SBD splitting tool only encounters errors, Broken functionality

Splitting SBD is a hassle when there are more than a few users - to manually click through everybody's transactions and send them an equal amount of SBD - there must be a better way!

There is - welcome to steemlit, part of the steeme suite of tools by @asbear. Its a fantastic idea - it just happens to be broken right now.

_{Here is the tool!}

So this tool has a few different visualization features, but lets click on the Send SBD tab to see the SBD split section. Here we need to fill in a few fields to get the transactions going.

_{Put a name in the box}

It took me a while to figure this part out - the gray text says it clearly, put the names in with a space. If you use and @ or a comma, the names will just disappear.

_{Are you sure about the comma?}

Oh yeah, it will disappear, making you think the whole project doesn't work and just eats names.

_{Back to the beginning}

But no, use a space and you will see that it does indeed register the names. Lets enter some names now.

_{These are my friends}

Ok, so apart from that weird disappearing act, we can now enter all of our information into the correct fields and everything seems to be working great.

We personally reviewed the code on github and cannot find anything unsafe about using this tool. No secret code that saves or sends your active key, just normal, basic functionality. In the future we want to add steemconnect, but it seems to need manual confirmation for every name in the split!

There is always more to develop!

_{Data all loaded nice and neat}

Ok, now lets click on submit and see what happens. We want the SBD to be tranfered to their wallets in equal parts.

_Errors!

We see here that something is broken. It says that ecoinstant is an invalid account name, when I am sure that my account is valid. I then suspect that the way that this application is treating the variables is not the way the blockchain understands them.

Further experiementation is required, but it seems like something that is very fixable, as long as the application can speak the same language as the blockchain.

_{Retry? Same error.}

Like a good tester I retried, but the same error appeared. In the coming days we would like to pick apart this code and get this tool working, but I wanted to get this bug report up in the meantime to get any interested utopian user on the case.

The whole idea of opensource development is that we can work together to make these tools and to make them work and to make them better. @asbear has built some interesting stuff, and this particular tool is a functionality that is much needed for those who run contests and share payouts.

Love and Light to All!

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