Deployment Updates, Improved Power Downs, New Landing Page Copy
In today’s post we’d like to update the community on some of the notable recent deployments made to “condenser” the software behind Steemit.
We are all sad to see it go, but “Welcome to the Blockchain” has been replaced. New users who land on steemit.com will now see “Money talks. Your voice is worth something. Join the community that pays you to post and curate high quality content.”
Improved Power Downs
Steemit.com now allows users to power down less than 100% of their SP. When a user clicks on the “Power Down” button in their wallet, they will be taken to a page where they can select how much of their SP they want to power down. It will provide an estimate of how much STEEM will be disbursed each week.
If the power down will leave less than 5 SP in the account, it will give the user a warning:
Additional Changes
These changes were deployed along with several other enhancements.
Pull Request 1699
A Russian translation file was loaded into condenser in preparation for supporting multiple languages via translations.
Pull Request 1686
Users can now use the middle click on a username and it will take them directly to the user’s blog page:
Left click will continue to open the same user preview page as before:
Pull Request 1695
Additional clarification was added to the user signup process.
Pull Request 1667 and Pull Request 1673
Updates were made to the Welcome page and FAQ.
Pull Request 1732
Streamlined a portion of the new user signup process that was causing delays for some users.
Other Miscellaneous Changes
- 1055 post cross link #1077
- fix percent interpolation issue #1690
- 1153 kill nested steemit proxy urls #1701
- 1417 retain image proxy url sizing #1723
- konami-code #1715
- copyediting localization readme #1730
- 1707 article page loading icon #1734
- Add "#" to "Steemit" when using Twitter share #1735
- Don't hide flag in PostSummary #1739
Bluepaper and Whitepaper in GitHub
The Bluepaper and Whitepaper files have been converted into LaTeX markdown format and committed to GitHub. Instructions to clone the repository and build the PDF from the markdown file are in the readme. Users will now be able to submit pull requests to the repository to update the content.
https://github.com/steemit/bluepaper
https://github.com/steemit/whitepaper
Stay Tuned
We continue to work hard on a lot of changes and we look forward to sharing the details with you as they roll out.
Team Steemit
Thx. Little things make a difference.
I value about steemit that I can use it on pc, phone and tablet. I don’t want different ui’s on different devices. I’m writing this on an iPad right now. Simple UIs are powerful.
I think the biggest thing that needs to be changed is the display of content. Content needs to have a longer life, I miss so much from people I follow while I get spammed at the same time.
I look forward to all the future changes that are coming.
I totally agree, We Need "History" In Steemit !!
I have no problem with "Money talks." well, because it does...
People coming to this site will notice the dollar amounts beside posts quickly and will naturally want to know why there is money beside posts. And it's explained further "Your voice is worth something. Join the community that pays you to post and curate high quality content." It couldn't be any clearer.
The people who get paid are the ones who:
and those who just come to read, get to read high quality content free from ads (which means a very good reading experience) all for free.
as for newbies not making much money when they start out: that's a problem with the fundamentals of content discovery with the current tag-based organization. Right now, it's hard to find content to read, but when communities are implemented, content will be so much more visible. For example, a newbie can make a post into a highly active community with thousands of followers and all those people will see it. He or she doesn't have to build a following on their blog, it's already there. Or they can start their own communities.
another thing
No offence to anyone, but I don't think saying "Mine STEEM with your mind" will work well, because the concept of mining is know within crypto circles by people familiar with cryptocurrencies. I don't think ordinary writers, readers etc will be attracted to the term or understand the purpose of Steemit on first glance. Steemit needs to go mainstream and we need to simplify our message.
Money Talks is great SWEEEEET
I'm no exper but this sure seems to be setting the stage for something very big. Thanks for the improved power down... but I think I will be powering up as much as I can. Can't wait to see what this leads to!
Thank you, @steemitblog for the update.
1- The new slogan "Money Talks" is worth a #discussion. I have just posted a new article for that. Please join the discussion there.
2- I loved the power-down feature. This was very much needed. I have also noticed that it solves another problem: Powering down while delegating SP. Before this update, you could not power down if you had delegated some SP. Now you can.
I hope you continue rolling-out more updates.
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Great job on the improvements! The partial power down feature will really be nice. I have already been seeing some users in the community working on translations for the Bluepaper, which is really cool :)
RIP 'Welcome to the blockchain'.
LOL.
Even classics have their day
Hahahahaha! I am a little sad also.
This is CoOL!
Aaaand they completely missed the point of Steem I guess...
Now it's time to go and hope Busy, eSteem and Smoke Network can market this blockchain a whole lot better.
Remember, it's the social enterprise that has the value, not the money you can get whilst participating in it..
Money certainly does talk. But does it sleep?!
I am liking the new power down option, keep up the good work!
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