GM distrikters, we are back again with another product release! ☕
This product release is focused on opening up the web application for public discoverability and improving user experience. We will follow up shortly with a mobile app update that will significantly improve performance.
Lets get started and break down what this updates holds!
What’s New!?
- Open platform: no login access to view content
- Filters added to the Stream — Explore your niche
- Trending hashtags — See what the community is talking about
- Improved to Link Previews
- Improved ranking of popular users and featured posts in the Stream feed
distrikt is now open for view 👀
Gone are the days when you had to login in order to see content posted on distrikt. The content you post on distrikt is finally open for view!
You can now share the link to your distrikt post or profile on other platforms. The link preview will show the applicable image (if present) and a snippet of your content rather than the default distrikt information.
The first thing you’ll see if you are visiting distrikt.app directly without being signed up and logged in is the Stream feed.
Guests can scroll the Stream as much as they wish, read posts, comments, browse threads, and check out a user’s profiles/ activity and experiences. They can scroll and view content, but if they want to engage with a post or an account they will need to log in/sign up.
All filters and trending #hashtags will also be usable for guests so that you can really get a good impression of what’s happening on distrikt.
Filters on Stream will help you find relevant content quicker 🔍
Check out the new and improved Stream feed and you will see some interesting new additions, meant to help you discover relevant content more easily.
Filters will help you nagivate the Stream of consciousness that is distrikt’s discovery feed.
The Stream can be thought of as a real-time feed of users posting on distrikt. distrikt doesn’t implement additional algorithms to its feed or platform for displaying user posts. All the posts are displayed to users in a reverse-chronological order. So these filters come in handy for tuning down the noise and narrowing down your explorations.
Good to note: Apart from the Stream section, users only see the posts of people they follow or the content they look up via search.
Trending Hashtags will show where the community focus lies #️
Stay up to date with the relevant and trending discussions on distrikt with the trending #hashtag feature. Make sure to use a relevant hashtag when posting to participate in this discovery feature.
Good to note: The trending tags refresh weekly just like the “trending” section of Stream. We have made these improvements so that users can easily discover what the talk of the town is, in any particular week, and discover the most popular and engaging content on distrikt.
Link Previews get more inclusive ✔️
Link previews had a rocky start but we’ve improved them in this release. Make sure to make the best of this feature and share third party hosted content with your distikt audience!
We have also made significant upgrades to popular users and featured posts section of the Stream. We expect that this would help highlight valuable content creators better, but keep in mind that this is still an exerimental feature and we’re looking for ways to improve it.
View profile photo and cover photo 🧐
After gathering your feedback on this, we have made profile photos and cover photos viewable. Simply click on them and they will open up for you as a any other image would.
That’s it for this release, and as we wrap this up we are excited to start implement distrikt tipping systems which will make it’s debut with a ckBTC integration!
Come and say “hi” to us on-chain at distrikt.app !
About distrikt
distrikt is a decentralized social network built 100% on the Internet Computer Protocol blockchain.
distrikt is fully self-funded and supported by the Open Internet Foundation.
distrikt users will not be the product and will not pay with their data to use the platform. Instead, distrikt users will own their data and identity and have a say regarding the governance of the platform and its future development.
distrikt is to become a strong user-centric alternative to the status quo and it will become a fully decentralized and user-owned social media network soon. Each iteration of distrikt will lead us closer to this goal!
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