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I'm sure by now you've all noticed a lot of changes recently. Yet we have never seen a single post regarding Patch Notes, or a Change Log of any kind when they're rolled out. Many of us have been referred to Github but having looked around on there the change notes are sparse and most changes aren't even mentioned. For those who aren't coders, they're pretty much just left in the dark to fend for themselves.
By now I'm sure many of you have seen the newly updated dashboard when you go to your user profile. I for one love the look and feel of it but would never have known about it until I stumbled upon it the other night. The same goes for the new double digit reputation numbers. We all heard that there was a new reputation system in place. We couldn't miss the new single digit number next to our names, but now they're double digit numbers and there was no explanation for that change or its effect on our accounts.
I'm sure many of us appreciate very much all the time, effort and work the devs have been putting in by rolling out updates every couple days. For all their hard work I would truly like to thank them very much.
I would however like to add that many of the changes have become a guessing game, an almost "Easter Egg" hunt of sorts without patch notes. When an update is implemented we often have to find it ourselves then guess as to what it was for, and often how it even works. I don't mind once in a while finding a new feature here and there every so often, or even running to Github once in a while if I really fall behind while I'm away.
As it stands right now though, many users are just left to guess and stumble about until they find what they think is a new change and then have to ask around for confirmation. This makes staying up to-date on recent patches both difficult and tedious for the majority user base to keep up with.
Most of us would welcome a chance to give credit where credit is due because you guys do an awesome job rolling out updates faster than we can keep up. Without a change log however we're left to a method of hunting, testing, and comparing of notes until we can indeed confirm what a patch was and how it works.
I'm not posting this to down play your hard work in anyway, in-fact quite the opposite. The work of a Dev is often underappreciated, fraught with long hours, sleepless nights of endless coding, bug testing, and lots of Red Bull.
Without patch notes of some kind however, many users are easily lost without some sort of change log to summarize them all. Your hard work often goes unnoticed because of this. More often than not, the hard work done by the Dev's turns into a hunting and guessing game while looking for any changes that may have taken place since our last login. I doubt I'm alone in my above assertions.
I would like very much to conclude this post with a big Thank You to everyone who has contributed to Steemit. When it comes to code, content, and curation; Steemit is truly a game changing platform on every level!
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I'm very willing to help maintain an up to date change log with all the patch notes because I'm sure you guys are busy enough. To do this accurately I would need to know what changes were made and when they were rolled out. I feel Patch Notes would greatly assist the Steemit community. They would both inform users of the day to day happenings, and keep everyone abreast of all the hard work that goes on behind the scenes as it unfolds.
