What a big week on Steem! Not only did something happen with Justin Sun & Steemit, but BOTH Steemit and Steempeak released their new and improved front ends today! If you're a mad keen Steem freak like me, you would have been flipping excitedly between both sites and feeling unsure of which one to use! There's a few things we absolutely HAVE to let the community know, so here goes!

However, we're HUGE advocates for the Steempeak front end, and there's a LOT of bells and whistles with the new release, including communities. There's a few things you NEED to know that might confuse you otherwise. Over the coming weeks, things might change a little, so we'll try to keep you posted - if you aren't sure, pop into Discord and ask.

Communities

Thanks to Hive account@amygoodrich for highlighting the need for some clarification about blogs, communities and posting on www.naturalmedicine.io.

First of all, it's important to realise that the community and your blog are two separate places.

If you're posting on www.naturalmedicine.io, an AUTOMATIC community tag is provided, meaning that your post goes STRAIGHT to community.

If you want it to appear on your blog, you simply RESTEEM YOUR OWN POST.

Why? Because you might not want anyone BUT the community to read your post. All members of the community will see it - and we have lots of them - and they'll still upvote you of course - but if you want the WHOLE of steem to see it, simply resteem it.

This goes for any time you post in any community on Steempeak or Steemit too.

Witness and Steemit developer Hive account@quochuy suggests that Steemit might give an option to resteem WHEN you post to the community, so keep an eye on this too. Steempeak are also considering the same thing.
We can expect a few unexpected things going on as things shift and change and we get the front ends we've always wanted, whether you favour Steemit or Steempeak.

Badges

Steempeak have this cool little feature where you'll see a badge on your profile. It'll look a bit like this:

As you can see, I have the 'Steempeak Tester' badge and the Natural Medicine badge. Pretty soon, they'll be like Pokemon - gotta catch 'em all!

Hive account@canadian-coconut and Hive account@plantstoplanks both were some of the first to recieve badges yesterday!

For now, we're giving badges to people who delegate 200 SP and over, OR are pretty active members of the community who write a lot of #naturalmedicine posts or work for us in some capacity. It'll take me a while to get through everyone, so please help me out by SUBSCRIBING TO THE COMMUNITY ON STEEMPEAK.

Thanks to Hive account@jarvie from Steempeak for helping me get the badge function sorted last night super easily.

Viewing Badge Recipients

You can easily see who has the badge and what they are posting by clicking here. So far, I've managed to add 11 - be patient while I add you, and if I've missed you after a week or so, shoot me a DM.

There is also a badge page for the badge! Whoa! Click here.

How to Subscribe

1. On the top bar of Steempeak (the new and improved) click on COMMUNITIES.
2. On your PC, click 'Control + F' and search for 'Natural Medicine'
3. Click 'Subscribe'
4. Then you're in! Woo hoo! And if you're a delegator, you'll get a groovy badge.
5. You can also click this link here: https://steempeak.com/c/hive-120078/created - you might even like to comment on some of the fab posts this week!

Massive thanks to witness Hive account@quochuy who keeps us updated, and has done great things on the Steemit front end to improve the user experience for all. Please ensure you've voted for him as witness, which is easy to do here: https://steempeak.com/@quochuy

And whilst you are reviewing your witnesses, please also approve Steempeak here: https://steempeak.com/@steempeak

A Big Thank you to Our Delegators for Your Ongoing Support

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