#steemit

Communities Have Arrived!

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We are excited to announce the official release of Communities on Steemit.com!

With this release steemit.com transforms from a decentralized blogging platform, to a decentralized communities platform similar to reddit.com, and finally delivers on its original promise as stated in the Steem Whitepaper:

Collectively, user-generated content has created billions of dollars worth of value for the shareholders of social media companies, such as Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter. In 2014, Reddit hypothesized that its platform would be improved if everyone who contributed to reddit.com by posting stories, adding comments or voting were rewarded with a fair share in Reddit, Inc. Steem aims to support social media and online communities by returning much of its value to the people who provide valuable contributions by rewarding them with cryptocurrency, and through this process create a currency that is able to reach a broad market, including people who have yet to participate in any cryptocurrency economy.

Steem is capable of handling a larger user base than Reddit. In 2015 Reddit’s 8.7 million users generated an average of 23 comments per second, with an average of 83 comments per year per user. There were 73 million top-level posts, for an average of 2 new posts per second. There were about 7 billion upvotes creating an average voting rate of 220 votes per second. All told, if Reddit were operating on a blockchain it would require an average of 250 transactions per second.

Steem has now proven that it can handle orders of magnitude more transactions than necessary to support an application like Reddit, and thanks to innovations like Hivemind and MIRA, it can do so without hitting scalability bottlenecks. Also thanks to Hivemind, users can expect the Communities features to rapidly improve over time because we no longer need update the blockchain itself in order to improve steemit.com and other Steem-powered applications.

Transforming Social Media

While many claim to be using blockchain technology to disrupt the social media landscape, with today’s public release we believe we are demonstrating once again that the Steem blockchain and steemit.com remain years ahead of the competition.

We would like to give a special thanks to the developers and users who helped us make Communities on steemit.com what you see today:

@eonwarped: notifications UI, keychain, beta testing
@quochuy: profiles UI, new design, beta testing
@inertia: beta testing (!!)
@jarvie: protocol support, beta testing (!!)
@therealwolf: beta testing (!)
@asgarth: protocol support, beta testing
@good-karma: beta testing
@howo: beta testing
@gandalf

Honorable mentions go to:

@crimsonclad
@justineh
@themarkymark
@fredrikaa
@acidyo
@wehmoen

The Steemit Team

Comments · 129

@thesimpson(59)· 2366d
I can't find news ? I used to enjoy coming to steem for alternative news sources, but now I can't find the tags ... help please
@harryji(65)· 2367d
Dear Steemit Team,

I appreciate your hard work for steemit community and blockchain itself. but it’s very hard agree with your opinion in terms of your idea of what we should focus on and we should have focused on more up to now.

I think that the blockchain technology itself is not the priority that we Steemit team and many talented contributors should have focused. We Steem are not just blockchain or crypto currency. We are social media blockchain. That means we need members to join in our society and ecology with so much interests and make them contribute this community with excited mind.

So at this moment, please do not spend so much effort to technology itself. Rather that that, focus on the basic functions of social media such as good interactiveness and communication function appearance at least of the level of facebook and at the same time please focus on promoting Steem concept and the advantage of steem to general people, not to professional programming engineer. Maybe you need some specialist for this activities with marketing mind.

if I have some time, I will explain more and describe more detail in my blog as a strategist has had several years business plan and strategy experience and study.
@jacobtothe(77)· 2368d
Posting bugs galore. Posting in last-viewed community instead of personal blog. Link to switch from community post to personal post does not work. It has been 9 days. This may drive me to another frontend if you don't fix this broken premature feature rollout.
@paywithlawv(44)· 2369d
nifty
@leprechaun(66)· 2369d
How are "communities" different from some "topic" to the user? Now, I see with communities you can become an Admin to some topic. What else do "communities" mean?
@hardaeborla(69)· 2370d
Is it allowed to make the same posts on both community and personal blog?
@martybostick(56)· 2370d
Way to go team. This is going to be awesome. Just trying to imagine a decentralized Reddit :)
@carldavies(30)· 2371d
Exciting news for all steemit users.
@satoshi0x(46)· 2371d
@novacadian this can only be beneficial to us #DevSTEEM -ians as well :)
@slon21veka(46)· 2371d
Nice
@martaesperanza(66)· 2372d
As a content creator, who spends hours of hard work to create posts, I am so grateful for steemit being one of the very little social media platforms who appreciates content creators and understands we are a backbone to any media sharing platform! Excited for all the positive changes in steemit and all that the future holds for it! Steemit all the way!
@kimmysomelove42(59)· 2372d
Looks interesting.... look forward to seeing how this enhances this platform, thanks for sharing!
@arupkumer(45)· 2372d
its good decitions
@joshuaetim(62)· 2373d
It seems like finally, a revival is coming to Steemit Inc
@mepatriot(70)· 2374d
I was always told that once we had "communities" we would be able to block ideological downvoters who never post, EVER, but who are simply here to downvote EVERY POST of someone whose world view they don't like, for example, @bloom-- who never posts but is just here to downvote every post I ever make (and has down so now for many months--totaling thousands of downvotes and hundreds in lost rewards for me.)

So, now that it is here, how do I block him?

Ummm....yea...I never really thought so...
@ackza(74)· 2374d

Steem is capable of handling a larger user base than Reddit. In 2015 Reddit’s 8.7 million users generated an average of 23 comments per second, with an average of 83 comments per year per user. There were 73 million top-level posts, for an average of 2 new posts per second. There were about 7 billion upvotes creating an average voting rate of 220 votes per second. All told, if Reddit were operating on a blockchain it would require an average of 250 transactions per second.

Steem has now proven that it can handle orders of magnitude more transactions than necessary to support an application like Reddit, and thanks to innovations like Hivemind and MIRA, it can do so without hitting scalability bottlenecks. Also thanks to Hivemind, users can expect the Communities features to rapidly improve over time because we no longer need update the blockchain itself in order to improve steemit.com and other Steem-powered applications.

WOW that is so epic. I feel like this deserves its own post

This is building on the idea of steem being anti fragile or self correcting, basically the mroe users, teh stroinger it gets not the other way aroud. Steem literally got users to join in deve;opmenta nd help allow itself to scale and build subreddit style systems better than i could have ever imagined thanks to contributions by steemians like @wehmoenwhose name i will be name dropping increasingly as communities becomes more and more popular.
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@sharanaithal(62)· 2374d
Nice.
@classic.canadian(59)· 2374d
Spectacular!! keeps getting better everyday! Thank you !
@artgirl(69)· 2374d
Ok, the search function is working now. Can you also put a FAQ on communities in the Steemit FAQ section pls?

This is getting more complicated to use. Why isn't all posts going to show up on Steemit like normal? Why will posts only show up on certain communities and not on others depending on the tags?

Wth is going on here? Does it mean my Steemit posts won't show up on other communities because I'm not on them? Like Steempeak or any other community dapp? This is terrible. 😢😢😢

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@marjuanm(60)· 2374d
And what difference is there against the normal steemit blog?
@intellihandling(64)· 2375d
This is the reason why i cannot see my on my steemit account page my latest post?
@amaterasusolar(65)· 2375d
I really don't grasp all this. I just want to share awareness of a better way to operate Human society such that the caring Ones take care of things, not promoting psychopaths to power, as do the present systems. I don't see how this "communities" thing will help in that effort.

I hope someOne can give Me a clue as to how this effort can be facilitated.
@mattmcguire(61)· 2375d
perfect
@harryji(65)· 2375d
Excellent work. Hope it would be good ignition point to cheer up this community
@oresteg(54)· 2375d
Excelente iniciativa
@xplosive(72)· 2375d
Steemit is online since 2016. I think that the communities should have been the first thing to introduce on Steemit. Not four years after the introduction of the website. The communities should have been on Steemit since the introduction of Steemit. Or at least since a short time after the introduction of Steemit.
@zerojazz(56)· 2375d
Hey! im new here and i have a question... Can I create my own community? and if the answer is yes... How I create a community??
@teukuwahyudi(56)· 2375d
Good idea. I really like
@coinchaos(63)· 2375d
How do you know what communities are allies and which ones are enemies? Need better definition of sides. I want to know who is gonna fight who. You know? So we can validate this blockchain already.
@stefano.massari(75)· 2375d
Good news... congratulations for the work you are doing. I like Communities.

I am trying to spread the news that STEEMIT is the social network of the future and that by using it you have earnings.

This is a post shared on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/EMBLEMArockband/status/1231171139826835456

This is a post shared on my telegram channel: https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=c1190703227_11988397315717119519

keep in touch!
@vikisecrets(80)· 2375d
Technical question: Can two communities have the exact same name like on fb for example? (but different hive-ids of course)
@coinboost(48)· 2375d
Finally, we got it. Fantastic job, team. I hope Steemit will take place in one of the top userbase media sites very soon. Lately, I thought we are losing some valuable users, would like to see them back again. :)
@angel33(39)· 2375d
Good to see the communities
@jeff-kubitz(67)· 2376d
Great work and informative post how do we sign up for communities?
@jaki01(77)· 2376d

We would like to give a special thanks to ...

... the many small and medium sized Steemians who created and tested their own little communities. Right? :)
@omrfrq18(43)· 2376d
Thanks for this information.
@cryptogee(76)· 2376d
So how do people find post that aren't in a specific community?

I can't believe these things aren't thought of beforehand...

Cg
@umeridrisi(25)· 2376d
Can we really earn with this platform? is there a guide on this? I am not able to understand how the platform works.
@ew-and-patterns(71)· 2376d
The UI needs to be improved a lot... I can't filter out resteemed posts anymore (are we going backwards eh?) I now need one click more to get to my feed (my friends). This is the most clicked button, it should be reachable on your blog. No easy access to posts by steemitblog anymore.

I must say I am not impressed. The layout is good but not well thought through.
@kingtee-rex(44)· 2376d
How do you even search for communities? Been trying the search tool...says 'nothing found' How do you subscribe to a community?
@artgirl(69)· 2376d
Oh that's great but what happened to the Steemit search function? It's not giving me any results today...

How about people who prefer not to use various condensers and just Steemit? Egads too many sites to log into. Come on...
@joeyarnoldvn(68)· 2376d
I wonder if Steem or at least an app of Steem should remain as simple in the UI as possible. Some would say so.
@cynetyc(70)· 2376d
Thank You Steemit and to all the people involved. Soon I will make 4 years here and it was and amazing journey here on this beautiful platform and community.
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@lunaticmedic(25)· 2376d
Just joined the community, you can say that I’m your every day redditor. I see potential in this social media platform however I’m yet to understand how me and the people who follow me will mutually benefit for my activities in the platform. Looking forward to improve my experience as well as those who would like to hang out on my posts.
@camiloferrua(72)· 2376d
Hello, this is great! How can I create my own community?
@muscara(70)· 2376d
I made a German translation for a better information for the German speaking steemians.
@bluengel(71)· 2376d
there's a significant glitch in searching ! nothing comes out to the searched result !

make quick fix plz 💙
@enginewitty(78)· 2376d
Will we be able to assign specific tags to communities?
@capri-reader(51)· 2376d
Wow, thanks! :)
@cladust(20)· 2376d
We shall see.
@holovision(73)· 2376d
The search bar in the explore communities section doesn't seem to work 100%. I can type in arduino or TV and find at least one group but if I type in science or politics nothing comes up and I know there is a politics community I started. I would be surprised if there wasn't at least one science community also.

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@teukuwahyudi(56)· 2376d
amazing I like, support and upvote me. may you be blessed
@nelar(49)· 2376d
Really nice....
@kayceefresh(57)· 2376d
Now that's what we have been talking about
@niaziboy(54)· 2376d
Amazing update, we love it❣️👌💋
@errickravi(31)· 2376d
So this will help for authors ?
@farwabaloch(25)· 2376d
hyy.I need help to use this app
@ayijufridar(73)· 2377d
I think this is like dividing a community into a certain cluster. I also looked at it like a rubric in a news portal. I think all members of the community need time to get used to it.

Warm regard from Indonesian Steemit Community.
@karenmckersie(74)· 2377d
I dont get h9wcommunities works, nothing looks any different to me on my Chromebook, is this only for computers!?
@luckys(52)· 2377d
Thanks for being with us always.
@crypticat(74)· 2377d
Great start and I'm glad you gave recognition to some testers. There is still a lot of work to do here with the communities and I hope things continue to improve on Steem. Thanks Steemit!
@aoc(28)· 2377d
A better platform indeed.
@dporn(62)· 2377d
Glad to see communities finally arrive.
@sathyasankar(65)· 2377d
This is really a great news. Time to have some fun!
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@kramgelo(54)· 2377d
Justin hyping it now..! :)
@basilmarples(65)· 2377d
cool and hooray and whoopee and HELL YEAH! Thats what Im taaaaaaalking about! communities here we come!!!
@elotro(57)· 2377d
Steemit is here to stay!
@trinabril(58)· 2377d
Saludos.

Aunque apenas comienzo en SETEEMIT y por tanto estoy en pleno aprendizaje, es un gusto participar en las innovaciones que ofrecen.

Mucho éxito.
@oppongk(69)· 2377d
Thanks for thos brilliant ideas.
@rok-sivante(77)· 2377d
where can I find a "how to" type guide on how to manage a community as an adminstrator?

I've created one, though am a little stumped on how to proceed at this point.

The only options I see available are to edit the community description, roles, and add posts. From what I've seen with other communities, it'd appear that it's possible to have all older posts with a given hashtag show up in the community thread - which would be great to do. Would appreciate a basic rundown on this, as well as get clear on any other functionalities, etc that might not be totally clear on the front end. (i.e. can we post to a community and our own blog simultaneously, or it is either-or? etc)

Thanks!
@esecholo(65)· 2377d
I like that communities is live but I feel like now tags aren't nearly as prioritized. I have no problem with the communities but it would be great to allow us to still search things with tags (similar to how the old version was). Seems kinda odd that you would take away that feature, just to push communities.
@conformity(75)· 2377d
The search function doesn't work! Is this going to be fixed?
@crell(60)· 2377d
Hm. Can I post a bug report? :-) It seems the description and rules fields for a community do not support line breaks. They say you should post one rule per line, but hitting Enter does nothing; even pasting in a multi-line string gets folded to a single line.

I dunno what's up with that.
@afiqsejuk(59)· 2377d
Congratulations to the Steemit Team for successfully rolling out an update that transformed the face of steemit.com. With these changes and the secure funding of the Tron blockchain, we will see more updates being rolled out faster and this is just the beginning. Upvoted!
@theexcelclub(67)· 2377d
way cool,
@worldfinances(61)· 2377d
So... Where to find or make these "communities"?
@michaeljn(68)· 2377d
Great thanks for improvements and continuously thinking of ways to improve user experience. We just need to get on-boarding sorted and super easy then we should see people flooding to our platform. Great work
@forykw(71)· 2377d
Let's now see how other UIs (like @esteemapp) shape things into this. It would be nice to see things being developed in a way where all developers would automatically get the "support" of the new features. Basically easing out the speed of change behind the scenes for their apps to support the just newly released features.

Something around the @openseed concept.

In another words, not just a library or group of them. But a framework, where when the app developer uses part of it, it basically using a format of code already implicit in the framework.

Sort of like the model of Apple developing for iOS.

Of course there are goods and bads about that approach. Freedom to improve will be reduced and constrained to the framework format, but speed of development and new apps will appear much faster.
@eirik(69)· 2377d
Big!
@gingerninja(61)· 2377d
Nice! It's good to finally see communities rolled out :)
@dulynoted(35)· 2377d
Hi Steemit Team!

I see that there are many duplicate communities, such as; Food.

Will this be fixed or will users soon be able to set a URL name to prevent confusion?

Thank you and amazing work!
@whatisnew(66)· 2377d
Problem. I am not able to post using Steemit. Any suggestions?
@stackin(78)· 2377d
Looks pretty good, let’s see where it goes 😎
@rowell(71)· 2377d
@lyon89(72)· 2377d
EXCELLENT, I have always had faith in this community, I am really happy, QUE VIVA STEEMIT !!...BRAVOOO !!
@marcybetancourt(70)· 2377d
I can't deny that I have great emotion! Expectations seem to be very good for everyone. Infinite greetings @steemitblog
@redheadpei(72)· 2377d
Thanks to the team for these new changes. Steem on and carry on. 💕
@donald.porter(67)· 2377d
Great work! I'm a bit more excited about native notifications; can't have a social network without them, or else user retention suffers. Will we be getting Push notifications soon or do you suggest we build upon the new feature?
@lennstar(66)· 2377d
And the search function does not work??

Or are there simply not enough communities atm so it has no change?
@ura-soul(78)· 2377d
Excellent! I look forward to this new era of community co-operation/warfare! lol :)
@aestheticsplus(35)· 2377d
Fantastic job!! Sounds like a great step.
@kebieri123(48)· 2377d
This will remove all the bottlenecks inherent in a wide, yet slim-broaded community
@steemitqa(64)· 2377d
History in the making and I needed to leave a comment. saying hi to myself in the year 2025! waves also, join my introduce yourself community!
@planetauto(74)· 2377d
We're loving the community features, and ours is flying, thank you team.
@maxwellmarcusart(80)· 2377d
Weldone to all steemit developers and everyone else behind this. It's really nice to see that there is a community on steemit.com. however, I am yet to key in to this cause I haven't been able to access the bata site. I think I should give it a try once again.✌🙄
@doitvoluntarily(80)· 2377d
some very interesting changes!
@leomoji(15)· 2377d
excelente publicación, de igual manera soy nuevo en esto y quiero aprender mas y mas.
@good-karma(77)· 2377d
Thanks for mention! Exciting times ahead, we are also preparing our Communities integration on eSteem soon to be released.
@wqhxm521(25)· 2377d
Try it out and learn about it, hopefully it's fun.
@father2b(59)· 2377d
I personally am enjoying the new feel

I started on steemit some years back but moved my focus to a different platform although still frequenting here. The communities already have made it easier for me to find individual interests and people. The real plus for me though has to be notifications. That is an excellent feature and one i can see getting better as Steemit progresses.

well done core team
@whyaskwhy(56)· 2377d
In a less technical language can any explain the core different between communities and plain blogging block chain??

This will be deeply appreciated!

I hope I don't sound too naive!
@steevc(80)· 2377d
I remember this being talked about at Steemfest 2, so it has been a while. I really hope communities can bring people together around the topics they love and make Steem even more social.

Steempeak already supports communities too!
@steempeak(72)· 2377d
We are very excited about this new development and very appeciative you guys paved the way to integrate the protocol into hivemind!
@raycoms(71)· 2377d
Small bug report:

When I go to "all posts" and then refresh the page, it resets me to a different page.
@shitsignals(63)· 2377d
!trdo
@oluwoleolaide(70)· 2377d
Well done team, so what's next for SMT now that the communities have been rolled out.
@gadrian(76)· 2377d
Congratulations for the release, but even more for Hivemind which makes everything and much more possible @roadscape!
@habibabiba(67)· 2377d
That's really amazing.
@ats-david(75)· 2377d
Wow! Thanks, Justin Sun!
@condra(68)· 2377d
For all the grumbling, Steemit has seemingly become a very viable Reddit competitor, overnight! Gonna be really interesting seeing how this all plays out.
@sydroc(57)· 2377d
Holy shit this is so exciting!!! I can't wait to explore! 😃😍😃
@tomlee(71)· 2377d
This is awesome! It is indeed a great development.

If this could happen in less than 2 weeks, I'm anticipating more developments in less than no time.
@ew-and-patterns(71)· 2377d
Notifications not working as intended. Too slow and showing up way to late. Marking them as read takes 20 seconds ...
@daniella619(65)· 2377d
This is a welcomed development
@cristo(60)· 2377d
Thanks for the updates, until someone arrived who put the whole team to work quickly. In less than a week and we already have active communities, keep working.
@bryan-imhoff(69)· 2377d
Very enthused and excited to be playing with communities. I’ve had a blast since last night and my mind races with possibilities!

2 things... The bug on mobile wherein no distinct link to the “friends” feed exists needs fixed ASAP! I’ve seen this causing confusion for a number of people.

And... does the Steemit team have an eye on the cross posting feature implemented by @steempeak and is there the possibility of it becoming a part of Condenser if it performs well?
@steemitadventure(66)· 2377d
It’s been interesting to try this feature out, seems like something I may enjoy.
@zaibkang(67)· 2377d
Congratulations to all steemit users and steemit developers now we have better steemit platform I think everyone should encourage and appreciate steemit developers efforts to create a more efficient steemit.com website Its really nice to see new communities feature on steemit.com and now steemit looks more developed and improved platform after today's updates nice work keep it up
@robinron(60)· 2377d
Awesome! Great job, everyone. Can’t wait to see where this leads us!
@jaraumoses(69)· 2377d
So Justin Sun is this powerful, less than a week and boom communities are here.
@nehomar(65)· 2377d
Good to know this is still going, after the "assassination" of STEEM price. I still love the project, very good ideas with potential future.
@monsterjamgold(68)· 2377d
Its a nice first try but something just seems a little off but i can place it but i do like the notifications tab and what happened to the HOT sorting.
@fitzgibbon(61)· 2377d
Justin was 4 minutes inb4 :) Love how he's got hype and marketing down.

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1230522546090463232
@quochuy(78)· 2377d
Great to see Communities out there after this long time.

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@inertia(75)· 2377d
Some API docs for communities:

https://developers.steem.io/apidefinitions/#apidefinitions-bridge https://developers.steem.io/apidefinitions/#apidefinitions-broadcast-ops-communities
@dhimmel(66)· 2377d
Are there any frontends we can use currently to interact with communities? How should I start?

Transforming Social Media

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