🚀 https://photofeed.club 📸

What Is The Project

#PhotoFeed is a project spear-headed by Hive account@jrue, Hive account@aweber, Hive account@yumyumseth and Hive account@cryptoctopus that aims to improve the experience of those who want to see beautiful professional photography on steemit.com. I’ve been working on Photofeed.club as a way to improve the experience of the growing #photofeed Community. #photofeed has 4,353 posts in its first month! Steemit/Busy are not the best place for discovery and showcasing as their primary purpose needs to fit many types of ‘blog’. With a custom platform, we can tailor the needs of the interface to photography.

Technology Stack

The initial version is kept minimal as a static HTML/CSS/JS site pulling data directly from the Steem-js powered database API and making use of Finallycomments for login/vote and comment functionality.

Current Development

The initial version aims to create a better viewing experience and present the idea of a separate platform for photofeed. [https://photofeed.club] is live and ready to test today!

• Pull data from the Steem database API
• Trending + Latest feeds in a masonry grid that's far better for viewing photos than Steemit or busy.org
• Infinite Scroll
• Individual Post Data in overlay (many of #photofeed submissions are far more than just one photo)
• Voting + Commenting integration with Finallycomments 🙌

Load individual posts when a photo catches your attention.

Reply & upvote directly from photofeed.club

Challenges

Working with content from multiple platforms was far more difficult than I expected it to be. People submit to the #photofeed hashtag from Steemit.com/Busy.org/alpha.steepshot.io/esteem/steepshot android/get scouted. Each treats the markdown/HTML they create for the post.body slightly differently, making reconstructing the HTML tricky.

Development Roadmap

With an average of over 150 submissions per day to the #photofeed hashtag, I can see this community growing stronger into the future and there are many ways a specific platform for #photofeed could be useful. Ideas for the next stages.

• Host the photo feed blog as the main page on photofeed.club
• Submit content directly from photofeedclub
• Photographer highlights & features
• FAQ for visitors non-familiar with the Steem
• Maintain own database for better speed & stability
• Friendly SAP framework, suggestions?
• Filters, ranking, there are far more possibilities because this is our own system

Big shout out to Hive account@jrue, Hive account@aweber, Hive account@yumyumseth and Hive account@cryptoctopus for running Hive account@photofeed and bringing photographer son steemit together.

Want To Get Involved?

It would be great to hear what the community & project leaders think of the idea?

suggestions, ideas, questions, and pull requests all welcome.

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