In our continuous work on improving and developing features for Actifit, we provide another update as a result of the recent work done on our backend bot portion of Actifit, which handles aspects such as voting, rewarding, storing and retrieving data.
As usual, this update includes some new developed features, particularly a much updated and a large scope API that helps us further fetch and display data related to Actifit, adjustments and fixes to the actifit voting and scoring bot, a dynamic switch to the banned users list, and the much anticipated user rank system, as well as several other changes some of which are related to HF20 as depicted below.
Technology Stack
The bot is scripted using Node.js, and connects to a MongoDB instance for storing values.
In preparation for expanding the scope of Actifit, allowing further access to information being used and stored, and in relation to the new reward and rank system, we created a set of API end points that provide information pertaining:
Delegation payments on a specific date
Top delegators list sorted by delegated amount
User's last recorded delegation amount
Current actifit moderators list
Current actifit ambassadors list
Top AFIT token holders
Actifit banned users
Number of reblogs, upvotes, and rewarded posts on a specific day (each a separate API call)
We implemented a first version of the new user rank system, which also required additional API end points such as rewarded post count per user, and a refactoring of user token count and user delegation amount end points.
Due to HF20 and the change from VP to VM (Mana), we implemented a change to the bot so as it fetched the correct VM, and starts the reward process accordingly.
In this set of changes relating to delegator rewards, we implemented the following
Adding option for Steem-only rewards run mode
Storing delegation payments on local file
Adding option for skipping (or not) opt out users from specific reward types
Roadmap
Further continuous improvements will be done on top of the bot, particularly as we continue to work on the new reward system and as we further build functionalities required for improving Actifit and the needed APIs for smooth work.
How to contribute?
You can chat to us on the official actifit discord, or to me in discord private @mcfarhat#6013.
Contributions are accepted as pull requests to the official github repo.
We are having continuous tasks assigned to different contributors to our project. More official tasks are continuously announced :)
