Over the past two weeks, we’ve released a few updates to PeakD, including new options for AutoVote trails, a clearer view of recent image uploads, and improvements to upload reliability. There have also been smaller changes to Snaps, tag filters, and peakd.blog loading of old posts. Here’s a look at what’s new.
More control over AutoVote trails
Following an AutoVote trail is a convenient way to support the same posts as another account, but you might not always want to follow every type of vote they cast.
When creating or editing a trail, you can now choose to exclude upvotes or exclude downvotes. For example, if you want to follow an account's upvotes but make your own decisions about downvotes, enable Exclude Downvotes on that trail. You can also do the reverse if that fits how you use it.
The rule editor also shows an estimated vote value when you set a specific vote percentage. This estimate assumes your voting power is at 100%, so the actual value can be different when the vote is cast. It should still make it easier to choose a percentage when setting up a rule.
A clearer picture of your image uploads
The Recent uploads panel in the editor now shows uploads for both Today and Yesterday, based on the daily quota period from midnight to midnight UTC. If you uploaded an image yesterday and want to use it in a new draft, you can find it there and insert it again without using more of your upload allowance.
The panel also shows uploads that are waiting for confirmation or encountered an error, along with available error details. Completed uploads count toward the day's allowance, while uploads waiting for confirmation reserve part of it. Yesterday's uploads don't affect today's allowance.
There is also some work behind the scenes to retry certain temporary upload failures automatically, including refreshing the upload authorization when needed. This applies to images uploaded through the editor as well as profile and community image uploads. Hopefully that means fewer interruptions when a connection or upload service has a brief hiccup.
A better indication of witness feed health
On the witnesses page, the price feed indicator now takes the reported price into account as well as the time of the last update. An older feed can still appear healthy if its price is close to the average of recently updated feeds from the top witnesses.
This gives a little more context when looking through the witness list, rather than treating the age of an update as the only signal.
A few smaller improvements
- You can now hide up to 15 tags in each of the separate post and Snaps exclusion lists, up from seven. You'll find them under Settings → Content.
- Snaps no longer waits for tip information before displaying the feed, so a slow or unavailable tips service shouldn't hold up the posts themselves. Tip information loads in the background.
- Blogs on peakd.blog now includes older posts published through SteemPeak when showing posts published through PeakD. If you've been writing since those days, more of your history can appear in your blog.
- The subscription page has been updated to make the available plan perks clearer, including the peakd.blog features and optional higher-quality image uploads available with Horizon.
Let me know how the new AutoVote options work for you, and whether the extra upload details help when something goes wrong. Feedback here or on Discord is always welcome.
