RE: A Sneak Peak at Communities on Steempeak!
Pretty great stuff! I can't wait for Communities, beta or not, to come along to Steempeak. I'd like to try them out myself on Steemit, but I personally prefer the interface that Steempeak has.
A quick question though, as you've much experience with Communities... What effect is there between posting on a particular Community, compared to just posting it on your own blog. I get that posting on Communities might get you better interaction, content discovery, and maybe viewership, but does it have an actual impact on say, earnings?
Also, I think your idea for Discord integration is a pretty great thought. I use Discord almost purely for Steem-related interactions, whether they're chatting with other Steem users, or sharing my posts for curation, and etc. So, it'll be great to see a Discord feature built right in.
Alternatively, if embedding Discord might prove too difficult, then perhaps we could have a page within the new Steem for sharing links/invites to Discord groups for particular Communities, and so on. Since Steemians have many Discord groups, but there is never a single source page to find them all, I think this could be a neat feature to help users discover other users :-)
It should be noted: You can post to a community and re-steem to your homepage/blog.
Presently embedding discord is EASY ... however finding a non-buggy (and free) version of the embedding system may be tricky, but we've just started to look.
Ah, so that's how that works, then. Thanks for the info. I haven't tried out Communities yet, although I'm getting more curious now. Any news on when Steempeak will get a beta on Communities, or is that accessible to the public already?
I hope that Discord integration, or some other form of chatting/instant-messaging feature will be added soon, since it'll be really helpful for interacting with other users and creators!
If you're willing to give us some feedback find jarvie on discord he may get you access to try it out.
Do you have a particular link to the Discord? Or is he part of a group? I've just tried out Communities for the first time on Steemit beta. Seems to work well, so far. Although I prefer to use Steempeak, since the UI here is much better than traditional Steemit.
JARVIE#0711 on discord
Cheers. I'll take a peek.