Switch entry page from /trending to /promoted
I don't think I'm telling tales out of school if I mention that the /trending page is painful to look at. IMO, this is definitely Steemit not putting its best foot forward. If we change the front page to be /promoted, that leads back to the visibility as a service theme for token burning. Hopefully, it would be more pleasant to look at than the current trending page, and it would also provide additional utility for the SBD token (which retires debt in terms of STEEM tokens).
Along with your examples, I would also love to see communities start using post promotion to showcase their best content - like I used to do with STEM Saturday until I ran into time constraints and our community's posting volume slowed down. When I was running that initiative, I never fully understood why some of the bigger communities never challenged me for the top of the page, but I'm sure that part of it was because no one lands on /promoted without seeking it out. Making it the landing page would definitely make it more valuable as a piece of screen real estate.
Ah, great minds 😉
The communities idea is interesting too - the URL works within communities already (replacing "trending" with "promoted" - although most communities are empty in this regard).
I think the answer's as simple as that. It would definitely get more traffic if one of the sc accounts (could be one of sc04-sc08 (@o1eh 😉)) started visiting more frequently although the risk then is that it becomes a vote-buying scheme which is no better than a bid-bot. Although it would be better than a bid-bot. Hopefully you understand what I'm getting at!
Yep, and it also works with "my" to see all promoted posts in the communities that you're subscribed to, i.e. https://steemit.com/promoted/my (except that it seemingly doesn't work from Upvu because they rewrite the URL, and don't seem to have a promoted page).
Agreed. sc01 used to watch it, but I think they were focusing on just the top-2 on the page, and they seemed to lose interest when the typical promo amounts dropped below 1 SBD.
I think I do. At least the payments are being distributed to all investors that way...
I didn't realise that although I did see something in the code which made me try this:
https://steemit.com/@remlaps/payout
Where you can see each author's posts / comments ordered by rewards. I've tried it with a few other "orders" but they don't see to work for me.
Here's a quirk. I replied to another comment of yours this morning, and it shows up in my comments and your replies, but I can't see it in the actual thread. Strange...
Has it appeared now?
Some things are definitely taking longer than others to appear. It's not a great experience at the moment and I think we're all just hoping that somebody's trying to fix it behind the scenes... which they might not be.
It's there on the blockchain, but I still don't see it if I click on the top-level post and scroll down through the comments. Seems like the comment depth might be cut off at 4...(?)
I have also noticed the lag you mention between posting/voting and having the action reflected in the web site, but I think that's something different.
I really hope that somebody's working to fix these issues!
Yeah, me too. Fingers crossed. I noticed a new issue in github the other day. No updates/responses yet, but maybe we can keep an eye on that.