The Weekly Top of Utopian showcases Staff Picks from contributions made in the past week, hand-selected by our Community Managers from across all Utopian.io categories.

This week, we have some fascinating analysis of the potential impact of HF20 on curation rewards on Steem, a fantastic tutorial on the steemr library, a sneaky bug in busy.org and more. As always, we're grateful to our wonderful contributors and welcome you to take inspiration in their stellar work.

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Staff Picks

Analysis by author SP on impact of proposed changes to curation reward under HF20 by Hive account@carlgnash [analysis]

An original and very well written analysis based on the proposed adjustments to curation rewards in HardFork 20. The analysis concludes that voting behaviour will change due to the dis-incentivising of the 0 minute self-vote, and that the smaller accounts will be the biggest winners from the proposed changes.

Total payout: 218.31 STU
Number of votes: 116

[Tutorial for steemr] Retrieving and Analyzing the delegation Data by Hive account@dapeng [tutorials]

A well-written and interesting tutorial about visualizing delegation data using the steemr library. The author makes different uses and plots various approaches related to delegation data. This could definitely help any user to better understand delegation info and history through visual representation of the data.

Total payout: 79.78 STU
Number of votes: 124

[KnackSteem API] - More security and features by Hive account@jaysermendez [development]

Another high quality contribution by Hive account@jaysermendez who has been working tirelessly for the past few weeks on KnackSteem (a project by our very own Hive account@knowledges). In this contribution he added some security features to the project, which is always great to see!

Total payout: 203.17 STU
Number of votes: 141

Inclusion of Format/style of resume and option to select background, Direct Upload to social media channels, Upload and take picture, Magnifier tool and Font size as well as Interview recorder on Resume Builder by Hive account@tykee [ideas]

In this contibution, Hive account@tykee suggested some major enhancements to the Resume Builder application. He described 5 very interesting ideas which, if implemented, will give the end user more advanced options for creating a resume.

Total payout: 56.63 STU
Number of votes: 15

Logo proposal to Anole Chrome Extension [Task Request] by Hive account@ggabogarcia [graphics]

The solver of a logo task request, this contribution by Hive account@ggabogarcia showcases a compact symbol design using circles. He invested a lot of time in providing different variations, colors, typography and construction. Its very nice to see users starting from pen and pencil before moving onto digitizing the idea. That is the way great logos are made.

Total payout: 136.56 STU
Number of votes: 157

Building Node Chart with using Vue.js D3-Network and Materialize CSS by Hive account@sargoon [video-tutorials]

A very thorough tutorial from Hive account@sargoon that iswell organized and backed up with very good text and images to assist learners. Hive account@sargoon has been around the community for quite a while now and we look forward to many excellent video tutorials from him.

Total payout: 128.28 STU
Number of votes: 32

busy.org 2.5.0 - Effective SP not shown doing a Power Down by Hive account@josephace135 [bug-hunting]

Hive account@josephace135 found that during a Power Down, instead of effective SP, total SP was shown as Your Balance in busy.org. He reported this to the busy.org team, and they were quick to solve it and add it to their completed milestones.

Total payout: 23.48 STU
Number of votes: 20

[Documentation] Explanation on Add to Homescreen on FreeCodeCamp Repository by Hive account@superoo7 [documentation]

This is a great contribution received in one of the biggest open source organisations FreeCodeCamp (FCC). It took 7 months to get a PR merged but it's certainly a gem among the contributions.

Total payout: 112.69 STU
Number of votes: 235

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Utopian.io Post Statistics

The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.

Overall, the last week saw a total of 203 posts, with 136 of them rewarded through an upvote by Hive account@utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 8679.89 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 308.859 STU, with a total of 989 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was DBlog.io - Decentralized Blogging Platform - Backend improvement, with no less than 21 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 63.82 STU.

Category Statistics

Category	Reviewed	Rewarded	Total rewards	Top contributor
documentation	4	2	114.11 STU	Hive account@feekayo
bug-hunting	22	13	176.58 STU	Hive account@mightypanda
translations	29	26	1732.08 STU	Hive account@susanli3769
development	49	33	3146.64 STU	Hive account@dapeng
analysis	6	6	378.30 STU	Hive account@superoo7
graphics	46	30	1917.56 STU	Hive account@dee-y
video-tutorials	4	2	139.17 STU	Hive account@sargoon
tutorials	22	13	914.90 STU	Hive account@steempytutorials
ideas	13	8	112.39 STU	Hive account@melaffection
blog	5	2	33.90 STU	Hive account@mactro