Utopian has its own Community Driven Witness that has been running since 2 months ranked 34.

Here the original announcement.

We have just updated the witness, running now a full Witness Backup Server and a Failover script.

Backup Witness

Utopian is running a top-notch virtualised backup witness machine, upgradable in the blink of an eye with the following specs:

32 GB/4 CPUs 90GB SSD disk 5 TB transfer

Thanks @netuoso for setting this up

Failover Script

Utopian is also running a failover script that will start as soon as the main Utopian witness server starts missing blocks. The failover script uses the Twilio APIs to notify a manager as soon as the witness server starts missing blocks and the failover script starts.

Thanks @netuoso for setting this up

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

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Due to an incredible amount of translations we are receiving we must pause this category until 11 January 4PM CET. You won’t be able to use the translation category until that date. Rule changes also apply, read below.

Paused Translations Contributions

Nothing shows the situation better than this chart.

Due to the big number of translations we are pausing contributions on this category Until 11 January 4PM CET in order to avoid your contributions going unvoted.

Rule Changes

The following rule changes will apply starting 11 January 4PM CET.

• Minimum 1000 words translated, unless the entire project has a total amount of words smaller than 1000. Rewards will be increased accordingly.

• Translations that are obviously machine translated or where the moderator recognises low quality will be rejected immediately, without asking for enhancements. A temporary ban may be applied if the contributors keeps submitting low quality contributions. A lifetime ban may apply after multiple notifications.

• More rules may be applied before the category is opened back on 11 January 4PM CET. An official rule update post will be provided with the final rules.

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

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In Utopian.io we have a lot of development streams in place and many to come. Keep reading to know the main future milestones and what we are working on right now and it is ready to be rolled out!

Functionalities Already Under Development / Ready to be Rolled Out

- Utopian Registration Module

@therealwolf is working on the most important step in our roadmap, the utopian registration module, that will let users to signup for Steem/Utopian directly from Utopian.io.

The registration module is under development and will be deployed soon.

Have a look: https://signup.utopian.io/

The registration module is Open Source https://github.com/utopian-io/utopian-registration-frontend

- Integrate Your App With Utopian

@samrg472 has refactored the API and the DB in order to let external applications to post into Utopian. This possibility was initially suggested by @good-karma and we are ready to roll it out. A full public documentation will be soon released on Apiary.

- New Moderation Functionalities

Thanks to @mooncryption and @samrg472 the Utopian Moderators will be soon be able to:

• Edit the repository on behalf of the user
• Edit the category cross-site on behalf of the user
• Edit tags on behalf of the user

This is extremely important to reduce the waiting times in the moderation process.

- Automation Utopian Weekly

The Utopian Weekly is a newsletter we publish every week, bringing visibility to the best projects, the newest projects and the best contributions. The Utopian Weekly has been stopped for a while now since we had issues finding a curator. We decided to automate it. It is ready to go and will be published on a weekly basis.

Thanks to @mkt for this. The Utopian Weekly is Open Source: https://github.com/utopian-io/utopian-weekly.

- The Utopian NPM Package

Thanks to the great spontaneous work of @wehmoen Utopian now has an official NPM package.

Read the original contribution

- A Bunch Of Bots / Automation Scripts

Thanks to the amazing work being made @emrebeyler Utopian has rolled out and is rolling out a bunch of bots and automation scripts

• The utopian.tip bot that up votes the Utopian Moderators top comments: https://github.com/utopian-io/utopian-tip
• A bot that automatically moves 1K from utopian-io to utopian.org overtime 10K Steem are generated in curation rewards. This will serve to donate to charities and for the Utopian Edu programs.
• A bunch of other utilities https://github.com/utopian-io/scripts

On The Horizon

On top of the list we have a bunch of bug fixes and the following main milestones.

- The Utopian Roadmap

Our main priority for this month will be to create the final Utopian Roadmap that we will follow to go from the current Utopian version to Utopian V2.

- The Kickstarter Video And Campaign

The Kickstarter video being produced by @dougkarr is almost ready. We are working on the contents of the Kickstarter campaign that will be hopefully out this January.

- Utopian V2

Do you want to see how Utopian will look like in the new version 2?

The Development of Utopian V2 will start after the Kickstarter campaign and may take up to 6 months to be finalised. Releases will be incremental.

Discover Utopian V2 on Invision: https://invis.io/MSEWW3A6Z

- Internal Delegation Split

Internal Delegation Split that will let sponsors to split the delegated power to the different projects using Utopian.

The development of the Internal Delegation split has been postponed and will happen after the Kickstarter campaign.

- Utopian Bounties

Will be possible to create bounties in liquid Steem on task requests and to assign bounties to a single contributor or to a list of beneficiaries. (development will start after the Kickstarter campaign)

- Utopian Promotional Placements

As a contributor or project owner you will be able to promote your contributions, yourself or your project in Utopian by buying placements on the main sections of the website, using a pay per click model, payable with liquid Steem. (development will start after the Kickstarter campaign)

- Utopian Contributions Automation

Utopian will soon implement third party integrations, Github first, that will let contributors to automate their submissions to Utopian while working on their favourite platforms. (development will start after the Kickstarter campaign)

- Utopian Browser Extension

Utopian has been working on a browser extension to bring the Utopian functionalities directly into Github. This is still part of our roadmap and the development will be resumed after the Kickstarter campaign.

Quality Quality Quality And Quality Again

Utopian has one dream: To become the first mover for top quality contributions in the entire Steem blockchain. We work hard every day to get there and this is our long term commitment and promise to never stop trying to achieve the best quality possible!

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

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Today we experienced a bug. For more than 30 hours our DB could not be updated.

The bug is fixed.

• Contributions are now being updated normally.
• The bot will start voting again once it reaches 100% voting power.
• Duplicate comments from the bot have been manually deleted.

Thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.

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We have detected a serious bug in our database. The Utopian database is not synced correctly with the blockchain since the last 30 hours. This has produced the following:

• Some contributions have been upvoted twice with a lower weight than the previous vote. Unfortunately this is irreversible. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have created.

• Some contributions will not show the most updated contents and number of upvotes in Utopian. This will be fixed as soon as the DB is fully synced.

• The bot had to be stopped from voting. Won’t be resumed until the issue is over.

BIWEEKLY Postponed

Due to this issue the BIWEEKLY that was going to happen today at 4PM CET will have to be postponed.

New date for the BIWEEKLY is Monday January 8, 4PM CET.

UPDATES

We will write a post as soon as the issue is over.

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In Utopian.io we believe development contributions are probably the most fundamental ones, unluckily this category is one of the less used. The reasons are:

• Developers do not like to write about their work. In Utopian we promise we will automate the process almost completely.
• Rewards were low. We just doubled them up.

Doubled Up The Reward Pool For Development Category

We have just changed the reward pool reserved to the development category and double it up. In order to do this we had to reduce the rewards from other categories, mainly the translations category.

The reason why we opted to remove a portion of the reward pool from the translations category is because Utopian is now being inundated by contributions in this category. This is very cool, but at the same time translations are eating most of the reward pool.

This is a temporary change. Will get back to normal once:

• Rules in the translations category will be enhanced. Proposals for new enhancements will come in this BIWEEKLY January 5, 4 PM CET.
• More contributions will be coming in the development category.

Developers Time To Work Your A** Off

Start contributing to the development of Open Source projects right away and get high rewards from Utopian. Want some suggestions?

• Contribute to Steemit Condenser
• Contribute to Busy.org from @busy.org
• Contribute to esteem app buy @good-karma
• Contribute to Vessel from @jesta
• Contribute to any of the many amazing projects by @netuoso
• Contribute to dtube by @heimindanger
• Contribute to Steem Plus by @stoodkev
• Contribute to the Steem Bot Tracker by @yabapmatt

Lets use this opportunity to grow your wallet and the Steem ecosystem, especially now that the Steem value is flying!

Did we convince you? Now time to work!

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

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