100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 17 - Communities Brainstorm
Time does fly on the blockchain but it is only two months ago today that Communities were officially launched on Steem.
That was only our initial offering but still many, many dozens of Communities have since been formed covering a wide range of topics from beer to poetry, and from alien art to urban exploration.
The first version of Communities had quite a basic feature set.
Now we are looking to take them to the next level, but we need your help.
The Communities Brainstorm
Many of you have used communities, and many of you are still using them.
We are sure therefore you will have ideas on how to make them even better.
We want to hear from you...
What new features would you like adding?
What existing features could be improved?
Is the setup procedure too difficult, or even too basic in what options are offered?
Do you find them easy to manage?
Are they confusing to use, or totally straightforward?
Would some form of contextual help system be useful?
Are there any extra features or facilities that would make it easier to promote your communities outside of Steem and to attract new members?
Please give us your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions. Post them in the comments below or better still make a post about them.
We will be giving upvotes for the best comments and posts.
A second version of Communities is firmly in our current planning. We are already working on a few changes that have come from previous feedback.
Once we have heard from you we will see what can be incorporated in Communities v2 and then firm up our development schedules.
If you want to see a new Community in action @danmaruschak has just launched the Steem Game Development Community…
Welcome to the Steem Game Development community
https://steemit.com/hive-126363/@danmaruschak/welcome-to-the-steem-game-development-community
If you are interested in developing games on Steem do join up.
We are looking forward to reading your ideas and suggestions!
Thank you,
The Steemit Team
REMINDER - The Community Curators Project
We have had almost 50 applications so far from people and projects who would like to be Community Curators.
The closing date for the first round is 21 April so there is still a day or so if you want to make an application...
- 100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 3 – The Community Curators Project
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/100-days-of-steem-day-3-the-community-curators-project
The Communities feature is a real game changer for the Steemit platform and it has a huge impact on the way we interact, post, and curate for contents. The fact that a community leader can manage the contents in the community without affecting the rest of the things outside the community is very helpful.
Although the current features of the Community is a good starting point there are still improvement that I think will be beneficial to the Steem users.
Can't wait to experience any improvement with the Community feature. I'm glad that the Steemit Team is working on this aspect of the User Experience.
Thanks a lot for your hardwork guys!
I like the idea to add fora to the communities.
I like to see the presence of an experienced Steemian here.
Thank you for these very good suggestions.
The Steemit Team
Hi @steemitblog
First, thanks for the recent support!
Some ideas for communities:
Social sharing buttons on the community page.
Change Hive-1234567 to a marketable slug (name of community)
Make communities resource credit free. (an option to delegate to communities)
Option to categorize communities by language preference/sector (easy navigation)
The previous owner of Steemit had no idea what he was doing, therefore communities were marketed the wrong way. Now it is just used as a tag basically. There is no added value. UI is a big issue, also fast and hasslefree onboarding.
Change markdown (most noobs and people who don't blog often have no clue what HTML or Markdown is, KISS)
#STEEM
Totally agree, it is important that it be done
Thanks! To attract the simple user it just has to be simple af.
Great ideas here. We are looking at all of these now.
Thank you
The Steemit Team
One minor thing:
the community page should 'understand' HTML everywhere, also in the description. I tried to embed the link to the community Discord, but in steemit.com it looks like this (however, in SteemPeak the same code works correctly):
Thank you for this point. We will look at this now.
The Steemit Team
Sounds good. :)
I have another minor suggestion, not concerning communities but the blog main site. I think the option to display my followers and also the accounts I am following in alphabetical order would very useful and easy to implement.
Sometimes for example I am seeking a certain follower but don't know the exact spelling of his name anymore. Then it would help a lot to know the first letter, if names were ordered alphabetically.
The order in Steemit.com is only from the newest to the older followers:
Furthermore if I click at "following" the next title is "Followed" - why not just "Following" again (or even better a whole sentence like "People you follow")?
And as we are here, I suggest you to read my old post about editor issues. Again SteemPeak (and also https://steemd.com/) shows my exact original HTML code when I reopen an old post, but in steemit.com the formatting looks weird: That was the article.
Thanks for these extra suggestions.
I created two issues on condenser's github following the release of communities. one two
They are really small issues, that can get fixed in <1 hour, and it would greatly increase the usability of communities.
Please fix them. When everything is working as intended, then you can think about adding more features.
Thanks for these - we will take a look.
The Steemit Team
Agree!!!
I would like the features where you can add categories in the community. For example in xpillar community, there are a category of art, photography, health and etc so it looks more organize and easier for the reader to go through the post in the communities.
good idea @cryptokannon
Thank you for this suggestion. We are looking to see how this can be done.
The Steemit Team
Ask @roadscape.
Dear diary,
It's already Day 17 of 100 Days of Steem and they were asking for help.
That is not necessarily a bad thing as they should listen to the sentiments of the community in which they should have done in the first place. Before all of this fiasco and bad PR that happened, if they listened to the community, everything would have been smooth moving forward. But they didn't. So here we are.
Wait. Even if they will listen to the community now, who will implement the changes? Hmmm.
How about instead of brainstorming new ideas and improvements, you address one of the biggest issues with the Steem blockchain right now in regards to the broken state and constant forking... The Steem blockchain is forking several times per hour because you guys decided it would be a good to be childish and block some prominent witnesses who start a rival blockchain forked off of Steem.
You do realise as a result that those running Steem nodes are having a difficult time keeping their nodes in sync because of these issues you've created? This then flows on to instability within Steem-based dApps and it just reflects badly on the Steem blockchain as a whole.
Is there anyone competent left over at Steemit who knows what they're doing anymore? Evidence suggests otherwise.
lulzzzz How about instead of hanging around on the steem blockchain, you guys fix the chain-id on the hive blockchain? Good luck with that one!!!
I am just counting down the days until I am officially out of this place. In the meantime, I love reading all of the faux-optimism and seeing people in the community suck up to those with large delegations and influence left on Steem. Enjoy your dying blockchain. Anyone who knew how this blockchain operated and maintained its integrity has mostly left now. You've just got the bitter desperados looking to make money left here now. Look at the trending page, embarassing.
Hi @steemitblog team
Community launch is a great addition on the platform and it has given variety to users and content creators. I am not the owner of any community however as a user I see that there should be an on an option to report users to the owner or MODS. I see some users are adding low quality or plagiarized content and I understand that mods are taking care of it but if I come across any post which should not there then I should be able to inform them and it's their call if they find it worthy or not. If this option is added then it will help mods to find the post easily and make the community a better place.
I go through the various post every day to read then reporting any post will not take long to me but there is a possibility that mods might miss out if daily post volume is high. So my suggestion is to add an option where any user can report the post but mods can take the final call of course. Thanks.
Good idea! (Even if my own fora are so small that so far I am able to read every entry myself.)
Thank you.
Good idea, thank you.
The Steemit Team
Thanks.