RE: 👨🏻💻 Condenser: Documenting Steemit.com Sitemap
In the Right Menu, we see Trending Communities and I would love to hear in the comments - Who cares?
Since trending communities are calculated in the same way as trending posts, I would say that not many users are interested... and it certainly shouldn't be the first thing that catches the eye of new users.
By the way, there are hardcoded "recommended communities" in Hivemind that are displayed first in the trending communities...
These two, for example: "SteemitCryptoAcademy" and "Newcomers' Community". "Steemit Feedback" was also there, but has obviously already been removed. ;-)
the suggestion of "formalising" the site structure. Should this be the first step before making things look prettier?
This is not easy to answer. Both design and usability are required here. Personally, I mainly access my feed and my subscribed communities. The feed can appear for me on the profile page, with the number of new notifications (divided by category) and my subscribed communities in the sidebar (now I'm getting ahead of myself).
Then I can access everything from my account starting page.
I can also imagine the subscribed communities in the avatar menu as a submenu, so that I can jump from one subscribed community to another.
In other words: I don't really need the side menus at all. They should mainly focus on the posts and present them in an appropriate way. Also with promoted posts in a sidebar...
... with one exception: The community information should be immediately visible, preferably elsewhere, but on the community page - and also in the mobile version.
To come back to your question: I think that when it comes to modernising the site, the "formalisation" and the rough layout should really come first before you start on the actual design. Otherwise, it will just be a patchwork that looks different in the feed than in the communities and doesn't really fit together....
Ah, sneaky... Well... I suppose that doesn't matter if I remove the column 😅
Including "My Friends" and "My communities" feeds within the profile page is an interesting idea which I hadn't considered. Your idea makes a lot of sense as the "Avatar" area is very much "Mine".
Getting the navigation structure correct before changing any of the design elements definitely feels like the correct approach to me. It's how I'd approach a new project but it's never as straightforward when inheriting an existing site with an experienced user base.
Once I've got the documentation finished, I'll see how easy a change like this will be. It'll definitely be on the JavaScript side of the fence that I was initially hoping to avoid.
I think so. :-D
At this point, I'm just thinking about how far Stinc. would go with the change. Have you ever thought about this? Of course, it would be best if the team would get in touch here, but nothing seems to be happening...
Of course you can still work on it, but there is a risk that Steemit will not put the result on its servers. The only option would be to host the site yourself, but that wouldn't be the ideal situation, would it?
Absolutely!
Javascript is now also responsible for some creative "gimmicks". CSS or SCSS alone is usually no longer enough. You'll see what happens. Sometimes it's also good to let something like this come to you.
I think they're too busy checking to see if the moderators that have booming support are validating posts quickly enough!
I don't know what the consequence of that is... my understanding (could be wrong) is that if the majority of the witness nodes are updated to reflect the changes, then the changes will be displayed... otherwise, there's no decentralisation...?
Unfortunately, this does not apply to Steemit - i.e. the Condenser. This is only the case for the blockchain. The site is only hosted and maintained by Stinc. The witnesses have no access to their servers, unless they are employed by Stinc. This is probably one of the reasons why the current difficulties are not being resolved...
Of course, as a witness I can also host the site, but that would just be a (customised) copy on a different domain. Like I did for a while on steemit.moecki.online, for example. But not directly on steemit.com.
Unfortunately, only the Steem is decentralised...
Oh, ok. That's interesting. I suppose that if Steemit don't want it, then it becomes its own front-end like SteemPeakd was - although I'm not sure I want the responsibility of hosting something like that myself!
I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we come to it 🙂
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