News Keep Coming with Steem Developments, Partnerships and Plans

1. New Advanced Publishing Features on SteemPeak

SteemPeek is one of my favorite interfaces. It has been continuously improved, and that shows. From the general-purpose interfaces, it is probably the best in my opinion and doesn't stop here.

SteemPeak just published a post which describe in detail their recent additions to improve SEO and sharing experience of your posts over other platforms.

While these elements are not groundbreaking in the blogosphere, Wordpress having them for a long time, SteemPeak is the first dApp on Steem which takes these improvements seriously, as far as I know.

The 3 advanced improvements to SteemPeak are:

allowing to change the PermaLink (usually a shorter one containing the key word(s) is better for SEO)

possibility to edit the short description of the post (the one displayed in social media, discord etc. below the link/thumbnail image); you can also select the author of the post, if different from the account publishing it

you can choose a thumbnail image, if you want a different one than the first image which appears in the post (highly necessary and demanded feature, as you can imagine)

All of these are available from the Advanced section, when creating a post in SteemPeak.

2. Parnership between Steem-Engine and Oracle-D to create Scot.Ninja, and boost onboarding

This is a very interesting thing what the guys from Steem-Engine and Oracle-D came up with.

So, Steem, and in particular the new discounted account claiming process, has a limitation.

If entity (Steem account) A claimed 1000 accounts and entity B claimed 2000, they can't 'put together' (as in transfer/sell to account C, for example) all the claimed accounts, to onboard 3000 people in total. That might prevent someone to pile up discounted accounts being claimed and dictate the rules, but it also prevents massive onboarding of entire communities.

The guys from Steem-Engine will create a token Scot.Ninja and make partnerships with owners of claimed tokens for discounted accounts creation, to facilitate a way to create new accounts using their tokens, while they are being compensated.

This service is slated to roll out in early July, so it shouldn't be too long before it's functional. Maybe then we can see some real onboarding!

3. Some Plans For Palnet's Immediate Future from the Minnow Mayor Town Hall

Well, I haven't attended, but I found a post which goes in details with what has been discussed.

Here are a few ideas, before I send you to the post to read the full content.

A way to vote with different weights on Steem and on Palnet is being considered for Palnet.io; probably won't be two sliders, one for each token. Here's a potential idea I propose: it is likely the Steem vote will be a fraction of PalNet's, and not viceversa. Add a slider in Settings that represents the percent you want the Steem vote to be from the PalNet's vote. It will only be set once (and changed whenever one wishes). For example, if one wants to vote with 25% on Steem when a 100% is used on PalNet, then 25% should be used on that slider. When the user changes the vote to, let's say, 50% PAL, the system will know to automatically vote with 12.5% on Steem.

PalWorld, the correspondent of SteemWorld for PAL, seems to be coming soon - wow, someone moved fast!

Fractional PAL payout will come in the next release - I believe this is a highly expected news for very small PAL stakers, and a reason to keep grinding, because they won't be needing 3300 PAL to make an impression on the payout.

Here's the post where I read the above about PalNet, if you want to see it all.