A look at Steemit Communities, aka "Subreddits"
Hey Steemians, how are you doing?
If you are like me an investor in the Steem-Blockchain you are maybe interested in the development that is ongoing with the main website of the Steem-Blockchain: Steemit.com
Unfortunately: The Steemit-Devs are very silent when it comes to development-updates, which is really sad. In my opinion, there has to be an update on the development of the platform AT LEAST once a week to keep us all informed. There are dev-teams of other blockchains out there, that post an update nearly every day. Thats maybe a bit too much but once a week would be more than adequate.
With that being said, I want to take their part for now and give you a look on a well-anticipated new feature on Steemit, called Communities:
Like Steemit.com is comparable to the famous Reddit.com , Communities are Steemits take on Subreddits. At the moment it is really hard, especially for people with low Steempower, to be noticed at all. They get buried in the NEW section where every new post shows up. Overall, the Tag-System which Steemit uses at the moment is very unconvenient and just not good. Thats where Communities will step in: Communities will be a place to post about a certain topic. Users can subscribe to these communities or create them theirself.
Lets first have a look on how the community setup-process will look like:
I. Profile information:
As you can see, you will be able to choose your community-name, your URL and the about-text of your community. Nothing special.
II. Content Settings for your community
Here you will be able to choose who can create posts in your Community: Everbody or just approved people. Moreover you can choose who can comment on these post, the language of the community and if its a NSFW-community.
III. Management team
On this screen you will be able to choose what kind of permissions everyone in your community has.
IV. Review and pay for your community
On the last screen you will be able to review your community settings and finally create the community. As you can see, there is a one-time fee for creating a community. I guess thats for preventing spam.
Now that we have seen how a community will be created, lets have a look on how communities will look like:
As you can see, on the post-screen you will now be able to see where your post will be published. On your own blog or in a Steemit-community.
Last thing to say here: This is all subject to change! These are all just mockups which I took from the official Steemit-Github: https://github.com/steemit
From my point of view, the development of the communities is still in the early stages. I guess it will take some more months to see them live. But it is definitely something to be excited about!
Resteemed it 😉
I didn't noticed it until I seen this post..Thank you for sharing.
Hopefully that will help to bring some semblance of balance to the platform, and give little guys like us the ability to be seen a little more easily.
Thanks for the update!
It most certainly will!
IMO, something that I believe would compliment communities (a little controversial) is a class system. It's not so different to the real word. Also, forums have implemented a similar system for a long while, by methods such as posting ability level, thanked level, earned achievements etc. They are a way of instantly recognizing each other and the level of commitment to the system/platform.
Rep is almost laughable here. A -18 can rape the rewards no differently to a +70. Fuck what stake they have, they are a tumor to the system. A flag is simply a minnow's nightmare. Those who are "at war" don't know what flag really does. They have abilities which the rest don't have. Either a heavy flag back or the aid of others with rank that can come and heal their wounds.
A class system already exists anyway. It's just not official. Your wallet determines the rank. Not so bad as yeah those who put much in deserve more out. However it's more than that. It's who likes you... and who doesn't. Evident in what is going on in the the little sandbox with haejin and bernie. Aren't they cute btw. NO. They aren't. They are both FUCKWITS. It's no longer between the belligerents anymore. There is much collateral damage. Where if you simply interact with one, the other loses their buttplug.
Do you think that this disease won't spread into communities?
Anyway however communities are run it won't matter. The tag system should show that the migration over to communities will lead to the same thing. Certain tags get whored by those who know whoring and exploiting.
With a class system you have some type of comfort that you are playing/competing in the pool with like individuals for real. That there won't be some whales and their sucker fish come in and rape the place and take big rewards simply because the bots are programed to jerk them off harder.
For instance:
If there were 3 rewards pool, one for each rank I would think (without even thinking about how it would work) that the spread would be much more fair than it is now. Nothing else needs to change. All would be free to interact with the system as normal. You just play in a different league.
Like we don't already ay....
But,, all this means shit because the ones who should care... don't.. and the rest of us can go get fucked. True story bro.
Thats a pretty neat idea. I agree with you, the current system favors the people with high steempower in an unfair way. Steemit has to step up on this issue, but I am confident they will figure it out.
Very interesting and the first of heard of this too. I'm pretty excited for this actually. I like you, feel we should hear more from the team behind the site. Maybe a button that alerts us to when there's new developments or something like that? I'm gonna resteem this so more get the news. Cheers
Thanks for the Resteem! You can always follow the development process on Github at https://github.com/steemit, but for non-technical people thats not the easiest way to be honest.
This is really exciting! I can already see a lot of discord channels having their own communities on Steemit.
Great idea to get people noticed as well as get some much needed filter kinda functionality ✨
/signed !
This looks awesome. The UI is sleek.
Months? Really? Why does this take so long? Seems like a very basic feature nearly all other social media sites have in one way or the other as a standard feature...
Anyway, thanks for sharing! This way we get at least some information and I agree on your call to the devs to update us at least weekly! This would be very important!
blockchains are a new tech that is not as simple as traditional dbs to deal with.
Ok, I´m no dev, so what do I know.... I was under the impression, that dApp programming is similar to classic apps - so ok, then we have to wait and let the guys do their job - they should update us way more often though...
It's just a guess, I am not a member of the development team. But if you look here https://github.com/steemit/condenser/milestone/9 you can see that most of the issues are still "open" to development :/
One of my newer friends thru CryptoEmpire just did the "Pending Payouts" drop down box with the breakdowns in SBD and Steem. @eonwarped did that upgrade, and he's not 'dev team' most of this is being OS I believe.
Looks promising... Like you mentioned in your post, new people aren't noticed due to the many posts that are made daily. Dispite there being some great posts from newcomers. Let us hope this development doesn't take to long
thanks for posting this info, it would be very nice to see steemit communities evolve to Reddit like useful communities. i'm new and found this helpful. upvote!