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RE: Exploring Featured Posts
What is a community? Do you mean a hashtag community or a platform community like Steemit.com could be a community and Busy.org could be another community, or what does community mean? Does it have something to do with groups or witnesses or people you follow or something else?
Communities is a planned feature that could be thought of similarly to subreddits, but can also be used in conjunction with user's individual blogs. The back-end software for this feature is Hivemind which is a non-consensus data layer for Steem that makes adding new social features much more trivial to implement than directly at the blockchain level. All posts and comments on steemit.com are currently powered by Hivemind which shipped earlier this year.
Justin, so, is a subreddit more like a Facebook group or more like a sub-category of a forum, a message board? I guess, like a forum as Reddit is a forum. But I see a forum as similar to Facebook groups. Different layout but same purpose behind a Reddit and FB group it would seem.
When are communities coming? Sounds exciting. Thanks.