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RE: It's Time for STEM to Have its Own Home on Steem: Announcing steemstem.io
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[Well I made a separate comment and deleted it to repost here:]
Oh boy!
I'll skip the flattery and proceed to the constructive criticism! I always use steemit on a laptop, never on a phone. I think it would look better if the top part (header) of the screen were more substantial somehow. The steemstem logo could use some enlarging, and the promoted post section could have smaller headings, or something that won't obstruct the images so much. I like how the posts below the promoted posts look, for instance. Also something to more clearly set apart the promoted section from the posts below, cos as it is it looks like just a different arrangement of the same thing, horizontally vs vertically.
Other than that it looks great to me!
Awesome, thanks. I've been nailing down the aesthetics the whole time so I appreciate some more opinions. I will add this to the list and see what we can do in the coming weeks. We already have in mind some of the things you mentioned so you'll be seeing some changes fairly soon, I suspect
I've just read agmoore's new post on steemstem.io and I must say it looks gorgeous there! Very professional and stylish. The steemit version seems amateurish by comparison. I'll definitely be doing my reading there!
Having said that, a few observations and possible bugs:
I was looking at the comment section for a bit before I understood how to comment and how comments are grouped. The continuous border line gives the impression that it's a single comment, and the 'reply' nested within it makes you think you're replying to a specific comment rather than the post.
The 'follow' (the author) button was a teeny bit late to respond.
Are the comments deliberately shown in the order in which they were made rather than the voted amount?
I can't vote on the comments! ... No wait, I can. But my cursor doesn't change when I hover over the heart, so I didn't realize I could.
When I hover over the 'reply' button (reply to post, not reply to comment) the cursor changes to a typing tool.
When I voted on a comment, my vote didn't show until I refreshed the page.
The quote signs in the quotes, at least in the post itself, would be better-looking if they were bigger and if the second quote mark was placed at the end of the last line.
It may be just habit, but I have an easier time reading and responding to comments on steemit. Maybe it's a size thing again, maybe the comment section could be made a bit larger.
I checked out the posting interface. I clicked the button that expands it to the whole screen, and then didn't see any button to go back!
Btw I'm using the Brave browser.
Thanks for this second feedback. We have added everything to the list (OK most of it was already on it :p).
Note that the comment ordering thing will probably lead to two options for the user: ordered by value and by date.
Once again, thanks for this very detailed feedback. I cannot when those will be tackled, but they will be at some point ^^
A vote for poor mobbs for having to actually implement the constructive criticisms.
Beers are on me when we first meet!
True. It's easy to just look at it and sense that something is vaguely imperfect, than to actually come up with design ideas on how to fix it and implement them.
I was checking out https://news.bitcoin.com/ last night and I thought it was a good example of how they get it right (though I like the lower section of Steemstem.io more). But look at how they made everything in the top section bigger. Basically it's the same except the color palette and size.
It's not criticism, it's constructive feedback. You're a beta tester and we will have to all look long and hard for every minute thing we can find wrong, improve, change etc.
If we really want to change how science is discussed on the internet this beta release is the first step of a marathon run. However at least the race has begun.
Thanks for this constructive comment! Anything constructive is welcome! Always! In other words, any remark stemming from the community will be seriously discussed for v0.2.
Thanks!
This is fantastic. Bookmarking now!
My only thoughts right now for a suggestion is that the header links be separated by a solid line, otherwise it can be a bit hard to see where one link ends and another begins. I've mocked up what I'm thinking of below
I also felt the big images felt a bit messy, just thought I was getting old ;)
Hi igster, excuse me, that I disturb you again, but is white screen at Steemgar.
Then I'm getting old too.
We are all getting old. Unfortunately, no one can reverse the arrow of time ;)
But perhaps aging can be stopped or reversed, it's likely to happen at some point of time as our technology advances but perhaps it's too late for us. What a thought that is!
I am not sure this should happen, to be honest. I still see it better to leave room for the next generation. This is the only way for new brains to emerge, IMO. I know, this is a bit a drastic opinion, but it is mine ^^
"I still see it better to leave room for the next generation"
Luckily we have the whole universe to expand to, lot's of room for old and new. And we can't really stop that technology once it comes available, people will want to continue living. If there's demand, there's a supply, eventually.
Modern medicine has already greatly improved our life expectancy and it will continue to do so.
I do hope we can settle other planets by that point though or it will get rather crowded! Or have solved the issues that would follow with huge population boost.
High food production, free 3d printed houses, renewable energy used everywhere, high levels of automation.
That would ensure more people wouldn't result in more horrific "rat race" against everyone else after more limited resources.
Maybe...but question is when :)
If only one could actually click to enlarge on steemit... but yeah I see what you mean. Will add to the list, thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion! it is definitely added to the list :)
Thanks for the input T.
I'm not happy with the messy "second header" also and I'd love to have geology, history and meteorology at "science" in the header. I'd also love to have medicine sitting on its own point beneath psychology.
Which category is used for astrophotography at the moment?
The links in the footer ("About us", "FAQ") seem not to work.
For the "messy" thing, we are definitely on it and we added the link stuff to the bug list. But this will take time (days probably).
For the set of subcategories that are visible, we had of course to make a choice both for the selection and to organize it. It is here impossible to satisfy everyone, and the choice were mostly driven by the trends of the moment. I am nothing your suggestion and we will discuss it. THanks for the comment (if no one complains, we can't guess :D ).
Hi! I have already commented on how much I like this update, but let me post some remarks and questions here real quick.
The Featured posts on the home page don't seem to load? It could be my bad internet connection, but this is the only thing that does not work for me.
In the Comments tab on a profile page it only shows 'User' Commented on 'link'. I don't know if this is still planned to change, but isn't it more useful to actually display the comment?
And thirdly, when trying to view the page of a certain tag, the link gets changed to steemstem.io/#!//'tag' but nothing loads, and when I try to go to that link it is just a blank page.
This could all be still things in development, but I thought I'd let you know 😊
Oh and the steem-ua reputation system could be nice to display but since you are working on your own SteemStem reputation system waiting to use that one might be more logical.
Overall I really like how its looks and feels. Great work everyone!
Thanks for the comments and suggestions!
Yep, we will implement our own solution, tailored to our community specifically.
Thanks for the report. We have added all the items to our list (that is now super huge thanks to a great community feedback).
Concerning the reputation system, I am totally opposed to any curation mechanism based on the UA (which is what steem-UA is). This is just ill-defined.
This being said, for what concerns the UA itself, this metric is not appropriate for SteemSTEM. It measures the connection to the witnesses, and we don't want that. We want instead a metric that measure the implication in the SteemSTEM community. I am planning to post something new on this within the next 10 days (I first need to give a feedback to @flugschwein so that he could push his changes... @flugschwein please give me a few extra days ;) ). In short, please stay tuned ^^
No problem, I am glad I might be able to help.
That seems true indeed, but currently a reputation system measuring the 'social network' of users is still better than the default Steem reputation in my opinion. Of course one measuring involvement in SteemSTEM community would be even better in this case so we'll wait for that. I'm really looking forward to the announcement!
I also received some very nice inputs from @cryptoctopus that I would like to implement. Once again, time is the killer ;)
Hi, this is fantastic. The thing I'm not sure I like is the header with the promoted posts, it can be difficult to read. Looks to me the text should not be over the background image like that. Also, and this is not important at all haha, but could we normalize title capitalization somehow? Maybe the website could parse titles and capitalize them under one set scheme automatically?
I will ensure these suggestions get incorporated into our list. Importantly, you only dislike the asthetics of the promoted section, or you also dislike the concept of it?
Oh no, having those at the top seems like a good idea, it's just too noisy to read. I have seen others echo that thoughts here too.
Well the asthetics are subject to change based on community feedback, like what you provided above. :)
Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion. Many users has indeed reported the same thing and we are definitely on it!
Wonderful, the page is really good, excellent all the innovative advances that are being made from the steemstem, a it´s pleasure to belong to you and the subcommunity stem-espanol. Let's keep moving forward and growing. Happy to meet you and share with you. Regards
Thanks for the feedback and strong contribution to the stem-espanol community. This is really appreciated. You can count on us to move forward at a faster and faster pace!
Great development!
I'm sure many have their own ideas about the main topic headings at the top of the site, but looking at More gave me an idea.
There is a degree at Oxford called Human Sciences - this would include Psychology, Sociology, Medicine, History (of Science), Biology etc. Perhaps Biology can be kept in its place, but the others could all be under Human Sciences, or just Humans.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a bunch! I have added this to our suggestion list.
i love the steemstem.io interface. It loads faster than the steemit.com at my end here.
i made some observations which i think others might have too(in case i repeat what others have written) but i can't go through all the comments.
Thanks for reporting those bugs. Even if your list starts t be pretty big, you managed to find 2 new ones. We will try to address (and fix) them as soon as possible!