You know, a few months ago, I started a little PHP script to display my HIVE posts on a real blog with my theme, links, etc. I called it SuperHive. Now, a new step has been taken!
I am happy to present you the new version of SuperHive which is now a new generation blog engine (like WordPress) that will allow you to have your own blog based on the HIVE Blockchain. Thus, all your posts are stored on Blockchain (with all the advantages, we'll come back to that).
No more need for an oversized and expensive server for a blog, no more need for space to store your images. Also, if your site goes down, you can re-configure a SuperHive elsewhere with the same configuration and find all your posts instantly!
How does it work?
To make it short, SuperHive is based on the HIVE blockchain which allows you to store content and get paid if your content is good. It is also impossible to delete your content (you can edit it but the blockchain will always keep track of all your changes).
Your post, once published on the blockchain will be visible on other sites such as Hive.blog or PeakD and many others. You will have an international reach as soon as your post is published and it can be seen by several communities around the world.
To go into more detail, you should know that a official website for the SuperHive project is currently being built. It will include more details, but especially a documentation to learn how to use the engine.
What's new since the last version?
So many things! But I'll keep it short and list the changes since last time:
- [Feature] Better administration interface
- [Feature] On-chain posts : Creation and edi
- [Feature] Upload images to ImageHoster (decentralized hosting, thanks @MahdiYari)
- [Feature] Off-chain pages (static): Create, Edit and Delete
- [Feature] DevMode : Remove cache and various optimizations (like reducing generated code, ...)
- [Feature] Choice of the number of items displayed
- [Feature] You can comment on posts
- [Fix] Use of MarkedJS for a better support of the display of the posts
- [Fix] Text editor changed to EasyMDE, easier to use
- [Fix] Data folder, containing the blockchain data cache
- [Fix] Added Posts and Admin controllers for better maintenance
- [Fix] Auto-creation of Data, Pages and Comments folders at installation
- [Fix] Change manual requests to php-hive-tools (Thanks @dragosroua)
- [Fix] Hide comments if Hive reputation is < 0
- [Fix] Remove Cron and check blockchain every 10 minutes
- [Fix] "featured" image is taken from json_metadata
- [Fix] Take posts from author only (not reblogs)
- [Themes] Removed old ugly themes
- [Themes] New Bambukah theme (default), based on TailwindCSS
- [Themes] New Minimal theme, based on SakuraCSS
- [Themes] Added "Aria label" and contrast improvements for better accessibility.
That's a lot, isn't it? Anyway, it's enough to run My personal blog as well as the BSChain France website. However, this is only the beginning.
What's next
As announced earlier, I'm going to make the official project website to better explain it to newcomers, but also to document all aspects of SuperHive. It should be up soon.
Concerning the project itself, it will be simplified in its installation, multi-language and especially with a module engine to invite develeoppers to create modules. I have to create an example module myself (I think it will be the contact module). The next versions will have their batch of improvements with in bulk :
- Categories
- Search field
- Automatic menu for the created pages
- Wallet page to manage your account from your blog
- Keyboard shortcuts
- And many other things
SuperHive wants to be the next-gen blog engine, better than its traditional competitors (WordPress in the lead), faster, better referenced, simpler, ... You can already get it on the GitHub repository.
Hope you like this project. Don't hesitate to share your opinion in comments and see you next time !
Of course it's posted from SuperHive ;)