Project Blank Dev Update | New Features Added to Open Alpha for Hive's Everything App
Wow! In my opinion, this has been the best launch that LeoFinance has ever had. We are only 6 days in to Project Blank's Open Alpha - https://alpha.leofinance.io - being live and it has been truly incredible.
The launch has been super smooth. We've had essentially 0 down time and only about a dozen major bugs reported. We've already knocked out about 8/12 of those bugs and the newest build of the Alpha is now online.
Along with knocking out these bugs, we also released a few new features and made a lot of progress on the backend infrastructure which is going to lead into the features that are going live this week for all of you to test.
Features We Added
The newest features on Alpha are the updated Post button, the Account Switcher, Logout Button and some performance enhancements.
The Post button is just a quick visual thing we've been working on but will tie into a new feature we launch that will let you click that button and select from Post / Thread.
It's an ease of use thing. Soon™️ it will make it easier to fire off a quick thread or head to the publishing page.
The Account Switcher is something I'm really excited about. Having to manage multiple accounts can be a real pain. Other Hive UIs added account switchers that work fairly well but we went for a bit of a different implementation.
In my opinion, this is the easiest way to flip flop between accounts quickly and seamlessly.
It's also one of the most requested features from the old UI.
you can also see the logout button which wasn't live with the Open Alpha release but was added about a day after.
Along with these few features, we also added some performance enhancements. You guys have been crushing it on creating new threads and that means that we've had our work cut out for us in terms of scaling.
I see that one of the top positive feedback points we've been getting is amazement over how fast Threads are... Some of you have even said it's faster than Twitter!
Bugs We Fixed
We fixed a number of bugs. A few others are reported and we're currently working on a new build to fix them:
- The site identity logo wasn't showing (it showed the blank globe). That's been fixed
- Firefox users have been having some trouble voting, we've fixed some of these problems though a few people said it's still not working. We're currently diagnosing it and testing our own firefox instances
- Alpha UI links don't show previews on LeoFinance Threads or elsewhere - believe it or not, this is a LeoInfra issue. It has to do with the URL structure. We're working on a fix but it requires a big backend update to the way we index content. This will also make the links uniform with other Hive UIs (so you don't have to delete the /posts/view part in the URL). Hoping to have this live within the week
- Some updates to the Publishing page were made to fix buttons getting cut off, etc.
- Sometimes when posting a thread, it shows "6 hours ago" even though you just posted it, this has been fixed
- Sometimes comments don't go through on brave browser, we've fixed this
- Some users have reported not being able to reply through the notifications page, we've fixed this
- Explore page crashed and kicked an application error back to users, we quickly found and fixed the issue
- "Posted Using LeoFinance Alpha" wasn't written properly. We fixed this
Next Up on Open Alpha
As promised, we'll be releasing new features for everyone to test as we continue to gain feedback and fix bugs. You can see that we've fixed the majority of bugs that have been reported. A few are outstanding and require some infra updates so it will take a bit more time to get them ironed out.
Your feedback is so incredibly important! If you want the new features, make sure to send your feedback in through bug report tickets on discord! This helps us fix old bugs and move on to new features quicker.
The next major features we're rolling out are:
- Bookmarks - bookmark a post and be able to read it later (you can already see the menu item. That link will be enabled soon ™️
- Shortcuts - a Shortcut menu will appear in the bottom left (underneath the main menu).. you'll be able to add authors and pages / feeds to this Shortcuts menu. Imagine that you love @taskmaster4450's posts... You'll be able to simply add that to your shortcuts menu and be able to visit his profile page with the click of a button
- Polls - Ooo bet you didn't see that one coming. Decentralized voting on polls through Threads is going to be enabled. We think this is going to lead to some MASSIVE engagement on Threads. This is one of my favorite features that we're rolling out
... next? You'll have to give that feedback to see ;)
So far the new UI is crushing it. We've seen Threads activity literally 5x since the start of 2023. We've also seen a lot of new users come in to both the UI and to being LEO stakeholders.
@leogrowth posted recently about how successful our recent LPUD was. Things are shaping up both for the LEO token and for the new UI. I can't even explain how excited the team is. We're hitting a stride!
About LeoFinance
LeoFinance is a blockchain-based Web3 community that builds innovative applications on the Hive, BSC, ETH and Polygon blockchains. Our flagship application: LeoFinance.io allows users and creators to engage & share micro and long-form content on the blockchain while earning cryptocurrency rewards.
Our mission is to democratize financial knowledge and access with Web3.
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#polls is a great addition.
Let's get them live and being used.
1,000 polls per day at a minimum.
1,000 polls per day with an average of 100 votes per day
Shall we run the math on what kind of TX activity that adds to the Hive blockchain?
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I'd love to create polls on Leo
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Great usecaase to be added to #threads and we hope it'll be massively utilized.
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:-) 1k polls per day - it's gonna make someone's head spin
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Hivesigner soon?
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Yes, forgot to mention - a big part of the leoinfra updates is adding all of the login methods including hive signer, hiveauth, Twitter sign in, Facebook sign in, google sign in, etc
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Hopefully.
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Really interesting. Massive development we see here. The pace of update has been so swift. LeoThreads taking over Twitter soon.
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thank you, Khal!!
I still cannot upvote (using FF)
We love the new UI!
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Great Stuff! Keep tagging along!
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Ya doing great job @leofinance and @khaleelkazi also consider leo finance beta app am facing a big time problem with the app i hardly gain access to it.
I see something like this:
I want to ask about this on the discord server but i saw that some one else's asked the same few days ago.
Pls help,, i wanna test leofinance beta app too
Ok that's good
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It keeps on rolling and rolling, here we wait to see the complete alpha.. we are enjoying it already
Ok
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Cool developments and features in the pipeline, can barely wait to see them at work. Shortcuts will surely make things more familiar, while polls will surely bring a new kind of users as that's not available anywhere else on the Hive blockchain.
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Would it make sense to have some type of news or feature update to the UI itself so people can quickly see what has been added, updated or changes. Version 0.1 which would go to a blog post that goes into details.
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Poll is a great addition!!!
I remember when acidyo made a post about the blockchain games people would love to collaborate with POSH & Ocd for contests, the Engagement on that post alone was crazyyyyyy!
Different gaming platforms on Hive invited their communities to vote for the game on the poll...
Such kind of polls can do some wonders on Threads also 😁
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Definitely there with you! This will add engagement to an already great #ProjectBlank start.
Keep'em coming! Once the app is ready, let's spend some $ on Marketing! We can scale this!
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I love the shortcut and bookmark features and I cannot wait to see being rolled out. Also, I still would create a ticket for this. There should be a way to edit or delete our threads if ever there is a mistake and that could save us a lot.
Keep doing the great work. Thank you.
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https://leofinance.io/threads/@adambarratt/re-leothreads-qtcna87t
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people ( @adambarratt ) sharing the post on LeoThreads.
Definitely saw that one coming! It was inevitable. It's a basic Twitter features. @khaleelkazi is a smart guy who cares about growth and features. I have some of the best engagement rates on https://dpoll.io (with comments). It was inevitable for #ProjectBlank to have #polls
Thanks for the update! I most certainly will love the polls feature and will likely use it quite regularly! Shortcuts seem like a very convenient way to use #threads too.
On the bug fixes, yep, I'm one of those using Firefox who can't vote. If it matters, it's the Linux version of Firefox.
EDIT: One thing I wanted to ask: Wen draft saving for Leo Alpha? :)
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Threads is super. Great job to all involved. So happy to see the content diversify and become less crypto-centric. One thing I would love to see is an Edit button. To have one before Twitter gets around to it will show how powerful and user-friendly this really is.
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sadly I cannot access threads at all :/
https://alpha.leofinance.io/threads
loads and very shortly shows he ui and content but instantly flashes away to:
turned all script blockers etc off, tried all different browser
everywhere the same :/