Waivio update: HF24 Effects & More

Hive Hardfork 24 proved to be much more difficult than expected (Tasks 837, 1021, 1022, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1030, 1031, 1032, 1063).

Some of the changes were discussed and anticipated, such as a new chain identification number. But there were other changes that were not widely discussed, such as the freezing of the post and comment vote count after 7 days.

Previously, votes after 7 days had no influence on payments, but they were still counted, so authors could always see if their content was appreciated by the community in the long run. But this is no longer the case.

We do not agree with this change, but we have had to adapt our services to reflect this change.

Now we invite users to pay tips to the author:

The same change had an even greater impact on the Object Reference Protocol, which was based on the same open public voting process for managing object updates. For example, if a user has updated the address of a restaurant, other users can review and either approve (upvote) or reject (downvote) the proposed change. If the user has made a valuable contribution, they could potentially receive author rewards, while other users would receive curation rewards for reviewing and confirming the proposed changes during the frist week.

As votes can no longer be counted beyond the initial 7-day window, Waivio introduced another protocol using Json records on the Hive blockchain to administer the approve/reject process. From the user's point of view, the voting process now works as before, except that contributors no longer receive any benefit for their efforts to improve the wiki records on Hive.

Now that the Waivio platform is stable again, we could explore a hybrid approach to voting on updates, combining the open voting process for the first 7 days and moving on to Json records after that.

Other updates:

1. Sponsor notifications - new reservations (954);
2. Page objects - new presentation (972);
3. Discover - highlight objects with rewards on the map (988);
4. Campaigns - introduced a threshold for non payments (1013);
5. Object cards - include top-voted tags (1020);
6. Drop down menu - new format, order and links (1060, 1061);
7. Wallet - history of power ups to different accounts (1064).

Bug fixes and minor updates:

469, 594, 831, 923, 943, 966, 968, 969, 973, 974, 977, 978, 979, 980, 982, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 989, 991, 992, 994, 995, 996, 997, 998, 999, 1000, 1001, 1003, 1005, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1016, 1023, 1024, 1025, 1026, 1036, 1038, 1040, 1043, 1045, 1046, 1047, 1049, 1050, 1052, 1054, 1057, 1059, 1080, 1082, 1085.

Tasks details: https://github.com/Waiviogit/waivio/issues

Waivio is an open source project. You may support by voting for Waivio proposals on the Decentralized Hive Fund.

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