#dtube

Steemit Community Contributions (D.tube Embeds!)

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At Steemit, we want to empower community developers to help improve steemit.com and steemitwallet.com. We have an amazing developer community that we have failed to fully honor in the past. We know that many of them have become disillusioned with the process of contributing to Condenser (the software that powers steemit.com and steemitwallet.com) and we want to do whatever we can to reverse that. That’s why we are working on updated Community Guidelines that will help developers understand the process and to simplify it at the same time.

While we are developing those guidelines, @roadscape (the architect of Hivemind) is working through the backlog of community pull requests (suggested code changes submitted by developers from the community) and has now either merged, closed, or provided feedback to, all PRs.

D.tube Integration!

We are excited to announce that you can now embed D.tube videos into steemit.com! @tibfox submitted the original PR that would allow users to embed D.tube videos. D.tube was one of the earliest apps to launch on Steem, and the first to offer a platform that was entirely distinct from blogging. We wanted to add this feature when the PR was originally submitted, but security concerns (unrelated to D.tube) prevented us from doing so.

Now that we have separated Steem wallets (now at steemitwallet.com) from the social features of steemit.com, we are able to merge this change without compromising user security. At the time of the Condenser split we explained that this change would enable us to improve both steemit.com and steemitwallet.com more rapidly, and that is exactly what we are starting to see.

D.tube PR: Community - Add support for embedded dtube videos #3296

Here's an example of what it looks like featuring community member @justineh!

Standouts

Here are some of the other improvements that have now been integrated into steemit.com:

From @smittyvb: Add link to @steemitblog in sidebar #3287

Adds a link to @steemitblog ensuring that more users learn about the primary communications channel used by Steemit Inc.

From @timcliff: Community - Update FAQ for HF20 #3285

Helps educate users about changes that were made through HF20 and how they might affect their user experience

From @blockchainstudio (@economicstudio on github): Community - add share markdown (hyperlink markdown copy to clipboard) #3284

Enables steemit.com users to copy hyperlink markdown to their clipboard as opposed to just the URL

Additional PRs

There are still a lot of great contributions in the backlog that we plan on getting to as soon as possible. If you submitted a PR and have received feedback, please resolve any issues and we’ll be sure to merge the code as soon as possible.

Special thanks to @blockchainstudio for all the great contributions!

Open Source

One of the things that makes steemit.com so special is that it is an open source social media site built on an open source blockchain. That means that Steem users can help guide the development of the very platform they are using and is one of the reasons we’re so excited about the Steem Proposal System hardfork that was written predominantly by the community developer @blocktrades. We believe that empowering our users to help mold steemit.com will be critical, not just to the site’s success, but to the success of the ecosystem as a whole as steemit.com still represents one of the primary “faces” of Steem.

Not a programmer?

Even users who can’t code can write posts about the features and functionalities they want to see, which developers can then use to inspire code contributions. They can even leverage @utopian-io just as @blockchainstudio did in his post Smart hyperlink paste / copy to clipboard for easy reference. That feature was actually used to share that link! So meta!

Thanks again to the amazing Steem community for contributing to steemit.com whether it’s by posting content or submitting code contributions! If you have more ideas for how to improve the site, don’t forget to head on over to our github repo!

The Steemit Team

Comments · 50

@rudyardcatling(65)· 2668d
" leverage utopian-io "

good one ...

i'll get me a suit and learn how to make the secret handshake sign and take a course in eL33Tist-speak ...

other than that mostly great except the downvote button which is a really baaaaed idea imo, its probbaly hoping to in some way have to fork out less from the pool but i don't think its the smallfry there who are your issue and the big fry do it "as its done" ...

its an open invitation for trolling and spite

all the rest seems great !!! thanks for the hard work !!!
@tryezz(60)· 2673d
Truthfully, I am still somewhat new to this platform. I chose it mainly because of DTube, and looked at it as a new beginning of posting content on a different and new system. Very cool to see how things are growing not only for DTube but Steemit in general. Always much appreciated.

Always a Student.
@jaalig(58)· 2674d
Tremendous update. DTube Integration, among other things, has been long awaited. It is very encouraging to finally see improvements to the platform taking shape. I wonder if, as with the case of being able to embed Soundcloud content into one's post, an ability to do the same with DSound will follow in the near future? DTube and DSound Dapps are a natural fit for Steemit and would help content creators provide their subscribers and the community at large with with an improved experience. Continued success for all the volunteer developers and other contributors to Steemit.
@evildido(61)· 2674d
Wow ! Now BitTube :)
@nathanmars(75)· 2675d
Thanks a million @tibfox
@amd64(48)· 2675d
These D.Tube embeds won't load for me. The circle just keeps spinning :( And it says "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported." With a big X in the middle.
@meedo(46)· 2675d
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@lizbethk(59)· 2675d
Hey steemitblog!
@florian-glechner(78)· 2675d
Oh, yes, now i might consider upload some videos on dtube instead of youtube. I need to test the usability first, but if it works fine you have me. :-)
@sargoon(68)· 2675d
Great update.

What about mainnet? Is there any update about MIRA? We have been waiting for the STEEM Mainnet update for more than 1 month.
@arcange(79)· 2675d
Congratulations @steemitblog! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
- Comments - Ranked 3 with 78 comments
@hotsauceislethal(66)· 2675d
We need to increase the ease of use for the UI and perhaps integrate some of the ideas that Steempeak, Steemauto and Steemworld are using. Perhaps a Steemit "tool belt" that includes user friendly sites and dapps.

The confusing nature of this site pushes new people away because it is simply too complicated.
@chrisrice(68)· 2675d
@elipowell is turning the #SteemShip around.. good job Eli & good job @ned for getting us to 2019 and hiring @elipowell 👍😊
@leotrap(72)· 2675d
Amazing job team! This is a great example of how we can make the Blockchain much more powerful step by step! Well done @tibfox and @roadscape now all the DTubers will have one more reason to keep on doing content!

Peace V!
@davidfar(70)· 2675d
I am happy that finally you guys added a new feature to Dtube, that's really great, I hope you guys will do the same for Steemit, and listen to users like me who is asking you to add features to Steemit, why people use instagram? because it has new features, steemit still doesn't has a proper app for mobiles, it doesn't let people (artists) to have a portfolio on their page, this is where they (artists) will feel like this is not where they can present their works. and this became like a place to just sell a work once and not more, for example an artist working 24 hours on a project which by steemit's help it will bury down and be forgotten on his/her page. (and don't forget to add the ability to pin introduction/about artist's post on our page)

I hope one day you guys will listen to us,

thanks,

D.F
@arifullah(43)· 2675d
I appreciated the update @tibfox thats amazing
@ssteemhunter(39)· 2675d
Awesome update, I appreciate that so much! @tibfox
@steemitboard(66)· 2675d
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@fycee(60)· 2675d
Thanks for this update. It would only mean that I need to level up my blogging career posting videos as well. DTube is an awesome condenser to share the videos we also want our fellow steemians to visit. I may not be a programmer to make a significant contribution but I would be more than glad to promote the extensive benefits we get from steemit.
@hackersg(29)· 2675d
@steemitblog awesome update. I know the community of Dtube thank you so much.
@dragonblades(63)· 2675d
This is something that will boost both steemit and Dtube. i would like to add video to my comments so simple as i add photos by drag & drop them.

i am so happy that i join steem community and see the growth of it
@direwolf(65)· 2675d
Excellent update!
@hijosdelhombre(66)· 2675d
Are you working on writting a search engine like AskSteem? Nice improve! Keep the kitchen working!
@tibfox(74)· 2676d
Thank you for executing changes, communicate them in that nice and understandable way and to look forward. I follow your GitHub changes and there is a lot of movement in the last week's. Love to see this! Keep going and thx for mentioning me :) I feel famous and important ^^

Peace!
@bitcoinflood(80)· 2676d
Do new d.tube posts still get auto posted over to steemit ? Or does this embeding option replace this ?
@bosferi123(61)· 2676d
thanks for the information. This is very useful for all of us here Thanks you

@Steemitblog
@tokenslots.com(42)· 2676d
This is awesome! dtube rules!
@bitrocker2020(79)· 2676d
cool update on d.tube ! now all we need is a playlist option .. =)
@smitop(54)· 2676d
From @smittyvb: Add link to @steemitblog in sidebar #3287
- Adds a link to @steemitblog ensuring that more users learn about the primary communications channel used by Steemit Inc.
That was me :)
@khairulmuammar(66)· 2676d
STEEMIT IS DEATH
@stackin(78)· 2676d
Thanks for the update! More of these every week would be better 😀

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@blockchainstudio(72)· 2676d
@roadscape, thanks a lot for including my works! Wow, I did many things :) Those hyperlink markdown copy function is useful indeed :) @economicstudio is my main GH account (although it's also my alt on steemit). It'd be great if you could mention that @economicstudio=@blockchainstudio since I don't use the other account almost at all.

By the way, how about giving an upvote from steem official account to contributors ? :) As you know utopian's voting power decreased a lot recently. While most people including me don't do those jobs for money, but it'll be cool to get voting from any official account regardless of the voting amount. Or how about @ned following contributors? Actually you were my favorite example in my several contributions :) Thanks!
@phoenixwren(73)· 2676d
YEAH I'm so happy that DTube embeds are a thing now, that's fantastic! OK so I'm not a developer at all, but there is this thing when you are selling SBD for Steem on the internal market, the price gets borked. I wrote about it in my little newbie guide I wrote yesterday, if you don't know what I'm talking about and want to see an example: https://steemit.com/spud/@phoenixwren/newbie-guides-how-to-convert-sbd-to-steem-on-the-internal-market ...is that a thing that can be fixed? I'm sure it stumps a lot of people and a lot of orders are held up because the person doesn't realize they put in an order for cheaper than the cheapest ask available. It took me forever to figure out a workaround. Many thanks to anyone who can help! :)
@epic-fail(70)· 2676d
I still can't upload to dtube though, always get errors
@videosteemit(62)· 2676d
Great job!

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@coruscate(77)· 2676d
Hold the phone ☎️ 😱

This is AMAZING!!! Great job @heimindanger and team. This is a super exciting development!
@prydefoltz(75)· 2676d
I think supporting Dtube is a very good move.
@chesatochi(73)· 2676d
Wow, this is just so fuc**** amazing, great job guys! I am very happy!
@distantsignal(66)· 2676d
Still seeing "(Unsupported https://emb.d.tube/#!/justineh/u6qoydvy)" when visiting this post in @busy.org and @steempeak!
@jongolson(82)· 2676d
Awesome update. I know the Dtube community will appreciate that so much.

And oh yeah @tibfox for president!!!

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@thekitchenfairy(77)· 2676d
💣💥💣💥

This is superb that dtube can be embedded now.

Woohoo 💃💃💃💃
@soyrosa(75)· 2676d
Congratz @tibfox - that is going to make many Steemians very very happy :D

Congratz to the Steemit Team as well for making this kind of progress - even though some will say/think this took 'too long' I'd like to just appreciate that the communication and collaboration with the members of the community is happening now :-) Cheers!
@jrcornel(82)· 2676d
There seems to be a bug when you use the 100% power up feature on comments. It won't let you post a comment when you have that option checked. It says "RPCError: unknown key: unknown key:". I have seen several users having trouble with that recently.
@aussieninja(70)· 2676d
This is awesome! As a huge DTube fan this is an extremely welcome change! The really exciting part is the combing through PRs... passionate people have done a ton of work for you, for free, and it's amazing that you've now got an opportunity to leverage that. I can only imagine that as these sorts of changes get implemented and rolled out, that will only encourage other developers to contribute as well.
@greencross(70)· 2676d
all hail the big @tibfox

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@dalz(81)· 2676d
It was about time .... great one :)

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@pixiepost(74)· 2676d
This is great & will open a whole new level of the user friendly feel to Steemit. As an avid Dtube content creator, this makes me very happy.

Thank you! 🙌❤☺

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@bluengel(71)· 2676d
Goooooood ! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 Dtube Integration ! ♬♬

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@maxdevalue(69)· 2676d
Good to our ears! Great reshuffling!

Keep calm and STEEM on!!

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@buttcoins(75)· 2676d
@tibfox is the man!!! Any suggestion from him is going to be legit!!

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