It's official, Project Blank is live. We launched on Monday and honestly, it's been one of the longest weeks so far, ever.
There is much, much work to be done. We've been rolling out daily updates since the new UI went live. A mixture of bug fixes and new features.
Our focus throughout May will be adding missing features from the old UI onto the new UI (obviously with a new and improved flavor on them) and primarily on Bug Patching.
We were in Alpha for so long. 84 years, it felt like.
It was time to move to Beta. Beta is still Beta. Bugs are going to be present. Things are not going to be 100% smooth.
We made the final decision to say "f*ck it, we'll do it live". We know that the UI/UX is far from perfect, but That is OKAY.
We will gladly sacrifice the Month of May as our month to go live and squash bugs. This is an important time for LeoFinance. Our goal is to break things quickly and fix them even faster.
IF you are seeing bugs on the UI, please report them. That's how they get fixed. I've seen so many people complain in various places (especially discord) about things not working.
- Open a Bug Ticket
- OR post a Thread with #feedback hashtag in it
Regardless of which of those 2 options you do, the more info you provide, the better. If you provide us with ample information, you'll be amazed at how quickly we can squash bugs.
What doesn't really work well is just complaining in Discord general chat. We have a team and we have a process for collecting bugs, triaging and then fixing them in a prioritized and organized manner.
Please report and we will fix. I have spoken.
Dev Updates
We've been releasing bug patches on a daily basis. Working around the clock since Monday. It's been 3 days but it's felt like 3 weeks.
Today, we released a major bug patch which fixed some big issues in core places:
- Fixed a bug on the publishing UI (should crash less)
- Added Native Ad code
- Fixes for notifications page (duplicate notifications)
- Fixed broken follow button on user's
Publishing UI
We've been polishing the Publishing UI. Evidently, people were using the old UI and not the Alpha UI for the past 2 months. This didn't give us the feedback we needed to have a fully polished experience.
Now you see one of the major goals of moving out of Alpha and into Live Beta. This forces the community to discover all of the edge cases that our Alpha testing missed.
One big bug we found was if you used a $ in front of any ticker symbol. This caused the whole page to crash in your browser.
The reason for this was because we added Coingecko support to Threads but NOT to posts. Now you can call things like $LEO in your post and get them to work properly.
We've found a few other random edge cases and formatting issues. Most have been resolved and some are still being worked on. You should notice a much better experience overall.
Next up is fixing some stuff with the Schedule Publishing interface. It's not working as intended and we'll have an update for that shortly.
Added Native Ad Code
Okay this is pretty freaking cool.. It took a lot more work than you would anticipate but we've managed to get native ads working. You may notice that every 10 or so Threads, you see an ad.
The Ad looks like a regular Thread. It even shows "comments" beneath it.
The idea here is that we pulled inspiration from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. When they show ads, they look in-line with regular content.
This greatly improves views and engagement with ads. Users are far more likely to actually read an ad (and potentially click it) when it doesn't disrupt their scrolling experience.
We have a few more ideas to polish this feature and optimize placement to get it into more places like:
- Reply windows
- Blogs
- Comment sections
- Profile pages
We want ads to be a non-intrusive experience. We also believe - after talking with our ad partners about our traffic - that we are only getting 1/10th of the ad efficiency that is possible. If we can better optimize placement, we could 10x our ad revenue with the current Userbase on LeoFinance.
As you all know, Ad Revenue -> LEO smart contract -> LEO POWER APY.
Gonna be yuge.
Notifications Page & Follows
We deployed some updates to the notifications page. This is one of my favorite features on the UI as it allows you to quickly reply and manage all of the inbound on your Threads.
There were sometimes duplicate replies shown and a few other bugs related to infinite scrolling. We deployed a bug patch.
Next Up
Like I said, this is largely a bug patching month. We also know that long-form needs a big update in terms of features on the UI. Yes, long-form is still there (hit the "Explore" button) but it definitely needs some work.
We're working on that and we also have a list of about 25 bugs that are currently being worked on.
If you guys keep providing feedback and bug reports with ample detail, we can keep squashing bugs. Keep that rolling in and come June, the UI will be polished AF and ready to onboard the masses.
About LeoFinance
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For a beta, you did a good job guys. Waiting for the proper launch.
This is a great improvement .
Let's keep going forward and onward.
Every little step in that direction is a big win. Kudos to the dev team. The future is getting closer than ever.
This is nice, let's keep going.
Otimo trabalho conseguido pelos desenvolvedores. Estas atualizações vão certamente levar a um resultado magnífico
Its coming along nicely, keep fixing the bugs and it will be ok.
Super excited! Great job!
The effort put in on this project is evident. Great job and well done for this good work guys. The native ads included looks good as well. More engagement in hive through threads, let's get it going 👍
The effort put in on this project is evident. Great job and well done for this good work guys. The native ads included looks good as well. More engagement in hive through threads, let's get it going 👍
84 years 😂 an excellent reference. All the recommendations seem to me to be the best form of correction with feedback, in fact several threads I have put together have not been able to go live, but we always start small and end up with a treasure. Come on friends, if you can get the sky!!! 🦁
onward and upward frens
This is the way. May the 4 be with the team working in so many things.
Wen moon?
Moon soon.
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Wow I love love the native ads included, so cool and it definitely shows a lot of effort put in.
The team are amazing, these updates are putting smiles on faces 😊
Well done to you all... We keep moving forward, threads is the present and future of engagement on Hive 🚀
You are doing a great job. Thanks for the report.
big thanks for releasing the updates asap
i like the way the ads fall into the timeline and look native, im curious to know if there had been any talks of getting some leo from interacting with the ads or just for having them on in general?
good luck on knocking out those 25 bugs for the long post content, lots of ppl are ready to hop back on it.
Well done team leo
We can understand that The changing the comple UI is not an easy task.
Taking the feedback and arresting those issue will make the experience more user friendly.
Cool stuff and well done. I know what it's like to work on big software projects, but mine are not for public eyes.
It made me LOL to see my thread in the screenshot :D
Honestly you guys are doing great work, not an easy one at all, we are have our parts to play to make this project blank the best ever, let's always give feedback. Thank you 👍.
What a crazy design interface, good job done.
Funny enough is that i don't use this platform cause i don't understand sh*t. Am looking forward to the day i will make research about it and get to join them.
Wen moon, Leofinance? 💪💪💪
Great updates and amazing to see the new UI taking better shape through iterative releases. This is the way!
A lot to work no. The dev team are working tirelessly. Let's squash it hard and fast
We're on the way. Although I'm a little late to the party, it's better late than never! This is going to be huge, I'm excited to see the outcome.
This is really amazing and kudos to all the entire leo team for this amazing project.
We move always
Wow, Leo is going to have a Mobile App supporting IOS, that is a great feature indeed. I would be glad to wait for that. Bugs are always bound to happen in every new development the rate of correcting them on Leo is the best ever, this shows how the team is really putting up a great effort for this project. Kudus to all develpers and team members.
that is a very cool thing what you did with the native ads to give users a smooth scrolling experiences. I admit that I definitely would’ve been one of the users a cut in appearance between ads and content itself would’ve bothered and I definitely wouldn’t pay attention to the ad in this case because my eyes are rolling to the next content-looking thing:) Good thinking, guys.
Let's go! To the moon Lions!
Congratulations to the All-New LeoFinance! I enjoyed the launch video very much. Awesome guys. Barb
this is just so incredible, i love the energy and flows put into making this a possibility, please keep up the great works, its awesome
Quite excited about the constant improvement around the Leo Community hoping more we unfold as time progresses.
Best of luck with the new launch guys. Fair play
To be honest, LeoFinance is the standard among communities. Site, UI, Community, Constant Communication, Ad revenue, prizes!
I’m glad we’re doing this. Thank you for the report 😊
I didn't see ads at first because I use Brave. I turned off Shields and see them now. Great work.
As the saying goes "it's better done than perfect" and with time it gets better. It's been a lot of work I can only imagine how the team has been working... Congrats on the launch and the whole marketing campaign never seen before on hive and rarely seen on web3
It looks like a lot of fun with lots of web3.
You know what? I don't hate this!
No wait. I can do better than that.
This is the best thing since we ditched Justin!
Ya. That's good.
It's would be quite very cool to have a kind of smooth system . And along all of those features , it just going to be very unique to the core. Up Leofinance.
Congratulations $leo team. The beta version is awesome
Great job done by the developers. These upgrades will definitely lead to a magnificent result.
let's keep up the good work!
Congratulations on the campaign, I'm enjoying seeing the community engagement :D
It's exciting to hear that Project Blank is finally live! Congratulations to the LeoFinance team for all the hard work and dedication to making this project a reality. I appreciate your honesty about the challenges and bugs that come with launching a new UI, and I applaud your proactive approach to fixing them. It's great to see that you are actively addressing issues and adding new features to make the user experience even better.
I can only imagine how much time and efforts go into this behind the scenes, and I say kudos to you all!
It's exciting to hear that Project Blank is finally live! Congratulations to the LeoFinance team for all the hard work and dedication to making this project a reality. I appreciate your honesty about the challenges and bugs that come with launching a new UI, and I applaud your proactive approach to fixing them. It's great to see that you are actively addressing issues and adding new features to make the user experience even better.
I can only imagine how much time and efforts go into this behind the scenes, and I say kudos to you all!
It's exciting to hear that Project Blank is finally live! Congratulations to the LeoFinance team for all the hard work and dedication to making this project a reality. I appreciate your honesty about the challenges and bugs that come with launching a new UI, and I applaud your proactive approach to fixing them. It's great to see that you are actively addressing issues and adding new features to make the user experience even better.
I can only imagine how much time and efforts go into this behind the scenes, and I say kudos to you all!
It's exciting to hear that Project Blank is finally live! Congratulations to the LeoFinance team for all the hard work and dedication to making this project a reality.
I can only imagine how much work goes on behind the scenes! Kudos to y'all!