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).
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