Steemit CEO & Co-Founder Ned Scott Just Shared a Bunch of Exciting News About What's to Come
Steemit CEO and Co-Founder Ned Scott announced today plans to add heavily requested new features to Steemit. These heavily requested features will include private messaging, notifications and possibly more prominent follow buttons.
With the addition of private messaging, notifications, and more prominent follow buttons, the Steemit team hopes to allow more contact between Steemit members, but also attract new users from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram who are already used to the functionality of such common features.
Ned Scott had this to say regarding the expected new features:
“Enhancing the diversity of our application-specific blockchain is a natural progression for Steemit. Private messaging is perfectly suited for a decentralized system and will empower users in a similar way to how direct messages empower users on Twitter. The ‘follow’ feature will enable community members to receive notifications as soon as their favorite authors post, and the notifications will work just like Facebook in that users will be alerted immediately upon a new post or upvote from their favorite contributors. These features are the pillars of current social media giants and we look forward to integrating them into Steemit over the coming weeks.”
With Steemit becoming the number one destination for bloggers and with the current and growing 70,000 user base that accounts for the 70,000 votes and more than 21,000 posts each day, the implementation of these new features feels like the natural progression of any blogging or social media platform.
In addition, Ned Scott had also this to say regarding the implementation of the new features:
“We hope to offer people much more than Reddit and Facebook, by simply elevating the user experience and rewarding users for their time, Steemit has a fighting chance to compete with the largest social networks. We still have a lot of work to do and we have a lot of room to grow, but on the whole we see this system as more than a new social network, but as the bedrock for an online social economy. Developers and entrepreneurs are recognizing they can go straight to the Steem blockchain to leverage its data, identities, posts and other content. It’s very inspiring to see so much activity on the Steem blockchain.”
Well, I for one am excited about what's to come on Steemit, and I look forward to the implementation of these new features.
Leave a comment below and let me know what are your thoughts of these new features that are to come on Steemit? And what other features could Steemit use that aren't currently in the pipeline?
Sounds great.
Now all we need is an incentive to remain powered up that balances against the incentives of receiving liquid dividends for powering down.
Yes it does @blakemiles84!
I'm sure that those incentives will reveal themselves with time. The team at Steemit is making great progress by the day, and most importantly listening to our voices, and integrating great features along the way.
With that being said, what could a great incentive be for us to remain powered up? What are your thoughts?
I didn't want to be that guy promoting his own posts in comment threads, so thank you for asking :)
I wrote this a few weeks back when I first identified this as an equivalent to a nicked vein leading to a slow bleed out:
Steemit Improvement Idea: Variable Power Up/Down Option
Nice attitude about linking your posts in the thread of another.
That's great news.... Can't wait for private messaging.
I'm looking forward to the private messaging as well @bola, and I hope that it's the first feature that they implement.
great post :) @albertfall
Thanks @bola!
Whaaat?! Yeah, I think it's time we get better filters for posts.
Yup, at 21,000 posts a day, it really is time for better post filters @socalguy.
This is such a small feature that I'm sure that it's overlooked, but hopefully it is addressed soon as well.
Private messaging is so needed! Great to hear!
Indeed @geke! I look forward mostly to the private messaging feature as well. Let's hope we see the private messaging feature deployed sooner than later.
Can't wait for pm's and notifications. Great news.
Indeed @iamron! Those are the features that we've all been waiting for.
Nice, right on. Right on. !!
Right on @fast2future!
Awesome this is terrific news! It will help bring more new users to the platform!
Yes it will @acassity!
These new features will level out the playing field for Steemit, and attract new users from other social media platforms, which is a great thing for the community.
@albertfall Private messaging would be very beneficial!
Having steemit-chat in the interim sure helps in the meantime.
Having a "Follow" button on the main screen would be good too.
Thank you for sharing.
Got to appreciate https://steemit.chat for now, but I know how you feel!
Thanks for sharing the Steemit.chat link with us @papa-pepper! I have yet to give it a try but I will soon enough.
You're welcome @albertfall.
You can practice by sending a message to papa-pepper if you want.
Thanks for joining the conversation @virtualgrowth!
Private messaging would be beneficial, and the current Steemit Chat is a great interim feature.
I also agree with you that a big and prominent follow button on the main screen of each profile page would be a great tweak to the already existing follow button.
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
good news.
Yes it is @lemooljiang!
Just to add that tweeter on steem Blockchain just launch for alpha test.
u can try it at squeek.io more to come on steem blockchain.
Hi @pnc,
I'm having a little trouble understanding the first part of your comment:
Can you please elaborate?
Cheers!