RE: 👨💻 #Proposal-86: Change Log - Hide Resteems
Great work! This is certainly a much-needed feature.
I have one question about updating the description in communities. @httr4life and I have been trying for a while to update the description on the World of Sports group that he put up when the community was first created. When you go to update it, it looks good, like it worked. But when you reload the page, it goes back to what was posted before.
Also, are there any plans to improve the site's navigation/ability to locate older related posts/search improvements and SEO issues? I have zero understanding of how things work on a blockchain, but my experience with websites tells me there's got to be a way to make navigating the site easier while also making search engines recognize the content more.
The first thing I noticed when I was curating is how hard it is to find the content on Steemit as a newbie (no dropdown options, tag clouds, or links to popular posts beyond the main feed and the top communities list. Not to mention, the 'search engine' option only gives items from years ago). I quickly learned little tricks here and there, but all those issues should have easy fixes. I realize you're busy with tons of stuff (and I do appreciate all you do and also realize your plug-in may address some of this, but the front end does not currently); I've just wanted to ask this for quite a while and never really knew who/when to address it.
I'm afraid I don't have time to cover everything right now, but I've had a quick look at a few bits...
I've just updated the community with a new avatar and cover image which you should be able to see. By "New avatar", I've just used the profile picture from @hive-199189 which was already there.
I did notice some strange behaviour when I made the update and then refreshed the page straight after. My suspicion with this is that the original information is stored in the State and despite the database getting updated, the State didn't refresh - I noticed that it had updated when I switched from steemitdev.com to steemit.com.
My suggestion for now would be that once you've made the update, navigate away from the page and give it a bit of time before hitting Refresh and returning again. This worked for me and there's now a smiley face in the Description.
The navigation / SEO is multi-faceted and something I've made a start on. The Primary navigation on the left (on Desktop) and bottom (on mobile) was the first thing that I introduced at the beginning of this year. There's a lot more I'd like to do around contextual searching.
As you mentioned, the search bar at the top is screwed. This functionality is separate to the main site (and coded in a different language (Python I think) ) so I've not been able to get that configured or set up on my localhost yet to work on. I tried earlier in the week but I need a Linux machine which I'll buy in the new year if my DAO proposal gets extended. If it doesn't get extended, I'll have to think about whether I want to make that investment (about £500+).
In the past, the "no-follow" was added by default on posts - so any in-page links wouldn't get followed until the post hits $20. This was to prevent people promoting their scammy sites and damaging Steemit's SEO. I think this needs adjusting.
I don't know if you saw my latest SEO experiment - that article has been indexed by Google which is a positive step.
The tag cloud is something I'm thinking about - I have an idea of how I could do it but I need to see what data's available to the page to make this work. There used to be a "popular tags" page which suggests to me that there're possibilities here.
If you do become a curator again, try my interface - https://raptor.in.ua/steemit.php - I've not worked on it much recently but it feels like this would serve your needs better.
I doubt I've covered everything you asked, apologies if not so please ask again!
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Wow, you have been busy. Sorry to have missed your updates (I'm going to make it a point to visit your timeline when I have some free time and look back in the next few days).
I like your interface a lot...the only questions I have are about those users that slide in between the cracks (so to speak) and are blacklisted for no real reason. For example, several people on here use voting bots daily and make good content; I think your algorithm takes the majority of that group out. For example, I believe @httr4life contest posts are blacklisted because he delegates power so that his drawing has a daily pot for users with lower power levels. I understand why you've done that: to keep the one-paragraph posts that bring nothing to the table away from the timeline, but some good users may be affected. Knowing that, I still believe your interface is a wonderful tool for curating (I did use it after @remlaps informed me of its existence), but if that type of algorithm was used on the front page, I believe many users would be cut out of the process wrongly.
https://steemit.com/@the-gorilla/notifications
Take a look at my notifications. It's possible that it didn't update because all of the fields weren't filled in. That's something for me to investigate and fix.