Some fresh news on our app steemstem.io - v0.2 is out
Exactly one month ago, we proudly announced the release of our new (open-source) app in the Steem ecosystem, steemstem.io, dedicated to the SteemSTEM project.
We believe that this app will serve as the gateway to reach our long-term goal of building a novel science communication medium on Steem. Ushering in a new era of scientific transparency and informational accessability thanks to blockchain technology.
Through steemstem.io, we will hence offer top researchers an incentivised way to share and communicate about their research directly with people across the globe, on the Steem blockchain. To that end efforts are underway to reach out research institutes and scientists and to bring them to Steem.
In an effort to keep the community updated, here we provide you the latest news on the development of our app!
The steemstem.io App in a Nutshell
On steemstem.io, only posts approved by our team of curators are featured, chronologically. Rather than censoring content, we apply quality filters that can be easily removed if needed. As such, all posts carrying the #steemstem tag can be displayed by a simple click of the ‘show all posts’ button.
The steemstem.io homepage by default displays posts (carrying the #steemstem tag) written in English, other languages are easily accessible by a simple click on a flag (steemstem.io currently supports six languages) and extra filters on specific subcategories (math, physics, psychology, etc.) can be applied.
In addition, whitelisted authors get extra exposure for free, on the right column of the main page. This is illustrated above with a sexy post ;)
For any user, extra exposure can be obtained by sending 3 STEEM to @steemstem-io with a link as a memo (the exact price may vary with time). As soon as the post is upvoted by SteemSTEM, it will appear on the top menu of the app, which includes 7 free spots. Posts deemed not suitable for curation will have their promotional 3 STEEM refunded. This feature is for the moment manual but will be automated in the future.
Furthermore, our app also allows one to do anything that could be expected from a Steem front-end: logging in, voting, posting, managing the wallet, etc.
The development team and the source code
The version (v0.1) released on October 1st was developed entirely by @hightouch and @planetenamek from @fundition. However, their time is not unlimited, and it was clear from the start that some new developer will have to take over for them at some point.
Whilst this position is still open (please contact us on discord if interested), @lemouth decided that he needed to add javascript mastery to his diverse set of skills and is now performing app development duties, under the guidance of @hightouch.
As a result, today SteemSTEM proudly announces version v0.2 of its app. For those interested, the source code is open access and available from our SteemSTEM GitHub repository.
Change log for steemstem.io v0.2
Two post display bugs have been corrected. First, a variety of user comments were previously appearing in the main page, wrongly tagged by the platform as full posts. Secondly, the filtering mechanism to only show posts upvoted by steemstem was not properly functioning, resulting in loss of posts that should have been displayed.
There were also issues with the creation of new posts. Posts can now be constructed and published with the steemstem.io app without any problem. The layout of the 'create post' page has moreover been improved and the management of draft posts has been fixed and ameliorated. It is now possible to save multiple post drafts for later publishing.
Finally, on the more minor side, a few (in principle invisible) backend bugs have been fixed, making the code cleaner in terms of the number of error messages printed on a console, and the problem with the sign-in button being half outside the page has been fixed.
To-do list towards steemstem.io v0.3
In the next release, we aim to add a few extra features.
- Post editing will be enabled (yes, this important feature is still missing).
- It will be made possible to include post beneficiaries when posting from steemstem.io.
- Draft preview will be added.
- Additional minor bug fixes and implementation of community feedback.
Moreover, please do not hesitate to report any bug in the comments to this post, as well as to suggest any feature you would like us to develop.
For more information about the SteemSTEM project, feel free to follow @steemstem, have a look to the last news from the project or read our latest distilled.
Please also consider to support the project by voting for the SteemSTEM Witness (@stem.witness) or delegating to @steemstem for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP).
That's what attracted me to Steemit and SteemSTEM. In fact, I found Steemit while searching for an alternative method to publish my work. I am a retired researcher and I have lots of useful but Unpublished Data and now I have the time to write it up. I've got raw data backups, draft manuscripts, posters, and presentations that I can assemble into posts and publish them on SteemSTEM.
Sounds great!
Feel free to publish them here! :)
It'd be awesome to see that kind of work see the light of day.
Thank you for the up-date! Good to know that you are in progress.
I guess, this one is important, maybe you should highlight it or make it more visible for those who might not see it first time reading:
To be save: It means, once I posted an article with steemit.io and it's published I cannot edit it, right?
I don't know when I will post a STEM-realted article but I for sure will try it out sooner or later.
Also the question could rise how a user knows if he is whitelisted or not. Is there an opportunity to look this up?
I am curious about the user experiences. :)
That is correct, the ability to edit a post is not yet enabled. However we are getting there!
No, but a database listing all white-listers on a separate tab on steemstem.io sounds like a great idea. For instance you are white-listed (high quality psychology content) but perhaps you don't even know!
Thank you!
Correct. One does not know. :) Would be nice to see it. Though I don't know if it does not stirr up some controversial debates when it's published somewhere?
By the way, you are in it ;)
For editing a post you need to rely on another app like steemit, busy or steempeak. The post can be edited, but not from steemstem.io for now. I will fix this as soon as possible (this is the item number one on my to-do list ;) )
Thanks, this addition is important, I find.
You've got many things to do, no? :-) Have fun!
The list contains about 30 entries so far. And I am still learning javascript ;)
This is a great improvement. The entire development team are doing a really great job.
I hope to try out the new steemstem.io v0.2 for my next stem post and have a feeling of it.
Go steemSTEM 🚀🚀
Great! We hope to keep improving it! Let us know how it works out for you and what else you would like to see incorporated in the post generation process (other than a post preview, which is already planned/in the works).
Please try it out and don't hesitate to share your user's experience. Community feedback consists in what will drive the next developments :)
Good move
Can't hurt to have that ability
Yep! It is also quite easy (I think) to implement. Let's see in a few weeks ;)
Great work. Delighted to see steemstem.io steaming ahead.
Slowly and slowly it will :)
Great work you guys, keep it up !!
Thanks man!
Thanks @mcfarhat! :)
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Draft preview does it for me :)
One day my friend :D
I'm hopeful :D
I think it would be useful to add a 'view this post on steemstem.io' button/link somewhere in every article/digest/news item posted here, for easy access. The reader may have navigated here through steemit.com for whatever reason, and may be too lazy to search for the article manually, but may still want to give you his not-at-all-hard-earned Brave BAT money by viewing this post on the steemstem platform.