HAF Plug & Play Development Update #8

Since my last update, I have created a new endpoint for polls and made some optimizations and bug fixes to HAF Plug & Play. Below is a summary of the work I've done and what's next.

Pull request: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/pull/9

New Polls Endpoint

I added a new endpoint to get a list of all the polls that a user has created, filterable by active and tag.

plug_play_api.polls.get_polls_user

Documentation: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/api/plugs/polls.md#get_polls_user

Optimizations & Bug Fixes

updated tag limits to support longer tags, which can be used to link polls to specific posts
updated vote count mechanism to exclude votes made after expiration date
added curl commands to docs to provide more examples of how to access the APIs
added missing timestamp to newly created polls in the main SQL function
fixed sql queries to include created field when results are returned

Looking Back on 2021

With the development of HAF by the Hive account@blocktrades team, the Hive blockchain's data has become a lot more accessible with the flexibility of PostgreSQL. The possiblities it introduces has led me to rethink all of the projects I am currently working on and below is a summary of where the projects are and what to expect this year.

Plug & Play

The development of the HAF-based Plug & Play has taken up most of my dev time lately and a few weeks ago I announced the release of a public beta that's open to anyone who wants to integrate custom_json op based features to their development stack.

A landing page for Plug & Play is under development and I aim to release it in a week or two.

Polls is the first open protocol/feature that I developed for Plug & Play and it is available (in beta) to any Hive dApp that opts for an integration. I am currently working together with PeakD to integrate polls on their frontend. Hive account@peakd Hive account@jarvie Hive account@asgarth

Umbrella Organization

Hive account@ladymwatsi and I are setting up an organization to umbrella all the projects we are building on Hive. The name will be revealed early 2022 and all I can say for now is that it will reflect the ethos of all the software we are working on.

Social dApp

We've been working on a social dApp and it's moving along nicely. We are aiming to release a public beta to the community in the first quarter of this year.

HAT

Early last year, I began working on a sidechain and protocol for attention tokens and monetization, controlled by accounts on the Hive blockchain called Hive Attention Tokens (HAT).

Work is currently underway to move the protocol over to using HAF and make it a Layer 2 token solution.

https://github.com/imwatsi/hive-attention-tokens

We are looking forward to getting things done on Hive this year. Hive on!