RE: [Vlog] Views on Steem delegation, the Utopian.io 'rant', Communities and why I avoid the Trending page
I should have known you'd bring up Communities >:( ! Just kidding :). Development of Communities is going very well and should be ready soon. The "issue" is that we discovered that our solution to Communities, a software layer called Hivemind, is actually incredibly useful for doing all kinds of things (like un-resteeming) and so we really want to get Hivemind right. @roadscape is doing an absolutely amazing job developing this product. But it should be ready very soon. Communities are 100% not a forgotten or ignored feature, the exact opposite. You can hold me to that. It's simply due to the fact that Hivemind is a more complicated product than simply a sub-group feature that has made the timeline more difficult to assess. Key takeaway, once Hivemind launches, Steemians will be getting a lot MORE than just communities :).
Thats good to hear. I look forward to it. The Trending page is killing me at the moment! The sooner that is consigned to people that actually want it as a point of reference the better. It's far easier to build and sell a vibrate Community (where people happen to get rewarded) to newcomers than a "firehose"!
Will it also be possible to change the way tagging works? I had suggested a solution to the "tag abuse" problem causing noobs to get flagged and turned off by the platform. I was told it was too complicated for the current software layer that runs steemd.
The idea is that instead of the author choosing the tags for a post it should be the stake holders. So an author could choose their first tag (category) but the other tags are only based on their SP and it would be up to bigger curators to decide what tags are more appropriate for the post.