RE: Don't Be A Pole Dancing Sloth
There is no periodic rate for posting on Steemthat.com. This is just fud. Posting was temporarily removed as we redesigned the UI. Now when you submit a post and try to add an image you can. The search icon is not covering up the upload botton anymore. The navigation was 7 pages. You had draft posts, pending posts, edit posts, my posts etc...All of that is under one page under communit social portal as a drop down. so much easier with everything on one page verses 7. Loads much faster too now.
We did fix some things with regards to posting and what can and cant be added and submitted. Automated on thw back side. Unless you are a spammer you will never notice. Instead of allowing 500 main categories and people spamming a food article to steemthat now you get one main category just like steemit and we lowered tags to 3. We want high quality focused content. The new ui reflects that. Posts must have titles now. This was fixed in the update. So much improvement in such little time. 😀 I really do need to create an update and version number system that reflects what changes and growth has been made over time. The amount of days spent developing is really crazy. I hope https://stish.io isnt as cumbersome to develop
When I first wrote and mentioned the periodic rates, I had no idea that some other(s) had also mentioned it. But the impetus for me writing that was the result of my logging onto steemthat one day, (with the purpose of making a new original post), discovering that the posting options were nowhere to be found, and seeing a big membership tier layout starting with free, and then the prices of all the higher tiers listed after that. Without knowing anything else, how do you think you would have reacted, presented with the same scenario?
I didn't do or say anything to anyone after that first login after the changes. I figured that since you obviously had made some big changes, that maybe you messed up and accidentally deleted the posting links. So I left and gave it a few days. Logged in again, and there still was no posting link. I drew, at that point, the only logical conclusion I could - to post, you had to get a membership, either free or pay, even if you had already been a member. Some of the language that I found somewhere on the site suggested to me, (I could have misunderstood), that free members may not have posting rights on the site - it wasn't clear. I clicked on the apply as free member link and saw a message that I thought said something like, if you choose this option you won't be able to get any other option - or something like that. I went no further, not understanding anything I was encountering.
When I saw your post, I decided to ask about my experience logging in, post changes, and to try to relay some of my surprise and wonder from my experience, attempting to recreate what the experience represented to me, someone who had recently joined and had no reason to expect such a dramatic change all of a sudden. It affected how I thought of the site in terms of stability at that point. My intention was never to diss your site in any way, but to illustrate that was my understanding from visiting to make a post, finding that I couldn't, and then trying to find out what was going on after the changes were in place.
I really do appreciate the feedback. We need to be more careful with changes we make and also somehow make sure members know if we are making changes that will potentially impact them. In our beta testing I just assume most people will find things and we can test things.
We do not plan on any major design changes anytime soon and most things are being brought back with their new design or purpose. We have no stability issues just in beta and cleaning things up and making everything smoother for the end user.
Steemit has not fixed this in like 6 months...
No one seams concerned but me. That makes me wonder if Steemit has serious issues. If SteemThat.com wasn't fixing things and making improvements then I would be worried.
@free-reign feel free to join the support group on SteemThat.com and bring up any questions you might have. If you are having concerns or issues with the website then others might be as well and we could help alot of people find solution the best that way. We can work on things to make improvements and user feedback helps us get better.
I see that in the wallet. I've thought it's just showing the base level where we start, likely because what's supposed to display there usually, isn't displaying - a bug as you suggest. I have seen a couple of times where it has shown my current level, and my cover image on my wallet page. And while it usually says 25 there with black background, everywhere else shows my actual level. I don't think it's somehow actually having an effect on reputation, but I could be wrong. It doesn't look like a big issue to me though.
I'd be glad to offer feedback on issues on the site, but I think the main issue with my experience after the changes, was just being surprised and then not seeing any guidance about the changes. You may want to incorporate a banner or something on the site that will inform and/or direct users on what's going on and how to proceed after changes. Or even better, also plan site changes and announce them before implementation.
I think that is the solution. We are coming up on the end of the completion of the road map illustrated in the white paper. We can create a new roadmap soon and update the white paper. I think we will create a changelog style page with major updates and what changed since the last update. Improvements update really.We could just copy and paste things from the white paper from time to time that we are about to implement. I don't think we really need half of the docs we have now as no one reads them. We need simple one pagers and a solid notification system if we have any major updates. Hopefully we come out of beta soon and really just work on bug fixes.
Steemit used to show the correct banners and rep on every page. I hate the new logo which isn't new to many. I had just bought a ton of shirts after they opened the store. Then about 2 weeks later without any notice they changed the logo. It reminded me of buying a fave sports team jersey back in the day to find out they decided to change the whole look or move cities. I can appreciate the shock you must have been under. I had invested a ton and they knew they were changing logos. At least I hope they knew.
We will try to avoid such issue in the future. Thanks for the ideas and feedback. It will help us make improvements.