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This post is intended to cover the server costs for SteemWorld.org and to enable me to continue my development in the future.
In case you missed the first part:
SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #1
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Dieser Post ist dafür gedacht die Serverkosten für SteemWorld.org zu decken und mir in Zukunft weitere Entwicklungen zu ermöglichen.
Falls du den ersten Teil verpasst haben solltest:
SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #1
Don't walk down non-existing stairs!
I'm a bit late with my 'weekly' post because I broke my left foot after drinking a bit too much and jumping into nothingness. Lesson learned, alcohol sucks. Resetting mind to previous state in progress...
As the markets do slowly come back to their real value and STEEM trades still below 1 USD, priorities regarding my development on SteemWorld have changed a bit. I'm glad that I didn't order any new servers as I had planned a few weeks ago because I would not be able to pay the bills without powering down much of my SP. Nevertheless I needed to power down again and my SP did not grow for weeks now. I should definitely post more...
I'm thinking about how to increase my earnings and maybe I should implement an own post editor on SteemWorld. I could add my account (or @steemworld.org) as beneficiary and take 5% or so from the authors using SteemWorld. Anyway, working on the client side is the only thing I currently can do because most planned features require at least one new server. What do you think?
Updates / New features
Amounts for incoming votes
The 'Account Operations' section now shows the $ amounts for incoming votes:
STEEM/SBD Conversion
We now have the STEEM conversion feature available in the 'Balances' tab. As stated in the dialog, it should only be used when SBD (median price) is trading below 1 USD.
Notification for invalid mentions
We now get informed when we added a link to a non-existing Steem account in our posts:
Sortable tables for delegations
After changing the default sort order to 'delegator, ascending', a few users contacted me because they liked the previous order by 'delegation time, descending' more. Now we can change it by clicking on the desired column header. A second click toggles the sort direction between ascending and descending:
Invalid hotlinks blocked
Some users do use a direct link (hotlink) to images on Pixabay (which is not allowed by their terms of use). To avoid making such requests I now show an own 'invalid hotlink' image. You should always download the desired images and upload them to a public image hoster (like Steemit's own steemitimages.com).
CSI experiments
I activated the CSI again and am going to watch the resulting values for a few weeks, before I will implement the calculation on the server side. It is not meant to be a rating for voting behaviour and I see it more as a freely interpretable voting score. The number will be higher for users who spread their votes to many other accounts. I won't publish any recommended values and leave the judgement to the people instead.
The weight of the given votes is also being considered. One self-vote with 100% + five 10% votes for other authors lead to a self-vote rate of 50%. The formula for calculation is the same for every account and it will be published in future.
Animation for account tooltips
The spinning arc is kind of a progress indicator and shows us when the account info will be loaded. New users, who didn't read my recent posts, can now see that there is something happening when they move the mouse over an account's name and therefore the function becomes a bit more self-explanatory:
Node details
I thought it would be a good idea to show which witnesses support the network by offering a (stable) public full node, therefore I added their account name here:
Isn't it funny...
Sometimes I get a nice comment like
Great work, man! You got my 100% upvote!
and I'm thinking
Yeah dude, now I'm finally gonna become rich :)
My eyes get bigger and I take a look at the amount of the enormous vote that must have hit me. Hmm, I can't see it yet, shows 0.00, maybe that monstrous amount caused a bug in my tool...
Reality hits me when I change the number of visible decimal places to '4' in the Settings tab. Wow, I can see it now and I was enriched by an incredible amount of $0.0001 ...^^ Steem's vote dust threshold will surely eat your gift before it can ever reach me, but... Thank you :)
Of course, me and many other Steemians have also been at that point in the early days and know exactly how it feels when the own vote does not yet leave a reasonable $ amount. Better times will come when we don't give up, participate in communities that share the own vision, write well-thought comments and trust the magic of our own dreams.
I assure you, losing 75% of the own vote's value because of STEEM making a deep dive reminds many of us today to how bad that feels ;)
Links
EN | What is SteemWorld?
-> Welcome to SteemWorld.org!
DE | Was ist SteemWorld?
-> Willkommen auf SteemWorld.org!
Thank you for supporting my work!
Positive thoughts create a positive world. It all begins with connecting our thoughts with emotions. We are the creators of our world.
Much Love,
Thank you for posting @steemchiller.
Appreciate all the bells and whistles at Steemworld......a very useful tool for Steemians.
Do take care of yourself......so sorry to hear you have broken your foot.
All the best to you and this lovely project.
Cheers!
Thank you!
Steemworld greatly enhances my experience on the SteemIt platform, I would be lost without it.
Hope your foot heals quickly!
Have a great week!
Steem on,
Mike
This
Amounts for incoming votesis realy awesome! Will it also appear in the outgoing votes?Also tried delegating though SW and works really nice :) Way easier than what I was using before. Well done! And a big thank you!
I'm not sure because it would overload the list a bit. Maybe I will add an option in settings for that ;)
Understood :)
Would be cool if its possible. Thanks and get well soon! :)
https://steemit.com/steemworld/@steemchiller/re-tobixen-re-steemchiller-re-ewkaw-re-steemchiller-steemworld-weekly-support-7-20180904t222548665z
Hi Steemchiller,
I am to late to upvote this post, but not this comment.
Thanks for a great tool!
I would also like to see the $-amounts on my outgoing votes
Done. Can now be activated in Settings -> View:
Wow... you da man! :D
This is brilliant! Thank you!
P.S. Since @qurator staff relies on your site a lot, we will be sending some love to your posts too. You fully deserve it!
Hi Steemchiller,
I am to late to upvote this post, but not this comment.
Thanks for a great tool!
Thanks for a great tool! Following you. :)
Hallo @steemchiller,
hoffe mein 0,09 $ Upvote auf deinen Beitrag hat den Bug nicht verursacht, aber ich hab gerade einen gefunden.
Tritt in Firefox (61.0.2) auf. In Chrome passt alles.
Lg @nissla
Vielen Dank für die Info! Ich habe gestern etwas geändert, das vermutlich der Auslöser dafür ist. Nutze selbst Firefox 61.0.1 auf Linux und in der Version funktioniert noch alles. Werde ich mir nachher mal anschauen. Nutzt du Windows?
Gerne :)
Jopp, Windows 10
Das gleiche wollte ich auch gerade schicken.
Feuerfuchs Käfer kann ich bestätigen.
Windows 8.1 mit aktueller Feuerfuchs Ausgabe.
In Chrome ist alles wie gehabt.
Ich finde aber, diese Optik hat durchaus was. :-)
Könnte man direkt was draus machen..... ;-)
I am also seeing this when using Firefox 61.0.2 on Windows 10. I am happy to assist in your testing/debugging.
Thanks man! Is it still there when you refresh the page?
yes, it is still there
I've now tested it on Windows 10 with Firefox 61.0.2 and it works fine for me. May be related to graphic drivers and the shadow functions I added yesterday. Can you take a look into the developer console (F12) and tell me if there is any error text being shown? Thanks!
I just got home and tested it and it works fines now. Did you make any changes after I notified you today or was it only require a reboot of my PC on my end? Anyhow, thanks for your attention to this minor annoyance. Keep up the awesome work, and take care of that foot.
Hi, bei mir sieht es auch so verändert aus. Dachte schon, ich hätte mir einen Virus eingefangen :-/
Also, ich kann's nicht für Firefox 61.0.2 auf OS X 10.10.5 bestätigen, bei mir tritt das nicht auf.
@steemchiller appreciate all the hard work hope your foot gets better soon thanks so much!
Very nice @steemchiller, tanks!
Buildteam is @thecryptodrive, not Mark. All these guys starting with "the" are confusing. (I'm not sure how the nodes should be credited, since @reggaemuffin is also involved. Maybe they'll come along and tell you.)
Themarkymark was our rpc node admin but he is planning on transitioning. There will be changes to buildteam rpc nodes for sure.
In my opinion marky deserves every vote so I would leave him in. TCD and I provide funds, marky does the management. But yeah, soon to change™
Huh, learn something new every day I guess. I had no idea he was connected to your organization. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks for your work! Great Job!!!
💯 % Upvote 👍
Thanks for all the awesome sauce!!!
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Thank you for that information. I was wondering if there was an easy way to see the user Icon without having to go into inspect element or view source. I appreciate that bit of information.
Hey @steemchiller, I'm been out of steemit this past week, just turned it on and boom! here you are :) So sorry about your foot! Too much alcohol can really mess you up for sure ... there's a thing called moderation you know haha
I know you said, "I should really post more", and I'm sure I'm not the only one that would love to see "Non-steemworld" posts from you. Not sure if you like to reveal too much of who you are, where you live, steemchiller's cool life etc, but I think you'd get a lot of support on those for sure!
You were on fire when you made these changes!! I love being able to see the amounts for incoming votes, and that you sorted out the invalid mentions part too :)
And I had no idea about this:
You could do a post on that alone and make piles! There are a lot of new (and not so new like me) peeps here who could learn from you, event though it probably seems like old news to you ;)
Thank you again for the updates, this post, and just for being you ... broken foot and all :)
sorry to hear you broke your foot, but what I can tell you is that I have you a full vote and resteem, wish it was worth more. Some really awesome updates in there this week. Love your work. Keep it up
Thank you for an excellent service. @SteemChiller
Resteemed, upvoted & followed.
The tool is getting better & better! Just great... it has become my only tool when checking for info and following my accounts.
BTW: with the last update I noticed a little bug (at least on my side) when using Firefox. The red/green square sprite used to show your voting power is in the front, covering the actual gauge... Only in firefox, chrome and, unbelievable, IE are fine.
Cheers & keep up the great work!
Thanks for the info! Yes, some people on Firefox seem to experience this issue. I'm also using Firefox (61.0.1) and it works fine for me. I will take a look into it. Do you use Windows?
IE is fine... That's really a surprise :)
Thought I would pick a comment somewhere in your post and upvote it to increase our small part in helping you @steemchiller.
Since the topic here is focused a bit on browsers, I have used the Brave browser in Windows 10 (64-bit) for months now without any issue. I like using an open source browser like this one and it can be used with BAT (another crypto asset, if you're not familiar with it) to reward the author of websites, like say ohhh ... I dunno ... thinking, thinking ...
SteemWorld! 😊
P.S. Following up on our recent exchange, pleased to report that the increased upvote here is due to a successful use of your little notepad delegation tool, now that I know its purpose! 👍
yep, windows 10 with firefox 61.0.2 (64-bits)...
And yes... IE is a BIG surprise... must even be a first for me :-)
Thanks for the new improvements.
I've been finding the decimal places and display of vote value on the main screen really useful.
It would be good to have a popup regarding what CSI means (I assumed it wasn't referring to the TV show but had no idea until I did some Steemit searches).
Hey @steemchiller, sorry to hear about your foot.
I can't fix that or make the Steem price go back up above $4 but I can help you recover some of the losses that you and all other Steemians have suffered from the market drops.
Join the Crypto Industry Class Action against Facebook & Google at https://www.jpbliberty.com/class-member-signup
More details in these posts: https://steemit.com/dlive/@apshamilton/4cadc47f-ae11-11e8-91f1-0242ac110003
https://steemit.com/jpbliberty/@apshamilton/eligibility-for-crypto-class-action-and-airdrop-extended-to-all-crypto-owners-and-mt-gox-creditors
I especially appreciate the convert to STEEM function for SBD. Since that tool is no longer available on the Steemit UI, yours is the simplest!
... you got my 100% upvote, ;) (~$0.02)
hey, @steemchiller.
Whatever you decide to do that will help keep steemworld going is fine with me, including the 5% beneficiary through your own post editor. I didn't see many people responding to that part in the comments I read or ran searches for so I'm not sure how many people caught it.
Until someone else puts in the time, the effort, cares as much, and shows the talent that you have for providing a large amount of information in a relatively small space that is user friendly and user pertinent, I really don't want to see steemworld go away. :)
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This service has become the hottest service on steem platform. Your work is remarkable my friend. Kudos to you for your outstanding work.
I appreciate your work @steemchiller. I've set an auto-upvote for your posts at 100% immediately after posting for some time now. I wish I could help more.
I have a question. For operations that need a higher ranked private key (like Convert SBD, since it's new here), how do you handle them, security-wise? Are they stored anywhere, do they leave the browser?
Thanks for your support!
No private key will ever leave the browser or be stored permanently. All transactions are being signed locally within the JavaScript of the page. Once you enter a key it will temporarily be held available on the page (in the DOM) but never be stored anywhere else. Only the signed transaction will be sent to the connected node, so no keys are transferred at any time.
I've planned to add SteemConnect or a more secure (own) solution in future. As SteemConnect stores the private keys on the developers servers, I'm still not really convinced that that is the right way to do it. I think stored keys always should be encrypted and in my own solution I would do exactly that in conjunction with a master password.
Nice job on Steemworld @steemchiller. Got a prompt to come here and give a vote of support when I was at Steemworld just a few minutes ago. And I will absolutely gladly do that.
Matter of fact I will go one step farther and put you on my Manuel Trail and make sure I support you and your work with Steemworld.
Great stuff :)
Great work, man! You got my 100% upvote! xD
Yeah dude, I can't see any amount yet, but... Thanks :)
NEW Comment : on 12/9/2018
Hi my best friend - with great respect , your work is still one of the best here in steemit, but it is missing something small, and i tried to configure it till I found it ... can you guess what is it ?
ok ok look to my picture here one picture is better than 1000 words
i hope you got it !!
you need to add ( PLEASE ) the mark of 1005 SP rewards beside the title of the post....
i have changed my setting to get only 100% sp as the steem price is fucked up by btc low price, and as steemit stopped sbd so it is better to go for market to get steem from sbd but the rewards if splitted then if the value less than 0.024 then it will be turned into dust but by 100% sp yea it will not ( i hope ) so when i have changed the settings in my steemits account i could not inspect which posts in my control panel ( your website )
so please can you add it ???
please
please
please
thank yuo
samer
love the new feature that shows if you put a bad user name in a post! I just got a notification on steem world so I was able to edit my post to fix it! you should post a daily support blog and then perhaps you could make 7 times as much? I would click on it every time I logged into steemworld, I try to do so whenever I see a new weekly support post.
Thanks for the update @steemchiller! Appreciate all the extra bits and pieces you keep adding... hope these (not quite) weekly posts are helping you out! They are probably a good thing, though, because it keeps your name fresh with people.
@steemchiller. You have my support and your job is very good! Regards
"I'm thinking about how to increase my earnings [...]
What do you think?"
I'm thinking since a while you should add to your text that you post 3 additional support comments which people can feel free to upvote and support your work.
You won't get 4 times your earnings from this but maybe double.
Also I would be fine with your weekly update and a daily support post with nothing but support.
And then the weekly update.
In my mind you are doing double work or we get double benefit
a) daily use
b) update with all improvements.
But you claim only reward for everything together with this one post a week.
Some hard work and passion for this site is truely inspired while the price is down, but i like the new features. Cheer up for steemworld.org.
autsch! saufen und fortbewegung, ja das kann böse enden.
aber ein kleiner unfall kann dich nicht aufhalten, solange das oberstübchen heil bleibt :-)
tolles update
gutes verheilen
LG :-)
Keep up the good work!
100% upvoted and resteemed as usual.
Wie früher schon angemerkt, geniales tool. Verstehe nicht wie man ohne es auskommt... und warum da jemand downvoten kann 😡
Post editor mit einem Anteil für Dich fände ich vollkommen in Ordnung!
Wundere mich, dass ich Dich nicht unter den Witnesses finde 🤔
Downvote ging zum Glück nicht an mich. Wollte nur zeigen, dass auch Beträge für Flags mit angezeigt werden ;)
Solange ich nichts davon habe, werde ich lieber die Finger davon lassen. Ich würde vermutlich recht schnell in die Top 50 kommen, aber das heißt noch nicht, dass man dabei etwas verdient. Die Anforderungen sind mit Steem gewachsen und dementsprechend benötigt man einen sehr kräftigen Server. 64 GB RAM müssen da schon sein und zusätzlich einen kleinen Server für die Seed-Node. Aktuell (mit Berücksichtigung der Zeit, die man da reinstecken muss) ein Minusgeschäft.
Ah, verstehe. Dachte, da ist mehr drin und hätte es Dir auf jeden Fall gegönnt!
Cool, just discovered your service via a @pfunk interview done by @dhavey. Like it very slick :-)
Thank you!
You may want to read Part 8 again as I have rewritten it and made it better :-)
Cg
I don't believe you hurt your foot becuse of the alcohol - more likely the alcohol plus you being lost in mental coding caused it (just like 'programs' crash, they do not fail)
Last year peeps were talking about SBD going to $50 - so, maybe there still is some hope it will get to $5 ? Worth hanging on, I hope.
Great update post @steemchiller! You will always have my 100% upvote, whenever you chose to post. Wish it was worth more, but as you say, STEEM along with most of the "crypto universe" has had its better days. Along with you, we hope for betters ones to come.
There are others probably much better suited than I to provide suggestions to you on increasing income. I'm sure you will have a lot of enthusiastic support, for whatever direction you chose to take.
All the best to you @steemchiller!
Ouch! Especially the ...
... part. Don't know precisely what that means, but will encourage you to stick with the ...
... part! Hopefully you are recovering quickly and fully!!
Hey @steemchiller, I simply love you!
The magnificent improvements you make every week to @steemworld, make it even more fantastic!
Greetings for a speedy recovery to your left foot!
I like the animation icon for account tooltip! 🙌
Monetization is the hardest part of it. Maybe some ideas can help and make something out of it.
There are already a lot of stats about STEEM blockchain. You have the other side - SteemWorld - stats about what are users interested in. Maybe some useful stats could be created and posted, to see what readers like.
Like fast access to your database via API or SQL.
Create some kind of user toplist with scores and post changes daily under other username, like, @steemworld, get free promotion of your service and daily votes. Message users who achieve some new level with link to your post, etc.
And of course, when you find out what works the best, then automate the process and enjoy the process.
I like the animation icon too, didn't realize hovering username will pop profile until the animation icon change.
Great work @steemchiller
I am continually amazed that you come up with data to show us I didn't even know I wanted to know about - until you woke that desire 😜
Ich hoffe das dein Fuss schnell heilt!
and yes, post more often so we can support you better!!!
Thank you so much for your hard work. Your service greatly enhances my experience. Upvoted and resteemed. Hope your foot heals fully and speedily.
I don't know what I would do without steemworld. Sometimes steem wallet just freezes and you wonder if transaction went thru, i go right to steemworld to check. Sometimes i leave it open because i like the notifications
Big thank you @steemchiller.
I am speechless. Steemworld is great and very useful. It makes me understanding my activities in Steemit easily.
I think all steemian should support this good project.
Steem on!
Don't walk down non-existing stairs! Lesson learned, alcohol sucks. Resetting to previous state in progress...
This had me cracking up. Hope your leg is healing well.
I love the new features that you have added. It really sux that you have to power down. The easiest and fastest way to make extra STEEM, is to post. I am sure thousands of people will add you to their STEEMAUTO; I know I would. Hang in there buddy. You provide a great free service to us and I hope good things will come to you sooner rather than later.
I will ponder your question about how you can earn extra income without new development or purchasing new servers.
The usage of the $ symbol is not always that clear ...
In times when the SBD value is not equal to the USD value, I always wonder if it's SBD or USD that is being counted? I also wonder if the value is what I'm getting, or the total amount going to curators, beneficiors, etc.
Thanks for your great support!
The $ symbol is neither SBD nor USD, it basically means 'STU' (Steem Token Unit). Here is a pretty good explanation by witness @dragosroua:
https://steemit.com/steem/@dragosroua/steem-supply-update-rewards-algorithm-rewrite-major-cleanup-version-bump
The $ amounts are always gross amounts. When in the process of creating a post/comment there have been any beneficiaries set, they will receive the defined percentage of the author rewards (currently only SP, from Hardfork 20 on also SBD and liquid STEEM).
Currently when the 'SBD Debt Ratio' is > 5%, the 'Liquid STEEM Ratio' is 100%, means we get 100% of the SBD reward as liquid STEEM. As long as the debt ratio is < 5, we receive SBD with the author rewards.
<= 2% debt = 100% SBD
3.5% debt = 50% SBD
5% debt = 0% SBD
But this will also change a bit with the coming HF20...
Thanks for your valuable work on behalf of the Steemit community, @steemchiller, and hope you get better soon!
PS: And thanks for the follow☺️!
Hate to hear about your foot. Been there, done that and know how it feels. Hope it gets well soon and thank you for all that you do.
Love the work you do, even if at times I don't quite understand all aspects of things, but that's just fine with me, the site really helps me out a lot on many fronts. Use it all the time. I hope you can keep up the great works and keep it running in the future. I know it's a LOT of work. We appreciate it.
Yeouch, sorry to hear about your foot too. Mass consumption of alcohol and injuries seem to go hand in hand...or I suppose in this case, more foot in foot. Been there several times. Sometimes on the bicycle as well. Hope it heals up quick.
I like the weekly update, I know my vote is rather small, but still all of the small votes do add up. You have a great product, I know you are concerned about post taking time away, and they would most post I do, even as simple as some of them are take me three or more hours to format and get out. Also more post mean more reading, and it is pretty obvious to everyone that uses your steemworld, and views these weekly post that you do care about your product and take time to respond to all the questions and a lot of the post, just reading them today took me some time and I only responded to one and made this comment.
For growth, maybe a very simple wednesday support/account build up post for us to just drop a vote on. No great depth or thought needed, just a "This is a test support post", try for a couple weeks and see how/if it helps much. And like everyone else sorry to hear about the foot. Hope it heals okay.
One of the best dapps out there for exploring and managing your account. SteemWorld is becoming an essential tool in the Steem ecosystem. Keep up the great work!