Weekly Top of Utopian.io: September 19 - September 26

Despite the technical challenges presented by the Steem blockchain upgrade (HF20), and with many team members attending the Utopian and SteemSTEM meetup in Italy, this week did not lack remarkable contributions made to open source projects through Utopian. These contributions include entries from the Blog, Development and Video-Tutorials categories. In addition, we included one older gem from the Graphics category.

Be sure to check out these stellar contribution posts, and use them as an example to improve your own contribution submissions to Utopian.

Staff Picks

PHP Tutorial #05 Array Methods (Array_Chunk, Array_Combine, Array_Count_Values and Array_Product) by @alexendre-maxim [video-tutorials]

This week @alexendre-maxim presented us with part 5 of his PHP video tutorial series. He has spent a great deal of effort refining his video tutorial skills to improve his contributions and it is showing in his work. This tutorial has good video and audio quality, and is well planned and laid out for learners.

Total payout: 51.78 STU Number of votes: 29

Logo proposal to Fantasy Premier League API [Task Request] by @ggabogarcia [graphics]

A Python wrapper around the Fantasy Premier League API created by @amosbastian. It was build to help other developers call FPL API. Amos requested the community to make a cool logo and @ggabogarcia was the one hitting the nail on the head and delivering awesome work. He put a great effort into finding the correct way to draw both symbols - lion and python. He even recorded himself tracing the sketch into vectors.

Total payout: 69.65 STU Number of votes: 105

SteemQA (beta release) - 3rd Progress Report by @irelandscape [blog]

@irelandscape follows his previous updates about the Questions/Answers app that runs on top of the Steem blockchain. This time, we can see its third update filled with many important changes such as the new name of the app, which is now Quearn, and technical details that are on par with the top contributions we can witness in the development category.

The latest update includes several feature additions to improve the user experience. All of it is presented in a well-structured and fromated post that lets everyone read the news in comfort.

Total payout: 1.50 STU Number of votes: 43

Towards a reputation system suitable for SteemSTEM by @lemouth [development]

_{Credits: @hightouch}

We have seen a few attempts at creating new and more reliable reputation systems on the Steem blockchain. @lemouth presents another one, which could be used for future purposes of the SteemSTEM group and the STEM writers.

The aim of this new system is to equally consider the authorship component and the engagement component. Although the initial implementation has not satisfied all expectations of such a new system, community members have brought some of refreshing ideas to deal with a number of the issues.

Such contributions belong amongst the top, as it is also complemented with a detailed post and a lot of information describing the idea and implementation of the new reputation system.

Total payout: 51.06 STU Number of votes: 1304

Minecolonies & Epic Guard Rework! by @raycoms [development]

Minecolonies is a mod for the game Minecraft, adding many unique and interesting features to the game. Minecolonies is an actively developed game and there have been regular updates on its development through Utopian.

In this case, we got the latest updates from @raycoms, who worked on fixes and reworking of recent functionalities. His post is full of technical details regarding the implementation, with lots of excerpts of the relevant code passages. Thus, one can easily follow the development progress on top of checking the commit history of the project.

Total payout: 17.93 STU Number of votes: 99

Utopian.io Post Statistics

The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.

Overall, the last week saw a total of 187 posts, with 180 of them rewarded through an upvote by @utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 2613.99 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 153.261 STU, with a total of 223 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Towards a reputation system suitable for SteemSTEM, with no less than 68 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 55.62 STU.

Category Statistics

|Category|Reviewed|Rewarded|Total rewards|Top contributor| |:-|:-|:-|-:|:-| |ideas|4|2|3.93 STU|@muhammadarif| |iamutopian|7|7|0.00 STU|@tykee| |analysis|1|1|63.77 STU|@paulag| |development|25|24|234.26 STU|@miniature-tiger| |translations|96|96|1798.43 STU|@dedicatedguy| |graphics|13|13|260.31 STU|@camiloferrua| |tutorials|10|9|34.38 STU|@onepice| |video-tutorials|2|2|68.76 STU|@alexendre-maxim| |blog|19|17|82.34 STU|@actifit| |copywriting|1|1|67.80 STU|@hiremani| |bug-hunting|4|4|0.00 STU|@josephace135|

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