#steemworld

SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #12

[EN]

This post is intended to cover the server costs for SteemWorld.org and to enable me to continue my development in the future.

In case you missed the first part: SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #1

[DE]

Dieser Post ist dafür gedacht die Serverkosten für SteemWorld.org zu decken und mir in Zukunft weitere Entwicklungen zu ermöglichen.

Falls du den ersten Teil verpasst haben solltest: SteemWorld ~ Weekly Support ~ #1

Just some thoughts...

I'm still working on the improved Posts Overview and I hope that it will be ready to be used in the coming days. As always, when diving into a new development, there come a lot of new ideas to my mind and there are often a few things showing up which need to be solved in a better way. I am no 'never touch a running system' guy and do my best to restructure and optimize my code on a regular basis.

Such actions can take days without having any relevant, measurable changes for the users, but it's very important for developers to regularly take a look at the whole source, because not doing so can take away the motivation for wanting to care about the product in future. Since I'm the only one who is working on the code, I'm very flexible to do so, of course.

Keep in mind that most problems, which have not been taken care of in the past, will come back to you and may hit you hard at some point in future.

Auto-votes for old posts?

I receive many votes when I edit old (already paid out) posts, so there seems to be an auto-voting service active that does not check the posts payout date. Even more strange is the fact that I get votes from people who already voted on these posts before. I don't know which service you are using, but please do inform the developer about this. Thanks!

Updates

Posts now in tabs separated by status

Searching/Filtering posts

You can choose to search for text in the posts title, body or both:

The drop-down box in the right contains all of your recently used tags for being able to easily add them to the current search criteria:

You can also search in a given date range:

Instead of having to scroll down the whole feed it is now possible to set the limit to 100 posts with one click:

Currently only the last 100 posts

As long as my new web service is under development and the posts are still being loaded from the Steem RPC nodes, there is a limit of 100 posts for each tab. So keep in mind, when you use the search tab, it will currently only search within the last 100 posts. Blockchains are great for storing data permanently, but loading the data and executing complex queries isn't possible without building a separate database or node API, that has been optimized exactly for the required tasks.

Filter for 'Custom JSON' operations

A few people contacted me lately, because they are playing Steem Monsters a lot and their Account Operations overview is filled with many 'Custom JSON' ops, which makes it nearly impossible to have a good overview of all the other operations, therefore I added a new op filter:

Warnings for special account events

We now get informed when a Powerdown has been started for our account. Thanks to @double-u for the idea ;)

In the making

Web service for loading the data in a more efficient way
Different views in the Posts Overview
Improved Coming Curation Rewards overview
RC costs calculation

In my last post I mentioned:

Since the RPC nodes do no longer synchronize/return the account history and main account data in real time, I need to think about building and implementing a better solution. Maybe I can parse and store all blockchain data on one of my servers without having to rely on public node requests from the clients in future. I already do parse all blocks for some features on SteemWorld, but I do not have a solution for the account history yet. Would be great to store also the virtual operations, because that would enable me to have kind of a public node for my services without having to fulfil the huge hardware requirements for running a full steemd instance.

I will take a look at Steemit's SBDS (Steem Blockchain Data Service), because I think it could be capable of exactly what I need. I prefer to work with SQLite as it is really fast on SSD and requires no additional database service working in background. As I stated before, in my opinion it would be possible to deploy kind of an own Full-API Service on a 16 GB RAM machine with enough SSD memory available. That would be much cheaper than running steemd and is the only solution I can think of given my current monthly earnings.

I've decided to build my own solution (web service) to be more flexible now and in future. This will take a few weeks at least, but it will enable me to bring SteemWorld to the next level.

Coming outage

In the coming days there might happen an outage for some features on SteemWorld, because I need to execute a full re-indexing of the whole blockchain. Especially mentions, incoming delegations, post/vote counters and transfer/delegation search may not work as expected for a few hours. In case you should be experiencing strange things in the coming days -> It's just a temporary outage and I will do my best to bring the services back as soon as possible.

Thanks to @isarmoewe for reporting the bug regarding the incorrect counters for new accounts ;)

Links

EN | What is SteemWorld? -> Welcome to SteemWorld.org!

DE | Was ist SteemWorld? -> Willkommen auf SteemWorld.org!

Thank you for supporting my work!

Positive thoughts create a positive world. It all begins with connecting our thoughts with emotions. What we focus on is what becomes powerful. We are the creators of our world.

Much Love,

Comments · 100

@bashadow(70)· 2915d
It seems that there is an error I get the following:

This site can’t be reached steemworld.org’s server IP address could not be found. Try:

Checking the connection Checking the proxy, firewall, and DNS configuration Running Windows Network Diagnostics ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

When trying to load the page, or did I just happen to catch it at upgrade time?
@melooo182(71)· 2915d
Hai @steemchiller great work with the site again! :D I wanted to report a sort of anomaly with https://elegance.blue posts, steemworld seems to take the elegance.blue as an image file and then preview pics do not load as it tries with no avail to get a non existing image first.

Keep up the great work
@cryptorg(61)· 2917d
This is a pretty great tool and I like that it grows each day. One thing that I would propose as a feature - What would you save about 3 decimal places in order to better track the SP/SBD rewards (for example instead of 1.25 SBD to have 1.259 SBD)?...
@steemitboard(66)· 2917d
Congratulations @steemchiller! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You received more than 4000 as payout for your posts. Your next target is to reach a total payout of 5000

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Support SteemitBoard's project! Vote for its witness and get one more award!
@nolasco(63)· 2919d
Thanks for the support!
@vimukthi(76)· 2919d
- Improved Coming Curation Rewards overview
- RC costs calculation
I'd really like to see those two. You should seriously start a witness. I've already voted 30 but I'd unvote one and give you a vote as soon as you get it running. I'm sure there are hundreds who would do the same. You are doing great work without much noise. But I'm sure the community takes note.

Wish You The Best!

PS: You could also try @fundition
@lamamoh(45)· 2920d
Thanks for this great tool
@yoo1900(73)· 2920d
your service is really good , thanks!
@unusualdog(35)· 2921d
Thank you very much for this wonderful tool! I can only imagine all the time and effort you put into this project. But as you can probably see from all these other supportive posts, your hard work does not go unnoticed :)
@curatorcat(73)· 2921d
Thanks again for all your hard work @steemchiller! Your efforts are appreciated and definitely a major part of making my Steemit experience better.

Particularly like that "power down warning," which hopefully might save a person or two along the way from losing everything!
@angelacs(57)· 2921d
Thank you soooo very much for Steemworld and all that you do to continue to improve it for us all, @steemchiller.

I open it up each morning with all my basic daily tabs, right beside Steemit's. ;)
@ana-maria(66)· 2921d
I'm curious, how you manage to edit old expired posts (you mentioned when informing about old auto-votes)???
@jenina619(74)· 2922d
Voted!👍Keep on the great work!😉
@silversaver888(81)· 2922d
Thank you @steechiller for everything that you do for the steemit community!
@banat(41)· 2922d
Hi, just want to ask you, if you can add the beneficiaries rewards? If i receive beneficiaries, i just see "Claim Rewards", nothing else, but, like in SteemPeak, there i can see that is an Benefactor rewards, from who, how much, etc.

Can you please add this option too? If you can a Tab in the "Coming Rewards", to see coming benefactor rewards, and maybe in the Account Operations too. It would be great to see on all this little thumbnail of posts, overall, it is more informative, where is what.

Maybe the thumbnails adding overall, on comments to, it is more informative, and remember, where is was what, if you see pic of posts, like you do it in "Post" group.

Thanks for great job.
@pnc(65)· 2922d
This is a project i believe we need to support to keep it running. Did @steemchiller a witness candidate? I support your work.
@mr-phoenix(64)· 2922d
Good job sir !
@hugo.exe(53)· 2922d
thanks man!
@robin-tr(33)· 2923d
Thanks for Steemworld, I could not use steemit day to day without the page! succes!
@chbartist(84)· 2923d
Thank you @steemchiller - I always give my support to you and you know this because I know you check your wallet. I would like to make it clear that I do this because I appreciate your work and effort wonderful and it helps all of us. Thank you very much, and in my opinion you deserve the support of all the community. Regards
@arthur.grafo(70)· 2923d
Hi I've been having a problem, which I hoped would go away, but it does not.

When I check on Coming Rewards - Author Rewards, it works fine. Then, if I click for it to update hours later, the button greys out, but nothing happens - yet the rest of the page continues to work.

I suspect it may not be a problem from you, but from my side (which means I will need to re-install the Firefox browser). Before I do, thought I'd first double-check with you.

Otherwise, love your work, you've made it so much easier for me to understand a lot of what goes on at Steemit, just by helping me see information I was not aware of.
@jacey.boldart(73)· 2923d
Thank you.
@arcange(79)· 2923d
Congratulations @steemchiller! Your post was mentioned in the Steemit Hit Parade in the following category:
- Comments - Ranked 6 with 93 comments
@firelord(37)· 2923d
Hello @steemchiller, I just want to thank you for that amazing Applikationen you created, I use it everyday to check whats happening around my steemit blog. I also have a feature sugesstion, in my oppinion it would be great to see the max RC possible for an account.
@drakernoise(63)· 2923d
Hi @steemchiller, Thanks for sharing your progress behind the curtains of the site. Two things I think could be improved:
The accounts operations list updating frecuency. I think it's too long
Would be great to sort the witness table by headers. It would be also great to have a search box to find a specific witness name.

Keep on the great job, cheers 😊

Good evening (here) @steemchiller. Nice to get your “latest, greatest” post on what is happening in your world.

”I am no 'never touch a running system' guy and do my best to restructure and optimize my code on a regular basis. “

”Such actions can take days without having any relevant, measurable changes for the users, but it's very important for developers to regularly take a look at the whole source, because not doing so can take away the motivation for wanting to care about the product in future.”

I really appreciate your ”continuous improvement” mindset, as I am the same way. Hopefully, you are encouraged in putting in the extra effort knowing that’s why SteemWorld is so highly rated by your customers!

As part of continuous improvement, I really like the recent changes to the Post section. Very nice upgrades and no thoughts on how to make it any better, at the moment!

”I've decided to build my own solution (web service) to be more flexible now and in future. This will take a few weeks at least, but it will enable me to bring SteemWorld to the next level. “

I like the idea you are building new features with an eye to the long-term functionality of SteemWorld. We all know that is in good hands. If you don’t mind my asking, do you ever have input from other developers on Github? Or any support from any other place to help you make a well-informed decision, after knowing all of the options?

In my own experience, I call them “speed bumps” and while I know I can get over them on my own, as I’ve done many times, I’ve benefited from establishing some “go to” resources, which I can call on, should that be necessary.

”… because I need to execute a full re-indexing of the whole blockchain …“

Ouch, that sounds painful, but thanks for the ‘heads up,’ so we’ll know what is happening and what to expect.

We appreciate all you do for us @steemchiller. Keep up the great work! 👍