SteemPeak Release - Update v1.17 - Posts Search and New Voting Mana Bars

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Authored by @asgarth

A new version of SteemPeak is now available. With this release the ability to search for posts has finally been restored. Keep reading for more details about this and the other improvements ;)

The new release is now live at https://steempeak.com

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1. Posts Search

The biggest change in this release is the ability to search for posts. Give it a try at https://steempeak.com/search

The new search page is powered by eSteem Search with some additional refinements to better tune the provided results.

Considering that there is a monthly cost to us to use this service we are restricting the ability to use the page to logged in users. There is also a monthly limit to avoid abusing this service, if you hit the limit please contact us ;)

The layout of the page is also slightly improved:

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2. New voting (and downvoting) manabars

This is something that our users asked in the past and it's finally available. To avoid cluttering the interface too much the bars are visible when you hover with the mouse on the top right menu.

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Also if the voting mana is below 80% the color will change slightly to reflect that the mana will take more than one day to fully recover.

3. A new tribe is now enabled

The Natural Medicine tribe is now enabled.

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4. Update icons in the login popup

Steem Keychain and Stemmconnect icons in the login popup have been updated to match the current versions.

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Full Release Note:

Other than the major changes described above there are other small fixes and improvements. This is the full list:

- Improvement to Search page and allow to search for posts
- Show vote manabar in user menu
- Add Natural Medicine (LOTUS) tribe
- Update login icons for steemconnect/keychain
- Update default curators list
- Fix votes modal in Proposals page
- As always some minor bugfixes and improvements

Vote for the @steempeak witness

Now is probably a nice time to remind you that we run a witness server to help produce the blocks for the Steem Blockchain. You can vote for our witness so we are in a position to process more of them.

Vote on out profile page: @steempeak
Vote on the witness page: https://steempeak.com/witnesses

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This works for all witnesses BTW

  • Using Keychain: You just have to click and approve the transaction
  • Using SteemConnect: You'll need access to confirm the transaction with your Active Key at least
The SteemPeak Team

About us: https://steempeak.com/about
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Ah, great. I have missed the possibility to search for content for a long time. Thanks!

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Thanks, let us know if you have feedback ;)

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Great new update @steempeak! I am a bit unsure of the new search feature, though, as the few times I have used this feature, I have done it from here:

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So, the link you provide appears to be a completely separate interface. Are these two different ways then to Search? Or do both ways generate the same end result?

Edit: I think I have answered my own question, as they provide two different results. Anyway then to have what I have shown above linked to this separate new Search functionality?

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To search for posts you have to open the full page (click on the magnify lens). In the top bar only users and topics are displayed.

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Okay, thank you@asgarth. I was typing in the limited space there and thinking I would then click on the magnifying glass icon. I now see that just clicking on the icon first takes you to the great new interface you have built for us! 👍

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I agree I have clicked the magnifying glass several times expecting a similar result and been confused.

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Post searching is very important. I just tried it, though, and it's only returning a small percentage of the matching posts. E.g. if you search for 'ura-soul', you get back a random selection of posts from my time on Steem, but only probably 1% of them.

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https://search.esteem.app shows your posts as well as others who mentioned you in their post. Default ranking is Best which means it sorts with highest payout. Date shows with latest to oldest, Relevance uses relevant data ranking, which can be improved for sure. Steempeak should return similar results.

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We plan to improve it, is just a starting point ;)

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Great ok - an incomplete search that is incomplete at random is still better than an incomplete search provided by google that is incomplete deliberately and not at random!

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Presently each set of 20 results we get costs us and we want to make the results better and better.

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Oh I see, ok - I think you could improve it by providing different search filters or sort orders. At least that way we can stand a better chance that the 20 will contain what we need.
Also, in case you are unaware, the main search bar in steempeak doesn't work at all for me in firefox. I entire a search term and hit enter and nothing happens. If I click the magnifying glass after entering a search term, I am taken to the search screen but my search term has been lost.

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Yeah the search bar may have a couple issues with usability most people think that magnifying glass initiates a search... sadly it does not.

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So the search bar doesn't currently have a use other than to do a lookup for users?

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I guess that's probably true. The top search bard is only a lookup of accounts. Wow that seems kinda sad when you put it that way. We should make the UI better or even the wording so that people know the top search only finds accounts.

Seems there's a difference between this simple search and our new advanced search found on it's own page.

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I would probably remove the search input field totally for now and just leave the search icon so that people don't get confused or let down... then maybe update the search page so that it takes search inputs and so can be served as a result of the user running a search via the search bar in the traditional way.
if you make the search page take a search input you can also add steempeak to the list of searches supported by duckduckgo for example - which is pretty nice.

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Manabars: Cool feature, noticed that the tooltip does not always show up (both tested on Edge and Opera), I would prefer no delay for the tooltip or some solution to see the percentages immediately. Also any plans to bring the mana percentages to the mobile version, maybe display them in the drop-down menu?

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Mobile: absolutely, I just have to find the time to do it.

Delay: I don't want the tooltip to be displayed also when you just want to open the menu. Maybe I can tune the delay a bit more.

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Great that you synergize with esteem! Looks like their search engine is pretty good :)

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Thanks !! Are you on Discord? If yes can you ping me there? I would like to check with you one of the suggestions you made a while back ;)

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Yeah, but I barely use it when I'm traveling. It's not that cool via mobile :)

You can send me a dmail (https://app.dmail.online/inbox) to id: fav.id if you want!

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Great improvement steemspeak team.

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Sorry but we are not the steemspeak team. We are the steempeak team.
Speak vs Peak ... very different words and meanings haha

But we do appreciate the compliment.

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Sorry can please clear me what is the difference, i was thinking steemspeak is steenpeak token.

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Nope they are different organizations.
SteemPeak is our company
SteemSpeak is another group.

Just as simple as that we have NOTHING to do with SteemSpeak
Speak vs Peak similar in spelling but completely 100% different in meaning and completely different organizations.

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Thank you so much for the explanation

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Awesome update! 😁. Any chance you are working on fixing tags? The second five tags are still just decoration.

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Unfortunately that's not up to us. The official API works with only the first 5 tags :(

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Really good stuff guys! It just keeps getting better.

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That is one awesome upgrade that your team has done it will make the users(us) experience more productive and easier to use....well done to the team

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This post has been included in the latest edition of The Steem News - a compilation of the key news stories on the Steem blockchain.

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@asgarth feature request:

could you make invidio.us embedable/replace with youtube player?

example https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=XdobeLqhIBo

it's an alternative YT player with ZERO tracking or other garbage. very privacy friendly. you could even fork it and run yourself https://github.com/omarroth/invidious

thx!

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This is interesting but I'm not sure it's the best option for the final users. @jarvie and @justineh some feedback?

The youtube player is something the everyone recognize easily and everyone is familiar with. Switching to another player will make people a bit confused because they posted a youtube link and they don't see the embedded player they are used to.
Seems a change valuable only for a subset of users but can give headache to many of them.

Just my opinion, I would like more feedback on this one ;)

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I agree, but clicking a play button is not the hardest these days imo :)

I would like all steem apps to be more independent of Google products though

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