Thanks.

Good idea! (Even if my own fora are so small that so far I am able to read every entry myself.)

Thank you.

Good idea, thank you.

The Steemit Team

Thanks.

I want to share with you the new community for Steem Game Development (in Spanish).

Quiero compartir con vosotros la nueva comunidad para el Desarrollo de Videojuegos en Steem (en Español)

https://steemit.com/hive-100517/@marcosdk/comunidad-para-el-desarrollo-de-videojuegos-en-espanol

That is great. Thank you for setting this up.

The Steemit Team


This is my proposal Communities Brainstorm



Thank you for this contribution - good ideas.

The ability to easily set beneficiary rewards for each community would be great. Also the ability to enable ads, and an easy way to have ad revenue share for each community would provide more incentive to build each community.

Thank you for these ideas.

Note. I haven't worked with SteemIt communities. I have worked on other platforms.

You might create tools so that web masters can embed the community in their site. For example, the person who owns example.com might host the community as steemit.example.com.

You might allow communities to have dedicated subdomains. The example community would have the subdomain example.steemit.com.

Communities that are external to Steemit might benefit from some sort of guest account structure. That way users of example.com who aren't members of steemit could still use the community on steemit.example.com

Very good ideas, thank you.

The Steemit Team

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I've talked with @hashkings about him helping with translations.

Thank you for the translation. And thank you for talking with @hashkings.

I'm still a bit busy at the moment but will help as soon as I can.

Thank you for these links. All good ideas to pick up on.

The Steemit Team

Hello, I have been actively sharing posts on the steemit platform for about 2 years. I am from Turkey and there are not many Turkish users on the platform right now. About 2 years ago; I discovered and joined a Turkish community that supported quality publications on the platform. I started making profits in this community, then this community stopped supporting. He stopped supporting. Then I started to generate revenue with @steemhunt, which is dapp on steem platform. I can say that the other Turkish community left because it was unable to earn any income from the steemit platform. I am currently trying to create quality content, and I can say that I have not received much support in this community of high voters. This is a social platform where people who share quality content can earn income, but I think these content should be the ones that really support, have rules and moderators of these posts. Since it is a worldwide platform, many people, except English, share articles in their own language. I think that every language on the platform should be examined, checked and supported accordingly. As an example, I can provide a review of the content of the quality articles in the Turkish community, and those who actually work, people who write quality articles can earn income.

What new features would you like adding?

  • Where our steem power is written, it might be good to add how much vote we have. For example, I have 350 Sp, about $ 0.005.
    To further increase security in Steem accounts; a Google authenticator or a different 2FA system can be introduced.

What existing features could be improved?

On the Stemit homepage; The Trending Communities article has been great, as well as the most popular tags can be added.

Are there any extra features or facilities that would make it easier to promote your communities outside of Steem and to attract new members?

  • I have a discord group that we have established between people with Turkish and steemit accounts. Turkish users have left many to earn income on the steemit platform, but I think that the contests you are organizing now, or the way I say, or the fact that each community on the steemit platform has moderators who review the articles will both make the platform higher quality and will increase the number of users as the users earn income. It would be great to have a moderator for every community, but I think it would be perfect to have moderators on your own team or to choose.

Some good ideas here, thank you.

I stopped using communities because when posting to a community, the post no longer shows up in my OWN blog. That means if someone wants to see what I posted, they need to check BOTH my own blog AND my posts links. Everything I post should be found in ONE place. You need to make things easier, not more complicated in this already-complicated platform.

The other thing I'm waiting for is for the algorithm of our earnings to change so that the small accounts have a chance to earn something here. Get rid of the 2-cent minimum pay-out! That hurts the many small accounts, especially those just starting out. Who would want to work hard to earn nothing because all their earnings are confiscated because they are below the minimum pay-out? PLEASE change that as soon as possible. Make Steem great again by allowing the small accounts to earn something.

I think it's actually useful that posting to a community doesn't necessarily show up as a "blog post", for example I think it makes more sense for my Actifit posts to not be highlighted -- I don't think they're bad posts but they are usually of limited interest. But many community posts are just like blog posts so I can understand your frustration. Maybe it would be better if it was configurable, but that would make things more complicated.

I can see your point and agree that there may be certain cases where one may not want to have posts show up in your own personal blog but I think that would be very few cases. Perhaps some statistics or a poll on that topic needs to be done to provide a clearer picture.

You can post in a community and Resteem your post. It will show up in your Blog too.

I know, but that's a hassle to always remember to resteem. It's simpler just not to bother with communities. Especially since once you post into a community, its not easy to get OUT of the community again. Totally a pain in the butt.

Personally, I think it's simpler to just follow people and create your own community circles that way.

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You are right! I don't need communities either. It's not a feature a blogger ever needs. I don't want to customize my readership into small boxes. We have keywords (tags), that's quite enough.

Thank you for your post with all the suggestions.

The Steemit Team

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Dear @steemitblog

One small suggestion:

  • as an admin of community, I would like to have an opportunity to PIN publications on top of our community, which are not posted within this community

So let's say someone posted within community XYZ and I would consider this article very important to content consumers and authors within community which I manage - then it would help me to be able to PIN this post.

Am I making sense?
Yours, Piotr

Thank you for the suggestion.

I think it would be nice if a Twitter-like search feature was added to Steemit.

Resteemed this article. Thank you for supporting STEEM community.

Thank you for this suggestion.

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  1. 커뮤니티스 개설 비용을 100sbd로 인상하십시오.

  2. 커뮤니티스 운영 계정으로 10%의 steem , sbd 베네피셔리가 반영되도록 하십시오.

  3. 커뮤니티스에 게시된 게시글은 다른 곳과 공유되지 않도록 하십시오.

  4. 커뮤니티스 가입을 운영자가 승인할 수 있도록 하십시오.


  1. Increase the cost of opening a community to 100 sbd.

  2. Ensure that the Community Operating Account reflects 10% Steem , sbd beneficieri.

  3. Don't share posts posted on the community with anyone else.

  4. Allow operators to approve community subscriptions.


This enables community operators to activate communities for their own benefit.

Thank you for these very useful suggestions.

The Steemit Team

With the roll out of communities, tags were sidelined. I'd like to see the 'explore' option returned in the drop-down menu, with the stats showing like it used to.

Also, Communities aren't tied to a tag, which makes them only explorable in one area, when it would be nice if they could be explored through a tag as well.

Finally, most content is relevent to more than one community and being able to publish to up to three would be great benefit to content discoverability.

These are a few changes I'd like to see, thanks.

Thank you for these useful suggestions.

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https://steemit.com/deutsch/@greece-lover/100-tage-von-steem-tag-17-brainstorming-der-gemeinschaften

Jeder deutschsprechende ist auch auf unseren Discord Willkommen. Dort findet ihr die Mitglieder die auch weiterhin fest hinter Steem stehen !
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Every winner from the german speaking community will get an extra bonus of 10 Steem from me. Please confirm your participation under the link

https://steemit.com/deutsch/@greece-lover/100-tage-von-steem-tag-17-brainstorming-der-gemeinschaften

Thank you.

good work with the community curation account -- i think you should consider supporting @canna-curate - but i would like to apply for a downvoting account -- i don't need a one month trial -- just one week and i can proove how clean steem could be , and if you like the work we do you can add us more delegation , if you dont want to delegate , you can also give me a posting key for a account . Downvoting milkings and spam are as important as curating .. hope to get a positive response from you

thanks

Thank you for your comment. We are looking at all options at present.

A second version of Communities is firmly in our current planning.

Unless I’m sadly mistaken, Steemit currently has zero devs on staff after its devs all quit in disgust. Isn’t that just a tiny problem?

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As you can see, accounts have been frozen, which I think is right, by the way.

Oh? Why is that

Because these accounts were heavily involved in the spin-off. Some of them still had high voting power and could damage the Steem Blockchain by witness voting. All it takes is for a node with an old version to sign off on a blog. The accounts were frozen, not deleted. At Hive, assets were simply transferred to the steem.dao account and stolen. That shows who's been misbehaving.

If you have zero idea of what you're talking about, you shouldn't share your opinions.

Exactly!!!

I believe that anyone who is running a HIVE node should also have their accounts frozen, purely for karmic justice. If you run code that blocks accounts on HIVE, you should humbly accept when someone else runs code that blocks your funds on Steem. HIVE is all smoke and mirrors, pushed forward by illusionists who delusionally believed that "the masses" would support "the cause", and who are now wondering how the hell they will continue to fund this fiasco.

You can't steel something that someone didn't already have. by your logic if I decide to selectively gift people something then I'm stealing from everyone I choose not to give a gift to.

No one stole anything in establishing Hive, simply by definition that is literally impossible.

That's the wrong information. Everyone had received the Airdeop after the fork and there are then transactions from members to the steem.dao account
I don't care, the rate will soon be under a cent anyway. I'm giving it away in case I still get it.

Hive will never catch on, think about why the really big whales don't do PD. Only the ones who are forced to take measurements because they're witnesses at Hive.

There are no buyers for HIVE after STEEM ends its PD. What investor buys when he knows he can get blacklisted? Steem is always going to be bought by Asians.

You must be living under the rock or you just chose to be blind in all of those that happened. There are a lot of receipts available and the evidences are glaring, but some of you chose to ignore those. A bunch of sell-outs.

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So much for free speech. I feel like I'm on a blacklist. But wait... I was on that list :)
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You're talking about transactions I can generate through a simple bot. Any computer science student can program such a bot. You have to see how many contributions are published. And here at Steem, almost 70% more are published. In some countries there are up to 200% more communities and on Steem there are much more comments.

But we are waiting together, I have a big bet that in 5 months the rate will be below 5 US-Cent and in a year it will be below 1 US-Cent.

They were stupid. You have angered the Asian community and insulted them racially. That community has a lot of money. Steem has always been bought to support the stock price. You could see that today. But who wants to buy HIVE to prop up the stock price? Bernisander :)

That's all there is to you. Money. Let's wait and see.

I think Hive is catching on. Look at the price

This was a typical pump and dump because HIVE is traded on huobi since yesterday. Look at the course later. The courses are often manipulated.

Hey @steemcurator01
Little bit late but the Hindi translation is ready for Indian community:- 100 दिन STEEM : दिन-17 - Communities Brainstorm

Thank you

Dear @steemitblog

Rolling our communities has been one of the best thing that STINC did within past 2 years. However it seem that since then - no more development took place in that matter. And there surely is so much more that could be improved.

I love to see that you're planning to improve those communities and as a Project.hope community admin (around 900 subscribers) I would like to share some of my own ideas on how "communities" could be improved and I will drop another comment soon.

Are there any extra features or facilities that would make it easier to promote your communities outside of Steem and to attract new members?

Attracting new members isn't the problem here. Process of creating account is. New users will hardly like to struggle to create an new account.

A second version of Communities is firmly in our current planning. We are already working on a few changes that have come from previous feedback.

Would you need beta-testers? I would gladly help with some of project.hope core team guys.

Yours, Piotr

Thank you for your feedback. More news coming soon.

It's good to learn that the Community feature will be revamped or upgraded soon!

In my observation most of the curators and content creators spend most of their time in Communities. And it's good that you are focusing your development resources in upgrading the Communities that we are loving since it was released after its beta.

Hope to hear the updates about this soon! Thanks a lot for keeping the Steem Spirit alive.

Thank you for your support.

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I wish I could choose which language to post and be able to view community/posts in that language.

Each community could have a category ... sport, travel, entertainment, lifestyle, cryptocurrency, fashion, health ... then it would be possible to send every person who registers to choose what type of category of interest.

Thank you for these suggestions.

I would like to be able to follow the value of each published post and the number of votes received, for example, from my profile in Steemmit https://steemit.com/@testarasta as before.

Thank you for this suggestion.

So many things to built on Steem, it's time to see the future.
This quarantine is making the path of the creation of strongest communities.

Thank you

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Just copy reddit.

Imagine all the redditors gaining useless karma points right now, when they could earn tokens that actually do something. These people probably just didn't hear about other social platforms yet.

Before you start to hype new projects every day, I recommend to take 100 days for fixing all the things, they are still screwed up. In example the settings of profiles. I changed my blog's header but the wallet still shows the former settings.

1: it takes forever to power down.
2: limited payout window. post worth nothing after 7 days

As Justin said... instant power downs is what steem needs right now.

#Steem ♨♨♨ On !
with L💙O💙V💙E ♩♬♬

Great topics.

For communities, it needs to improve an accessibility. It is very hard to know where can I find out "creating community menu" on steemit.com

In fact, I'm focusing on integrated system to support creating communities and custom token issue/management rather than the current communities features.

So, (1) I was wondering it is possible to connect the existing community with community's custom token(SMT) later.

(2) when can we meet the testing UI to config custom token setting(total supply, inflation, voting power, etc)?

Thank you for your input. More news on these points soon.

If you all are interested in Splinterlands staying on chain I recommend reaching out to them (they still have not been contacted yet). I was surprised to hear this since Splinterlands is the brightest star on Steems block chain. Also I have seen a lot of complaining in discord due to steems current integrity issues caused by the soft fork.

Thank you.

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Hi @steemblog,

How and where does one apply for delegations to start projects on steem.

You can see some of our work on steem so far via this POST.It just gives a snapshot of our work via a single source.

So far we have been posting on steem.We would like to now grow to something bigger on the steem blockchain in terms of a proper entity to cover food as a category. Is there is a system on steem to seed-fund start ups with delegations ? If so how does one go about applying with details of the project etc. ?

Thank You :)

Keep following the 100 Days of Steem Project on @steemitblog and you will see the call for the next round of Community Curators coming shortly.

Communities were a nice concept but problem with some was that they had a native token which offered no value. It was home to spam and abuse and therefore communities should be launched with either no native token, and moderated steem upvotes or a token that only has utility if bought, and upvotes will have value only if given by a moderation team. Or limited circulating supply for tokens.

Communities that provide steem upvotes have fared well and survived for long.

Many communities were built around very vague and simple hashtags. I think limiting the type of communities to a good concept and preveting posts to appear on communities by simply using a tag should also help add value to communities.

They were the SCOT Tribes based on Steem-Engine tokens you are referring to.

The inbuilt Steem Communities operate differently.

Thank you

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