Steeve Now in Public Beta: Personal Recommendations and the World Without Bidbots & Voting Trails
Steeve is a new platform running on Steem which uses AI to find interesting content for you. We released an alpha version about a month ago and we have been tirelessly working on it since then, incorporating all user feedback we got (see all changes since the last update). Let us take you through all major features Steeve has to offer now that we are going Beta!
Log in using SteemConnect
To fully interact with the blockchain (comment, vote, and do all the stuff you usually do on Steem) you need to authenticate using SteemConnect. Or if you just want to look around first and see the content Steeve found for you, you can select the Browse content only option. You can upgrade the posting authority later when you find something worth a vote or a comment.
Feed with Personal Recommendations
Ever felt tired of seeing content from the same authors in your feed day after day? And then getting lost in the tons of new posts when desperately searching the New section? Personal recommendations should help you with that. We have been waiting so long for somebody to implement this feature until we had to do it ourselves. Steeve recommends posts you might like based on your past activity on the blockchain - what posts you upvoted, who you follow, etc. You will find the recommendations mixed up with posts from your normal Steem feed.
Read Next
When you finish reading a post you really enjoyed, do you sometimes feel like you could read one more? Then the Read Next section is the right thing for you! If possible, Steeve will show you this section with suggestions of posts you might enjoy reading next based on the popularity among the other readers. We personally love this feature. :)
The World without Bidbots & Voting Trails
This will be probably one of the most controversial features Steeve has, but we just couldn’t help it and had to give it a try :)
Some people use bidbots every day and are happy that their voice can be heard even though they don’t sit on a huge pile of Steem Power. Other people would never do it and think that vote buying is bad for Steem. Well, now everybody has the chance to see for themselves what the world would look like without them!
When browsing a category (aka tag), Steeve filters out the automated votes for you so that you can see the trending posts as measured by the genuine user votes. The percentage of these genuine user votes is also shown side by side with the ordinary number of votes (highlighted below with the pink bounding box).
Your Section
The last part of our new platform is the section you will find after clicking on your avatar in the top right corner. Here you can conveniently see your blog, comments & replies, as well as your wallet and all your activity on the blockchain. This section should currently allow you to monitor all your interactions with others, and we will be adding more clever features on the go.
All the Little Tweaks..
There are more things on Steeve which you will hopefully find useful. For example, you can star stories you like so that you can get back to them later as well as bookmark your favorite categories. Or when writing a post you will see its preview side by side with the editor. And other little tweaks like that are all over, just get there already and find out for yourself!
https://www.steeve.app/
...and don’t forget to let us know what you think!
Who we are
We - @mor, @void and @hr1 - are a team of AI enthusiasts who want to leverage the technology for improving the user experience here on Steem blockchain.
Help us improve!
We are constantly testing new things and we need to hear what you think! We appreciate feedback - your votes, comments or ideas for improvement :)
For the web application-related problems we use an issue tracker. Or you can just comment under the post or contact us on our discord channel:
For upcoming updates don’t forget to follow @steeveapp!
I’m gonna take a look when I get back to home. I wonder how that “ai” works. It will be nice to have a read next button. It was a feature I’m also wanting and planning to write solely. And I really love to see a feed without “promoted” content
Wow just by five minutes I can say it’s totally a different experience. However I already found something to put into issue tracker on mobile version. Title font is so big that it doesn’t fit to screen so makes it buggy to scroll through.
The issue should be fixed now.
Attaching a screenshot would be great. What title do you mean exactly? What page, what context? Thanks!
Since I’m still on mobile it’s hard to report those but this exact posts title “recommendations” wprds doesnt fit the screen and many post with long links in their body also overflows the screen
https://www.steeve.app/@harry-heightz/is-steeditor-the-best-tool-for-utopian-contributions-review-of-steeditor-and-comparison-with-steemplus-and-utopianrocks-extension
And I just realised I needed my ppk to be able to upload pictıres. I’m gonna make a detailed pen testing when I get home
So far ı can tell there are things about voting slider and editor oncomment edtor. :) see you in issue tracker
Give it a try and let us know ;-)
I think that @hr1 and/or @mor may end up writing a post on how they did it.
In any case, if you do or don't like something, please let us know so that we can think about how to make things better!
Hey @void, where do I click to reply to the body of the post? I cant find
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Just scroll down to
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Hello, I am @fyrstikken, owner of the original bidbot @booster. I noticed you used our services to promote your bot-free front end/app.
I have spent some time on your website, watching the trending-page without promotion, and I did not get impressed by the "selected many"
Maybe you can tone down your hate towards the bidbot/promotion services. After all you and the majority on steem use them and delegate SteemPower to them and get extra income that way.
Sincerely,
The man behind @fyrstikken and @fyrst-witness, the CEO who commanded his company to put 130 Bitcoins into STEEM and bought a whale position which I can do with what I want, including upvoting you for free or for pay.
I am not going to comment very much more about your app. As it is not much to say about it. I just suggest to not use the "no bidbot experience" narrative.
Anyways, thanks for the business today. I hope they were all a positive and profitable experience for you.
Thank you for a valuable input. Steeve is more of an experiement, pretty dynamically evolving, and we will definitely will be aligning Steeve according to all your reactions.
So, this is merely a kickoff of the genuine votes feature, we have to decide where to take it next. There may as well just be a button in the UI that allows you to switch between regular and genuine mode not to promote no bidbot experience too much since you are right that it has its place. We will be discussing this in upcoming days.
Thanks again and have a nice day!
I'm really happy to see a no bidbot experience. I think those like @fyrstikken were naive to think people would want to see only advertisements and paid programming when traditionally that sort of content always receives the lowest ratings. This is just the most logical step forward. They made it so we could pause and record live television; skip the commercials. There's a skip button on every ad Youtube offers. This Steeve genuine content experience was exactly what's been needed here for a long time. Now genuine content producers who skip the middleman can work in front of a genuine audience again. That's brilliant. Thank you.
@botreporter
@trufflepig
I don't know if you have encountered those.
Have you guys taken votes from @smartmarket and @minnowbooster into consideration? Thats still a way to buy votes from everyday people not "bidbots" and still get into trending.
We know about these, but they are not treated in any special way because:
So, treating just these two in a special way would not change much in our listings.
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I couldn't agree with you more and the fact that they bought votes from bots for this post is a symbol that the supports Steemit neutrality principle, enables creation of platform for freedom of expression and creativity on the Internet. Are upvoting bots prohibited? No, so those that want to, are free to use them.
@fyrstikken this is so true. He is using bots for his post while trying to discredit them.
I will check your service for future needs.
We have been discussing this in another thread.
Anyway, I don't think that your argument is really valid 100%. We have tried to get through without paid promotion, you can check @steeveapp blog. It didn't quite work out that well, so we in the end decided to pay some bots. Which is not in conflict with the idea of genuine votes. We have to be realists, this is how Steem is at the moment.
And really, I have nothing against paid promotion, but I am not sure it should work the way it is now. But we will definitely be discussing and aligning genuine votes further.
So much hate for the bots. I wonder how this system would factor in services like SmartSteem where you buy the votes of actual (and some "actual") members. Would that make it to the trending section on Stevia or whatever it's called?
I don't think there is any hate for bidbots, we are just making it possible to view Trending in a different way. It's also an experiment to see whether that feature makes sense. We will be aligning it according to any valuable input.
In any case, I don't see any issues with being able to view Trending like that. We may add the regular Trending at one point, which will make it optional to view the filtered world.
True. Seems like now in a lot of the topics, the trending stuff is just whatever is boosted on SmartMarket.
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Ho ho ho i've been waiting for something simular for quite a bit of time now. Thumbs up boyz, will keep an eye on this :)
Well Steve sounds great.
While I am in the crowd of not minding the bidbots at all, I love it that you are trying to find a solution for those who do mind it.
This is great and I will check it out.
Fantactico genial
Realy
Oh wow, finally someone did it - awesome! Been thinking about something like this for months.
Exactly :D
Thank you guys, will definitely promote it in my community :)
@tipu upvote this post for 5 sbd
Thank you and happy steeving ;-)
First impression: the website looks very nice and clean on mobile!
Second impression: what do you guys think about "show less / show more" buttons? Do you think that users can further tailor their feed using this functionality?
Also would it be possible to split the feed between tags, that user can define?
I need to reach you on discord :)
Thanks for your comment and remarks!
The "show less / show more" button is actually already planned, but we unfortunately didn't yet get to it, but it has a the top priority now ;).
With the "split the feed between tags" feature please reach us on discord or write an issue/proposal in the issue tracker. We would be glad to discuss the details with you.
Holly cow, on desktop I just noticed the "add category" button (didn't notice it on mobile). As I understand, this is something like "favorite tags". This is actually something that I proposed to be implemented on steemit 2 years ago.
Thank you very much for adding it :D
Ps. I also proposed easy tipping users, which of course wasn't implemented so I made my own version of it :) tip! 2
Yeah, you could not see it on mobile because it is only available on desktop right now :-) But this could change since people are using Steeve on mobile quite a lot it seems.
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Check out @cardboard blog here and follow if you like the content :)
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Good job.
I can't keep track of all stuff going on on steem lately.
Good times ahead I guess.
Yeah, me neither since I spent almost all my time digging into Steeve :D
This looks promising!
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Hi @stellabelle, it's been a long time! I am curious to hear what you think :)
as one of the new steemians i want to use this app..
I will 100% be using this to surf content! Bid-bots have there place but I can’t tell you how often I wanted to scroll through trending and see what the curators genuinely enjoyed!
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great app!