SteemPeak - Update v2.0 - Guest 'Social' Logins and New Burn Promotion System
A new version of SteemPeak is now available. This is probably the largest update we have released this year and I (@asgarth) will not be able to cover everything in great details in this single post. But there are some exciting new features that we hope you will like and that are a big part of our future plan to onboard users on Steem. Some of the features will be probably highlighted in separate posts in the coming weeks.
The new release is now live at https://steempeak.com
1. Guest 'Social' Logins
Starting with this release users that don't own a Steem account (yet) will be able to login to steempeak.com using their Facebook, Google or GitHub accounts.
This users will get a 'guest' account and will be able to configure their experience, have their own profile page and explore Steem according to their preferences. Each new account will get a random username (minimum 17 characters to avoid collision with Steem usernames) generated by the system. This is a sample of my own 'guest' account profile page:
And in the following table you can view a features comparison between Steem and Guest account:
As you can see we plan to enable more features for the guest accounts in the coming weeks/months.
2. New Burn Promotion System
The next big thing in this release is the Burn Promotion System. You can now promote your posts on SteemPeak burning STEEM and with a small fee (10% of the total amount).
The system can be extended to be used by other frontends and we'll be happy to support them if they are interested in this system.
To promote a post check out this page and specify all the required details. Promoted posts will be included in the Topic feeds.
3. Rework the Explore page header menu
The top menu in the Explore page has been updated to allow more options and to be more useful and easy to configure. Now it's possible to add 'favorite' users, topics, curators directly from the menu.
4. Merge the old HTML editor with the Markdown editor
Due to some issues with the previous HTML editor I decided to switch to a single editor that will allow you to work both in Markdown and HTML. So the new editor is exactly the same for both styles, but the syntax will be updated according to your preference.
5. Allow post scheduling via Keychain
If you have granted the posting authority to the @steempeak.app account you can now schedule post publishing also when you logged in the Steem Keychain. To grant the posting authority check your Settings page.
6. Enabled the Battlegames tribe
The Battlegames tribe is now enabled. Check it out here.
7. Show Scot rewards in the claim reward panel (Wallet page)
Thanks to an update in the Scotbot API (kudos to @eonwarped for this) we are now able to display the amount of the rewards in the claim panel.
8. Some bug fixes and minor improvements
And as expected with a major release there is a large amount of small fixes and improvements ;)
Support the @steempeak witness/proposals
Now is probably a nice time to remind you of the ways you can support the development of @steempeak.
Recently we submitted a proposal to the Steem Proposals System (SPS). You can review the proposal here and directly on the proposal page.
If you agree to the proposal and you think the points mentioned add value to Steem consider supporting it using the above links or directly with this link.
We also run a witness server to help produce the blocks for the Steem Blockchain. You can vote for our witness so we are in a position to process more of them.
Vote on out profile page: @steempeak
Vote on the witness page: https://steempeak.com/witnesses
- Using Keychain: You just have to click and approve the transaction
- Using SteemConnect: You'll need access to confirm the transaction with your Active Key at least
The SteemPeak Team
About us: https://steempeak.com/about
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/6hCAcVp
Guest accounts are really cool. Hopefully the masses will begin to flood in then demand real steem accounts.
Checking witness vote and voting on your proposal. Thanks for all you do.
Thanks for your support ;)
You're a machine, Asgarth! :)
Thanks man !!
Guest logins sound great. We need easy ways for people to start getting involved with Steem. I have created accounts with RCs for people. It would be cool to have ways to use that to upgrade guests to full users. Exciting times.
Thanks for the feedback. We already thought to different ways to upgrade the account (and using RC will be one of the way to do it). We just need a bit more time to complete all we have planned :D
I understand we will get RC delegation eventually, so that may open options. I am really liking the Steempeak user experience. You are heading in the right direction.
I noticed the update in my wallet and came to check for a release post immediately. congrats on the guest account its a step in the right direction, look forward to seeing how many people take you up on the offer and convert to full steemains from it.
Most excited about the burn program and that it can be extended to other front ends I'll be sure to mention it those still bid botting
Thanks. We plan to add more features to complete our onboarding plans so guest accounts will be able to upgrade to full Steem account just using the platform as guests ;)
And I'm excited about the burn system too. Hope it is something the community will find useful ;)
Awesome updates! Thanks for all the hard work.
Thank you very much :)
You guys deserve every support you get. Keep up the good work!
Thanks !!
I dont think people are aware of how essential Guest accounts are.
It is the only thing, alongside price increase, that will lead to mass adoption. SMTs are being promoted as something that will be a great mover, and in terms of price it might be, but we need to realize that when it comes to tokenizing the internet all these SMTs that will be built will first need to create a value proposition.
As we have seen with Steem-engine that is incredibly difficult.
But what has already developed that value proposition?
STEEM, ofc.
For every website that might be interested in creating their own token they need to pass through a number of phases to develop value and adopt something that might or might not benefit them. While you and i understand what an SMT is and what crypto is, the mainstream user of the SMT creation tool will know neither.
First they will need to learn what crypto is and how this could benefit them, then they need to understand the basics of STEEM and then they need to develop a plan for their token.
Thats a lot of work that most will not be willing to do.
These guest accounts and their potential utilization can be seamless.
User experience is something very few people on steem have bothered with during these last few years.
Ive mentioned website Steem comment section integration in your discord channel today and i really think that is where you guys should gravitate towards with these guests accounts. Peaking (no pun intended) interest via partnerships that require 0 work from the site owners, first with crypto publishing websites and then further, while rewarding or creating the potential to reward engagement on their sites.
Anyways... I went too long with this. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for all the ideas you shared. I totally agree that guest accounts can be a big deal and it's the big building block for our onboarding platform. Also because we plan to make it easy (and hopefully funny) for those accounts to earn a full Steem account.
As always, fantastic update :)
I would like to sugest adding SBD as promotion payment as we need to burn those too :)
Thanks. I would like to test the sytem with STEEM and add other options later (when we'll probably have SMTs and SE tokens too).
Nice :)
Thanks for this update!
The guest social logins are a great idea.
Are you planning to offer a mobile app (ios or android)?
Thanks. A mobile app is planned, but not sure when we'll have the time to work on it :D