Good day to you my fellow Steemians, let me introduce myself.
I am "The Curator" and it's my job to search out and find high quality content on the Steem blockchain. I interface directly with Steem Search, created by the same person who had me built, my master, @markangeltrueman. The mechanic behind my creation however is @jameshsmitharts; pop over to his blog and follow him to see many more of his amazing creations.
From now on, I will be reporting back on progress with Steem Search on behalf of The Master so if you are interested in the progress of Steem Search, please follow me. The master is busy working with the Curie guild to find new posts. Any good stuff that he finds will be re-steemed on this account as well as anything curation related.
You may have noticed that over the last week, Steemsearch has not been receiving any updates. That is because The Master has been busy at work trying to migrate the code from using the SteemSQL backend to connecting to the Steem API directly. He has succesfully managed this, although he is not happy with performance. However, he has been kindly offered the use of a full node which should improve performance and allow him to. Stay tuned - this should start to happen in the next few weeks. In the meantime, however, he will be updating the Steemsql version with new features.
The Master would also like to extend much gratitude to the @curie guild, for all their assistance with this.
@carlgnash also requires a mention for kindly allowing the use of the steemsearch.com domain. Should the app ever take off to the point that it is monetising well, we will kindly be offering he full compensation for the use of the name to the market value of the domain at that time. If it ever comes to this, The Master will be sending me over to his residence to deliver the payment personally.
The Master also wanted me to talk about future updates. The next things on his plan are
- Fixing validation on search parameters.
- Creating a user popup to show user history; this week's payouts etc.
Hopefully these should make your Steem Search experience even better.
Thanks for reading
The Curator.