Ulogs.org Development Report: The Journey OnTo "True Celebrity-hood For Everyone, Once And For All."

In this post, i will be giving a report on the "overall development" that has occurred on ulogs.org so far. 

First off, ulogs.org started out as a fork of @busy.org and has began to shape up since then into its own model. A reshaping will continue to occur over-time as ulogs.org will continue to add new features ever-constantly and organically as it tries to play-out "community feature".

Development started out very slow but then, we implemented a model of development involving "micro-programming-tasks which has drastically improved the pace of development i.e we broke down each issue on Github, into very small pieces and added some form of bounty per task. 

Micro-programming-tasks can be as simple as "change icon", "embed a video", "replicate an existing feature", "change text" etc By this means, we removed "all barriers to entry" for developers to participate.

The first thing we adjusted is the preface of the website. Being a social interface for ULOGGERS, we had to change the general look of the homepage as seen below:


Our main hashtag is #ulog and this is what you will meet upon visiting https://ulogs.org as seen below:

We also change the default display for #ulog to "new" in place of "trending". So basically, the homepage is vibrant and fresh as new ULOG posts are published. 

In due time, we will change the default settings for each prominent #ulog-subhashtag to display "new" as well instead of trending.

Another key thing we changed is the algorithm that determines or recommends "interesting ULOGGERS". 

We want to created value for "becoming verified and certified ULOGGERS"; thus, we added a rule the grows a list of these ones determined by "steem accounts" followed by the @uloggers account, while keeping the "account age and reputation intact rule" intact.

Over time, ulogs.org will look for every avenue to celebrate and place the names of certified and verified @uloggers in additional light.

For the comment section, we changed the default display of comments to "sort by reputation" i.e display comments in order of reputation score. 

Among the reasons we did this, is to curb on the damage to user, that especially comments with phishing links can do, by keep these comments towards the bottom still, in cases these comments are voted up. 
In general, even if some of these comments can be graded out etc, in some cases, graded out comments spark curiosity more than its does apprehension. So, we decided to add one more step and have comments display by order of reputation score by default. 
Ofcourse, users can go ahead and change this display settings as desired. 

We changed the mainframe/structure of the main editor by adding a style guide, a drop-down menu leading to other areas of ulogs.org, a collapse function and a video embed area. The main editor now looks like this:

Overall, we will have a growing number of specialized editors and each of these editors will have its own style guide.

We have started the development of that as well. For now, you can write a normal steemit post on a separate editor:

You will have noticed from the drop-down in the screenshot above that you can also select editors for use, to write under #teardrops and #untalented but these editors aren't ready just yet as we are currently working on a bug on the main editor that disrupts the auto-save/draft function. 

There is also a "more ulogging?" tab as you can see in the drop-down above. Clicking on that will lead you to a core segment of ulogs.org as seen below:

Basically, ulogs.org has an entire space that incentivizes learning through the art of #ulogging (the conscious fun art of mining the human).

Expanding each of the segments as seen in the 4 screenshots below gives insight about what this segment is about:

From top to bottom

Alot will fill this space over the course of development.

In general, over the course of time, ulogs.org will begin to take shape; shaped around the world of #ulogging and #uloggers. It will be among the steem-based interfaces that will distribute the Teardrops SMT when the SMT protocol executes.

Kindly visit ulogs.org to test it or use it. Note; that ulogs.org allows you enjoy the steem ecosystem, so do well to enjoy time on it as you use it not only to create posts but also to comments, curate as "true fans" etc. With the implementation of micro-programming-tasks and bounties, development will move fast, once we are settled with core features as most of the tasks after that will simply involve replication of existing features.

This report is done under #utopian-io to intimate the world of developers out there that they can all participate. Even in the presence of time constraints or level of skill, you are sure to find a micro-programming task on our Github that you can take on. See our Github for a list of open issues:

https://github.com/surpassinggoogle/UlogsV2/issues

You can indicate interest in taking up an issue either in a comment on Github, on our telegram on https://t.me/teardrops_smt (look for @surpassinggoogle) or on discord: https://discord.gg/wWrnSXK (look for @surpassinggoogle)
You can also leave a comment below!

One more thing that was added on ulogs.org is an area to support the "steemgigs" witness. It is a "small box" area (on the right side) of the homepage of https://ulogs.org, which only shows up if you haven't already voted for the "steemgigs" witness. See screenshot below:


You can support what we do and the entire #ulog movement by voting for the "steemgigs" witness here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses or simply click Here to do it on one click! 


 Join the community here: https://discord.gg/gvGc6fj  

Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/teardrops_smt

Your Boy Terry

@surpassinggoogle

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Hi... Thanks for the contribution.

Really nice project and very good strategy to streamline the development process.

Although the format of your post in general is good, I can not find a reason to use so many text formats. You're using citing and quotes format to include general text. For the blog posts category is really important to have good looking submissions with excellent format. Take a look at this post to find some recommendations :).

Very good work with Ulogs. I hope successes on the road for the project.

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Hope you're always good Terry!
About ulogs.org, yesterday, my wife @thidaratapple was about to write her ulog post and when she typed in one sentence, it keeps on refreshing. She used write a ulog and when it was still refreshing, she decided to use steemit to post her Ulog.
Is there a problem about it, Terry?
Thanks for the good response.
More power!😎🤙

Yes, it will soon be fixed. That is the current bug. Basically, cos of other editors, the draft keeps wanting to save to the original editor. Once that is fixed, we will move faster with creating as many editors as needed. Thank you for using it. It can be used for comments and all. for ulogs, it can still be used but you will need to manually fill in the details like ulog intitle and first tag #ulog etc She can have posted from ulogs.org like a normal post here:
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Thank you very much, Terry!
I'll let her know about this. 😊

Works now

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Am suggesting if there can be a room for messages to saved on draft for later posting on #ulogs.org, to make it even far better than others...
Just a suggestion

Messages or posts? Posts now save

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What i meant is, just like esteemapp does, you can save on draft or bookmarks your post on your blog page for later submission
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you can too but for now you will need to go back to ykur draft to manually publiah it. but ulogs.org does autosave and keeps the draft, plus can bookmark posts. if you refer to scheduling posts, so that they autopost later, may be that will happen in the future

Thats will be a plus to the platform and will be it uniqueness, classy among others,making it stand out...

I have always tried busy, due to the bugs but I like the part where we are fixing the ulog.org to get I am hoping to try very very soon again.

I do like the interface of Ulogs.org since I primarily use Busy.org as my condenser of choice before.

It is also good that you have created a witness vote box for steemgigs we need to have more people vote you up and get you in the top 50.

Thank you. It will get really really interesting. You will really like it

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Hello Terry, the #ulog project is growing and will keep tgrowing - Amen. I solicit that ulogs.org be introduced into @ginabot services. Only busy.org and a few others are listed as platforms for the opening of posts. I know you can..,.

Soon it should be. I don't know how ginabot works etc but in due time.

@surpassinggoogle baba nla, this is absolutely incredible, i knew some thing great will come out of #ulog's project movement baba you nail down all other platforms, i bet you every #ulogger will spot a trace on platform which soonest guiness book of record wil rank it number 1 in the world.....

Baba ooooo Ole nu bi ponponponpon

In Jesus name. If you are reddit kindly subscribe and share ulogs.org links here: https://reddit.com/r/uloggers

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Just subscribed r/uloggers now on reddit,am gonna be sharing every #ulog links there, the world must here of #ulog platform down to the political vibes and parties

Hello sir, I want to know one thing from you, does ulog take part of the payout just like dtube and utopian-io. Also tell me when the teardrops SMT will be released. Thank you.

Nope it doesn't currently. Overall, all my interface i would like to keep free but more recently with the state of the community, it has become essential to use these interfaces to remind everyone of steem's beauty with every use, so there will be a neglible amt given back to steem or steemit inc as beneficiary. this hasnt been implemented yet but will be even on steemgigs.org but it will be very negligible. Like 0.something percent of author rewards. this will have massive impact in strengthening our community and this is key to steem growth. As for my small endeavors, i always want to keep all the tools free. Teardrops smt can only take effect when smt is ready but the endeavors to guide distribution has been ongoing for two years on steemit. We will remove "proof of tears" and proof of tears has to be unadulterated to an extent.

@surpassinggoogle great to see this project improving even more. Personally, I did not yet use it but am definitely looking forward to that moment. Keep up the good work Terry!

Cheers Bossman!

Thank you for supporting @tegoshei and @mashiliyanage’s #ulog. If it spreads to Japanese, is it better?

for sure. it is global

I like the ulogs.org interface as it is very similar to busy but the issue with the editor refreshing once fixed, it should be just awesome!