Happy holidays everyone! We are excited to announce that the Open Beta is set to launch on January 30, 2018. The Open Beta launch will represent a revolutionary breakthrough in the future of knowledge sharing. As we begin to establish the knowledge base, pretty soon the Lunyr API will come to fruition, which will allow developers to use the knowledge base as a backbone to create next generation decentralized applications in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and more.
The reward system will be released at the same time as the Open Beta. Writers will begin earning rewards for creating content, which will increase the readership on the Lunyr platform. In the early stages, Lunyr will serve as the go-to resource for reliable, easy-to-read and factual information about current and upcoming crypto projects. Once we grow a solid community of readers, we will aim to expand into other domains of knowledge including but not limited to innovative, bleeding edge topics in Finance, Law, Investment, Science, and Technology.
After the Open Beta, Lunyr articles will begin showing up in search engines globally. This includes Google, Baidu, Bing, and Yahoo. We are currently developing multiple language support (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, etc.) to achieve Lunyr’s goal of becoming a global censorship-resistant, decentralized knowledge base. Improving SEO and search relevance is on the roadmap.
Now that Lunyr will become completely functional, there will be a tremendous increase in marketing and branding for the next several months to drive readers and writers onto the platform.
Recent development goals
Growing Readership
- New categories and featured sections added to the home page to show relevant sorted articles to the community
Improving user experience for writers
- Added writing guidelines and checklist (also increases article quality)
- Improved Profile layout and editing
- Improved editor markup features
Increase adoption of the Lunyr platform
- Integrating Metamask, Trezor and Ledger Wallet
- Reduced gas usage by librarilizing the contracts
Reward System
- Finished first round of testing for redeeming LUN with Contribution Points
Advertising System
- Improved multi-day bidding functionality
Technical
- Integration testing for new contract structures successfully passed
Future development
- Implementing new menu navigation design
- Improving home page so that users always see relevant content
- New Editor features with video support
- Adding article sharing
- Citation Generator
- Peer Review System 2.0 with Sybil Defenses
- Balanced Reward System 2.0
Users interested in joining the Private Alpha can signup here. Invitations are sent weekly.
