When was the last time you felt like Steemit is missing notifications about new replies or upvotes and downvotes on your posts. Well now you can have it. With Steemification (yea, creative with the name right?)!
So I spent the day to create a browser extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that essentially gives you pings when someone is interacting with the posts you have created. The mechanics of it are quite simple: you just enter the username of your account or of an account that you want to watch and there will be a browser notification as soon as something new is happening.
There is an option to choose custom layout notifications or go with the default browser notification style. When clicking on the notification you get redirected to the post and can interact or reply instantly and thus improving the whole flow of how to use steemit a lot more.
I submitted the extension to the Chrome Webstore and it is currently pending review and I will submite it now to the Firefox extension store. Once the links are live I will post it here. I dont know how long the review process takes but for everyone who want's to have the extension I can also send files. I'am not sure if I can support Safari but I will look into it later today.
While developing it and having it run for two hours myself I saw the following options for improvement:
- notifications about new posts from people who you follow
- an optional alternative layout in the facebook notification style
- options to select which kind of notifications you would want to show (upvotes, downvotes, replies,....)
- a feature that you suggest?
I hope this extension can be useful to a lot of people here on #Steemit. Even if not it is very useful to myself as it is finally possible to keep up with everything happening on the platform easily. Essentially I hope that this extension can give a guideline to the admins how notifications on the page could look like and that they implement them into the project itself at some point.
Update:
hey everyone, thanks for the overwhelming support. i sent out the extension to a few people here and on telegram and the feedback so far is great. unfortunately the chrome webstore store rejected the first submission due to the image guidelines not fulfiled with the reason "other" - very helpful - but i resubmitted it already.. after talking to a few people on our steem telegram group i also decided to polish the sourcecode more and release it on github. the extension is not asking for any passwords or keys but still people should have the means to verify this themself. please stay tuned i will update this post as soon as the extension goes live. if there are further feature requests just drop me a comment here please! steem on!
This is the best thing I've seen all week!
thanks for the flowers - that is quite a compliment after all those posts from girls or photoshop pictures introducing themself!
man.. some of the gifs in the comment section on this site are just hilarious
This is exactly what I am looking for! beautiful work! @fleuri
@jesta someone beats you to it!
@fleuri okay let us see the best results from you, cheers
Ok black
I hope you remember me 🙊🙉🙈
Good job. I made a relative proposal yesterday, you may have seen it (?) or not: https://steemit.com/steem/@alexgr/steem-interface-proposal-follow-response-upvote-notifications
Having said that, I'm somewhat ideologically opposed to extensions for use on a website that deals with money for obvious security concerns but I don't mind its use as a proof-of-concept inspiration to get to our target of native integration faster.
a cookie from putin? i feel honored :)
haha thank you! i was missing this feature from day one and it is such an obvious thing to have natively in the website. i hope @ned and @dan can take my extension as an inspiration to implement notifications with one of the next website iterations
I really hope so! Make sure you open an issue on the git.
Not one Medal but 10!
Also do check out this Post regarding Rules of Steemit and It's proper Usage: https://steemit.com/steemit/@minion/youtube-vs-steemit-enemies-or-siblings
Nice add-on.
thank you
Nice ツ
Good, thank you !!!
Sounds cool, but based on the amount of SteemPower you own, my money is on this being a password exploit. Thats just me. I trust no one.
Sure
Good to know
But if you have the time, check you logged on, activities you can see from there.
If you upvote someone & they don't thank you and upvote you
I suggest don't follow them.
Is a waste of your votes
I have been following others
That is how they gaining their support
Anyway Good Job Poster
👍👍👍👍👍👍
@fleuri Hey this is awesome! I would love to help you test. I use chrome and I know how to create and run custom extensions. I also know how to port between firefox and chome apis.
Upvoted!
you deserve all my steem power lol. wish I could place a bet on an upvote and increase the stake
I hope a good app will follow ! My computer is still broke and it's a nightmare browsing in the phone . I cannot even find my recommendations and who I follow . Anyways nice job !!!
you are going to get big quick!
Nice thinking!!!
is there any way we can get you to post this to github.com ? or to dropbox and share a link here?
MANY HERE DON'T TRUST PRE-BUILT SOFTWARE...
Thanks!
It's these types of contributions that will help Steemit mature to its true potential.
THANK YOU
So interesting
Great work! I am also providing telegram-based notification bot
https://steemit.com/steemit/@clayop/noteefi-stay-tuned-with-steemit-using-telegram
hey! i was just trying it out actually. you did a great job there, i just upvoted your post :) i am a very early adopter of telegram and it is great to see that so many people are using it also on the steemit platform. we also have a steemit group for those who don't know: https://steemit.com/steemit/@fleuri/alternative-for-steemitchat-com-and-slack-telegram-join-now
i seriously don't know why people are still using whatsapp for example... :')
I'd be interested in testing this too. I was noticing that I don't currently get notifications for activity on my content. I don't want to post my email address here, but feel free to PM me (though I haven't yet figured out how that works), or you can find me on BitcoinTalk (I'm wiser there as well).
congrats.
oh good finally
Amazing would make life so much easier
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Good, thank you
Nice
Just brilliant! keep Steeming Steemers #steemit
thaks for the great insight
awesome \o/ i can't wait to install it, notifications are exactly what steemit is lacking! you are going to be rich soon :D
This sounds very useful, upvoted, thank you.
I'm not able to test myself, but am looking forward to further updates.
what system are you using? i was thinking that the next thing could be a proper mobile app that allows posting and interacting with the platform properly. and notifications could come in as push notifications. what do you think?
I would install in a heartbeat.
finally!! i appreciate all the other developments here but nothing hurts more than not having proper notifications
Great Idea! Looking forward to trying it out :)
if you need help with the notification design let me know, iam a designer and did a few things here on steemit and would love to help
thank you for the offer. i will get back to you about it once there is feedback in regards of the current design and maybe additional feature requests. but polishing it a bit definitely can't hurt!
Thanks for creating this. Quick question, have you made the code available for users to review? This would help from a security point of view, i definitely wouldn't install this blindly.
That's quite nifty and would save a lot of time. I wouldn't mind testing the extension out. :)
What a great idea! what else do you have down the pipe?
You got my vote x10 !
Cheers mate!
Awesome job, this is definitely useful and needed. Check my ideas for improving the main page user interface.
https://steemit.com/ui/@moonjelly/remaking-steemit-s-front-page-a-very-quick-ui-mockup
Thankyou steemit.
I would really love to see the source and build instructions.
meep
hi, are you able to track how much one upvote was worth? please check
https://steemit.com/steemit/@knozaki2015/my-upvote-was-worth-5-06-usd-25300-or-how-to-earn-the-maximum-curation-reward
oh hell no,lol how did i miss this post..it was sneaky and slipped through my fish net,lol....Hey this is hellish, i use slack with some steemwatchy pingys , but sometimes it takes a little to much of my attention away , so something a little less time consuming would be awesome...great addition to the steem weaponry for sure...I beta test alot for different programs/apps so if you need another at the helm, count me in for a battle run!!..chrome is the main but i use all browsers .:)
Hell yea I need this for sure! Thanks, @christoph3 @surfinmurphman @christoryan
First of all, thank you for this great extension. Just what I've been looking for! Hopefully it works smoothly as I'm having some troubles with steemstats for example. If you would be to implement notifications about new posts AND new votes from people who you follow, I'd probably have no need for Steemstats anymore! Keep up the good work.
Please allow me to test the extension please, anything goes for me, firefox, chrome tampermonkey,greasemonkey! :P
email: ohmynose@gmx.com
If it is still possible,i would also like to get this extension,
im ready to test it.
looks great :)