SteemSTEM.io v0.2 update

With this new alt-account, I am aiming to share more about the various tools I am developing and coding for helping my life, as well as SteemSTEM’s life, on the Steem blockchain. With this first post, I quickly review the new features of the version 0.2 of steemstem.io.

The code is available from the SteemSTEM GitHub repository.

INTRODUCTION

steemstem.io is the app developed within the Hive account@steemstem project aiming to make Steem a better place for all STEM (Science, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics) fields. After the future developments to be expected later this semester, we aim to use it to showcase SteemSTEM to universities, research institutes and top-notch scientists to convince them to use Steem, via SteemSTEM, as an innovative scientific communication medium.

On steemstem.io, the Steem blockchain is filtered so that only posts that both carry the #steemstem tag and are approved by the SteemSTEM curation team are displayed, in a chronological order. Whilst the “SteemSTEM approved” filter is the default behavior, it can be easily removed by checking a ‘show all posts’ box.

By default, the display is restricted to posts written in English, but the user can change to any of the languages supported by SteemSTEM by a simple click on a flag. Morover, extra filters on specific subcategories (math, physics, psychology, etc.) can be added.

In addition, whitelisted authors get extra exposure on the right column of the main page.

Our app finally also allows to live a normal Steem life by logging in, voting, posting, commenting, managing a Steem wallet, etc., as could be done on any other Steem UI.

FEATURES OF V0.2

We can classify the changes between v0.1 and v0.2 in three categories.

1. Bug fixes related to post display.

Many user comments were previously appearing as full posts.
The filtering mechanism to only show posts upvoted by Hive account@steemstem was not properly functioning, resulting in missing posts on the main page.

2. Post creation was not working.

Posts can now be published with the app.
The layout of the 'create post' page has been modified to improve user-friendliness.
The management of post drafts has been improved, and multiple drafts can now be saved.

3. Minor features.

A series of backend bugs have been fixed.
The code has been made cleaner, the in several places.
Error messages printed to the console are clearer.
The sign-in button is not anymore outside the page.

The corresponding commits are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

For more information about the SteemSTEM project, feel free to follow Hive account@steemstem, have a look to the last news from the project or read our latest distilled.

Please also consider to support the project by voting for the SteemSTEM Witness (@stem.witness) or delegating to Hive account@steemstem for a ROI of 65% of our curation rewards (quick delegation links: 50SP | 100SP | 500SP | 1000SP | 5000SP | 10000SP).