The Blurt blockchain has seen many changes since its creation. Change is important because it allows the blockchains to adapt to current technologies and challenges, in addition to reflecting the needs of its community via a clear and transparent consensus-based system.
We have noticed that there appears to be an increasing need and requests from the Blurt ecosystem to implement a community-based platform similar to what can be seen on other platforms such as Reddit or other similar blockchains.
Thanks to Nexus, which is a consensus interpretation layer for the Blurt blockchain, that in addition to making Communities possible, is also going to offload a lot of pressure from API (rpc) nodes.
Communities ELI5'ed
To put it in layman's terms, "Communities" is a feature that will add more value to the Blurt blockchain; imagine Reddit but on a blockchain. Users will be able to create subject-specific communities, such as a community for food, fashion, travel, learning, crypto, or anything else.
Users who create a community will have far more control over it, such as the ability to police its content and control who can post in it, or not. In its broader sense, Communities also open an optimistic prospect for the future, since more features can be added to it over time. For example, a possibility for people to monetize their communities is an idea that is not too far-fetched.
What exactly will be added?
• First. Communities will be added onto the official front-end of the Blurt blockchain (deployed here), which is the UI stack that is commonly referred to as Condenser. This will be fully open source so any other frontend operators can upgrade theirs as well.
• Second. Users will be able to create communities directly from the official Blurt wallet. Why the wallet? Because creating a community requires the creation of a new account, meaning that the active key will be needed; so the best path is to keep all active related operations in the wallet for good measure.
• Third. To cope with several regulatory environments and user requests, a new feature will be added to the wallet as well that will allow users to unpublish their profile.
While the data stored in the blockchain is immutable and cannot be altered, the information, however, will not be shown on front-ends who are willing to include this feature. The changes here will be mostly done at the UI level, which will be linked in the process as soon as the backend is ready. Quite simply, users will be able to unpublish their blog account from frontends that are served by Nexus, but all data will still exist on block explorers.
Who is going to work on the project?
The @symbionts team will take the responsibility of implementing Communities, in addition to the above-mentioned changes. The @symbionts team will report progress to the Blurt Core team on Discord and onchain to the community via their Blurt blog.
A live version of the condenser and wallet will be provided for testing to the community to make sure that the changes are as expected and conform to the norms of usability and convenience. Feedback is encouraged since the goal at the end is to operate within the principles of transparency and accountability
Budget & Development Time
Development time is expected to take from 40 (forty) to 60 (sixty) days. Live version for testing included.
Milestones have been set as per the following schedule and budget.
Advance: 1500 USD in stablecoin
Milestone 1: 500K Powered up BLURT (Four week vested BLURT) once the project is live and working as intended
Final delivery: 2000 USD in stablecoin upon final handover of all deliverables.
(Note: Where "stablecoin" is specified, USDT on the Ethereum network will be paid, or other substitute stablecoin as mutually agreed at the time)
The vested BLURT will come from the @socialgraph treasury, and the stablecoin will be from its non-blurt reserves, no BLURT will be liquidated to meet this expenditure.
The @symbionts team is to reply in comment with the acceptance of the above deliverables and terms; as well as to supply their native non-custodial Ethereum EVM wallet address where they wish to be paid via private memo to the @blurtofficial account.
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We thank the @symbionts team for their willingness to support development on Blurt, in addition to the Ecosythesizer block explorer and Joinblurt onboarding tools they already supply and look forward to future fruitful collaborations.
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Hi, this has been done thank you https://ecosynthesizer.com/blurt/trx/e10ec65a383f23f5d68784166ee5abb2f6a802cc
@danish578
"Communities is a feature that will add more value to the Blurt blockchain; imagine Reddit but on a blockchain. Users will be able to create subject-specific communities"
Can you please explain, for someone who has never been to Reddit, what communities is, and how it differs from the tag system, which is already subject-specific?
Hi, @drutter,
Usually, it is always advised to keep things simple and not complicated. For example, Communities is an update that will provide something similar to subreddits on Reddit or groups/page on Facebook. This is an easier and faster way to convey the idea to users.
There are many technical differences between tags and communities. But the one that should interest most users is ownership. Tags are universal, but communities are ownership-based and convey their owners various executives power over the management of their communities.
In general, the technical aspect of communities was heavily discussed among developers and witnesses on Discord. Developers willing to learn more about the technical aspect of communities and Nexus are invited to either directly visit the official GitLab repository of the Blurt blockchain or directly join developers on the official Discord.
Since we will be working on the project, we will make sure to post an update once the live version is ready and provide users with further information to facilitate their role in the open testing phase.
Thank you for sharing your ideas,
Hi,
We hereby accept to work according to the above-mentioned terms.
We thank the Blurt community for this opportunity and entrusting us.
Thank you,
We confirm that the first advance tranche of $1500 has now been paid, let's give you a few days to get organised and start the clock on 1st November 2023.
Awesome news indeed! 🙏🍀❤️Thanks to the @symbionts for taking on this big challenge! I can imagine, that this is a lot of work!!!
While we are at it: A new Blurt logo would be nice too..? 😜😍
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I think it's a great idea to monetize the communities I see it as a payment for each subscriber or you must be subscribed to be able to publish here, I do not know how I see it from my point of view.
I'm not so convinced that implementing this feature is the right thing to do. In Hive and Steemit, for example, it has given rise to censoring power on the part of the administrators of certain communities that has caused users to publish part of their content on the general blog adding the reference hastags.
Apart from what happens in HIVE, each community has different rules. What is accepted in one is prohibited in the other.
The trend in something always marks a level of preference, but it is not always the right thing.
On the other hand, the proliferation of Communities if they give each one absolute power leads to an excessive number of them. There are many users who create a community not to improve the platform but simply to make money. And that's not right
Hi, @argenvista,
The regulation is in question concerns the right to privacy. Meaning, if a user wants to hide his account on a platform, he should have the right to do so. The user alone will have the power to hide his account. No one else can hide him. So rest assured that no one else can use this feature to hide other users because it requires the active key of the account in question.
As for communities, we hope that stakeholders will be wise enough to favour communities that aim to grow Blurt instead of communities that only aim to extract value from the blockchain.
Thank you for sharing your concerns with us,
Thanks to you for the clarification.
I am also working on integrating communities on pwa front-end.
Exciting developments. Implementing communities will enhance Blurt functionality.
Congratulation
A lot has really been done by the developers. Trust the community will witness greater improvement in the days to come. Well done for the great commitment.
I am interested in this unpublish profile feature. Can we get more information on the use cases?
The unpublish feature simply allows a user to make their account disappear from the front-ends that support this feature, it would be similar to closing your social account on Facebook, this can be useful for a number of scenarios, in cases where a user was victimized and doesn't want their content and interactions visible anymore.
Also, the Apple app store requires the ability for users to terminate their accounts on the app otherwise the app won't pass their publishing criteria, this way any app building on Blurt can use this feature and hopefully be approved by Apple.
It is important to note that under the hood the data is still immutable and will show on non-participating front-ends and on the block explorer.
Thank you. That fits in with my expectation of the functionality.
I think this is a very good feature giving users that choice should they wish to exercise it whilst maintaining the record on the Blockchain and therefore it's immutability.
Great work!
This is indeed a needed feature if we want to go to AppStore.
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Well done guys. Very happy to see the wheels in motion.
That's awesome! Thank you!
I can't wait for this project to be completed. Thanks to the Blurt development team and @symbionts for taking on this challenge.
Good luck!!! And God bless you all ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Hopefully the development can run smoothly.
Thank you for your awesome work, we have made the final payment of 2000 USDT to your account, please confirm receipt.
Communities are confirmed to be working well on our staging environment and will be posted to production in the days to follow.
Hi,
We hereby confirm the delivery of the last payment.
Thank you for your trust.
Good news, Thank you so much for all developer's. 🥰