RE: Improve Tags - Improve User Ex - Let's Start A Bug Bounty! - 100 Steem Start
Interesting read. I had no idea our blogs disappeared into the ether. I hadn't noticed, probably because there have always been plenty of posts on the tags I have searched. I searched on incredibleyou and was only able to find one outside your contents list.
I have been doing a series of "quotes to live by" with the tag #quotestoliveby and had assumed that they would always be searchable by that tag. Now I will need to rethink this.
I would also like some sort of Categories Archive. And I would like something like the situation of Pinterest boards (assuming nothing has changed there) where people can sign up to see stuff in their feed only related to one category.
I like to write about lots of different stuff and, on FB, had to have separate accounts. I'd really love to have just the one account but for people to be able to choose which parts of it they see.
I also like you idea of a Bounty Fund and for Steemians to be able to vote on the ones we feel are the most important to implement/sort out.
Yes, it's a real shame, tags keep our posts alive and are used by the google crawlbots when people search various subjects, so it is a very disappointing state of affairs.
I have heard that categories are coming, and your suggestion for signing up just for certain subjects would really enhance user experience, I hope this is one of the changes in the making.
I like the bug bounty because even though we have Github at the moment, and to some extent Utopian.io, I think we need something more accessible and less techy, so that people can easily browse suggestions, add there own, and contribute Steem/SBD if they so wish.
Fingers crossed!
Cg
Yes. I agree about the techy bit, being a non-techy myself. I've heard Utopian.io mentioned few times as a good place for newbies to get seen and earn some SP but every time I looked I thought it was just for developers. Today I noticed that there is other stuff there apart from coding.
Having something more accessible is critical if Steemit wants to grow more mainstream. I'm not a technophobe and am willing to try and learn what sometimes seems way beyond me but most of my friends just found it too much and have stuck with FB.
It's nothing new though is it? That back end, front end thing has been going on forever.
I've been thinking lately, that I would be a really good bridge right now, before I know too much. If I could get interviewed by someone who knows their way around crypto and blockchains and upvoting etc. I could ask the "dumb" questions that newbies are thinking but which those in the know have no idea we don't know.
Hope that makes sense!
Also, I think it's very difficult for newbies to know what is important and what's not in the beginning. For a while I fretted that I didn't know how to trade but now realise that it's not important right now as my main goal is to get to 500SP so my votes will be worth something. And that took me about a month to work out.
It's sort of a catch22 because even if I wrote a post about this stuff very few people would see it anyway. I did write about my experience for the first 4 weeks and will do an update when I've been here 2 months but I should maybe make better notes because, once you've learned something, it's hard to remember what you didn't know.
Ah yes, the curse of experts syndrome, we all suffer from it at one time or another, and find it difficult to relay the basics because they are so, well, basic!
Maybe we could do the interview...?
Cg
I'd definitely be up for that @cryptogee. Would you be able to take charge of the technical side of it?
Maybe we could have a chat on Zoom before hand to discuss the best way to go about it.
I'll start by brainstorming some things that I would like answered and looking back through my notes to see the questions I asked at the very beginning then maybe we could come up with an order of play?
I'm happy to just go for it too but I'm not sure that would be as helpful because I'm liable to jump all over the place.
Yeah good idea, I'll have a think as well, I'm just about to do a very exciting interview actually :-), so I'm preparing for that at the mo, but will get on this afterwards.
Do you do Steemit chat or Discord? I don't know Zoom.
Cg
Left you a message on Discord. Couldn't post here for hours cuz of lack of bandwidth. 😢