Great work! With these different use cases I'm wondering if eventually it will be confusing as to what is going on when a person looks at the new posts section on a site like Steemit where there are tons and tons of posts coming in from sites like this or from Zappl.
Also is there anyway currently to not have a forum post show up on a person's regular blog feed? Or is the ability to hide a post not available in general on the STEEM blockchain?
It's totally possible to do that, but would require Steemit Inc to change steemit.com in order to do that.
All of the posts onto the Steem blockchain (for the most part) have an
apptag that indicate what they are and where they originated.Ok, that makes sense. So Steemit.com, Busy.org, or Chainbb could even eventually have settings to either control what the user sees or let them decide what data they want to display depending on where it came from.
Thank you for the reply!
Also do you feel that the STEEM blockchain can handle the needs of most applications or do you feel it will be more likely that most applications will be database driven but connect to STEEM to pull information and do transactions?
For scaling purposes, I think applications will need to cache the information to an external source (mirroring the blockchain) and then pull from that. The APIs from the blockchain can't handle the same amount of load as time-tested web tech :)
Thanks for your honest reply. I saw there was SteemSQL out there that was mirroring the blocks and was a 10 second delay behind the blockchain.
I have been exploring the idea of creating a Fiverr clone but I'm not sure if reinventing the wheel is the right way to go about it. There is a lot of existing code out there and I was thinking it might be more plausible to run off that but pull info from the blockchain for reputation and implement a system for the user to pay possibly using Steem connect V2 but I can't find much info on what it is capable of. I see it is performing some functions using the Active key. But I don't see any payment related solutions with it yet.
I'm not a cryptography expert and it isn't an easy thing to tackle.
Yeah it'd be a decent sized project to pull something off like that. The handling of funds is a bit behind in terms of development compared to some of the social features (for most 3rd party/open source apps currently).
Yeah, hopefully it can catch up. I would like to see Steemit Inc to pay consulting fees or give you grants to work on these type of projects.
Would be nice! They've got a mountain of cash, would be nice to see that used to help 3rd party development that's happening.