Update: Developers Needed

It's been over 4 years since our last post, and while there are tons of excuses for our lack of posting I'm sure everyone would love to hear, you'll just have to wait another 4 years. The service has been running smoothly this entire time, but let's just say there have been some roadblocks in publishing anything concrete. Now the time has come for @freezepeach to move to next level, to actually make a difference.

Help Wanted

Like the title says, we need developers. Specifically python developers with experience granting and using hivesigner posting authority as well as Discord bots and DBs. Rudimentary web page design may be needed as well, since that may be needed to securely pass auth tokens to the back end.

The Plan

If you want to help and the above applies to you, there's a few things that we have and several things that need to be changed. Right now the @freezepeach Discord bot will take a link, calculate rshares of downvotes, and then try to match that exactly with an upvote, or vote 100% and reblog if it can't match. It can also go one by one through an entire profile and counter every post within the payout period. There's also a few sanity checks built in, such as checking if it's already been voted, if no downvotes have been cast, or if the post is past payout. All and all it's been a pretty good bot so far, but there have been some limitations with the way this is set up that have essentially made this service toothless, namely the lack of voting power.

As it is right now, the only way to help this project is to delegate HP. But we can't ask for delegation, because most of the time it goes to waste, and there's not any curation rewards to speak of to give even a small payout to the people supporting the project. Others wanted to follow in a voting trail, but our goal is to neutralize downvotes, and a trail could end up rewarding downvotes, which could cause a lot of problems in the flag review process with people seeking a payout.

The answer to this is posting authority. Individuals can lend their posting auth to us, and we rotate through an entire list of users while voting a post until either the downvote is nullified, or we exhaust the list. This way delegations don't go to waste, posts aren't over rewarded with trails, and we can comfortably ask for support with the project.

The Rub

This project has been operating for over 4 years, but can't be monetized. We could post automated reports or filler updates without substance to generate revenue, but that feels as dirty as the abuse we're trying to fight. The Dev/s that decide to help on this won't be compensated very much if at all, since there's nothing in the bank. The person we are looking for is someone who believes in this project, believes in the good it will do for Hive, and can create a reliable open source bot that lasts for another 4 years, or until base layer rewards are removed for blogging.

If this interests you, contact r0nd0n#5176 on Discord, or leave a comment here.