Hello, We hope everyone is well and staying safe at home. In this post we want to discuss about the open-source and hive funds. Along with that - We want to share the updates about the publish screen and media editing tools in the media mode editor. We brainstormed quite a lot and came up with some of the basic features that these screens should have. The Content Mode editor is still in progress and most of the formatting is done, we just need to integrate media in the Content Mode. We are trying to integrate as much details as possible in the screens which would not only help the users to perform actions easily but also feel connected with the application. We will let you watch the video now…
Frontend Progress -
Mobile devices are quite handy, comfortable and quick to act on user’s interaction. Media mode is important and most of the people are going to spend quite a lot of time on Media mode than Content mode editor and we wanted to give some of the basic features that a media mode should have e.g Video trimmer, image crop, Image filters etc.
We have integrated the Video trimmer along with image rotation, image scaling / cropping, image filters and more. This is just to ensure that the community users doesn’t require any other apps to do the basic editing stuff.
Design Progress -
- Publish screen UI
- Video trimmer UI
- Crop screen UI
Back-end Progress -
- Media upload API has been migrated to a different server.
- Handling of parallel media files processing.
Difficulties
Content editors are not well supported in mobile devices and there is no support of complex markdown renders in Flutter so we are making changes in the core parser to parse the content from blockchain and show it to the user. It is still under progress and we will keep you updated.
Video Trimmer
We faced quite a lot of difficulties while implementing this because ffmpeg is open sourced but it cannot be used for commercial purposes. So we had to explore some different approaches to trim the videos while maintaining the quality. It’s now integrated in Android, still needs to be tested on IOS.
Filters
We want to provide the best content editor experience and that’s why we want to include at least the basic tools in the Media editor to modify the image assets with filters. It took us some time and it’s now integrated inside the basic editor.
ToDos
We are still working on the content parsing and we didn’t really want to give this a lot of time because it would stop the development of other core features. So we are developing the core functionalities along with the research work on the content parser.
- Handling Complex markup on Content Detail Page.
- Adding Reblog and Gift action button the homepage.
- Beneficiaries details.
- Error handling of RC credits and related user’s postings.
Open Source -
Our first proposal is still valid and its purpose was to fund our servers, databases, storage and streaming costs for images and videos. It was mentioned in the comments reply that we will open source some of the aspects of the code but as we have seen the community is interested in having a completely open sourced code, so we want our team efforts to be valued and funded.
- The Dapplr team has been working very hard and we are putting everything that we have got with us. We are putting in our personal resources, designers, animators, tools, testing devices, money and most importantly efforts to make this a standout application from any other social media platform.
- With the recent proposals being approved, we think we are being highly undervalued. We promised to open source our full code once our product gets stable in order to keep it exclusive, we are still promising it but we need community and hive fund support. That is the reason we have created another proposal of worth 500HBD a day.
- With our proposal being approved and completely funded, we will open source all of our front-end and back-end code once we have launched the product and it becomes stable.
- We want to give our HIVE community an application that they would love, cheer and feel proud of. If #hive community want it, they will get it.
We want to thank our wonderful supporters - @liondani , @runicar , @soyrosa , @ash , @fknmayhem, @vimukthi and too many to count.
In order to support open source, Support our proposal
- Total funds requested - - - > 60,000 HBD (500 HBD daily)
- Runs from - - - > May 28, 2020 - Sep 25, 2020 (120 days)
- If funded, these funds will be used to cover the dapplr team effort to open source complete front-end (Android and IOS) and back-end.
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