Nice man I like the clean look.
The proposed changes also look to be building a very nice service for this platform. I agree with that Goggl style robust search and content display sorting. I wonder then, if this could essentially exist as (or have built on top of it) an independent front end?
I like peakD but feel it's still too basic in delivering content. Obviously following users, communities, tags etc give content to the user but I rely solely on the trending page to get the feel of a new/nobody and to experience the roar platform. It's essentially the front page to new users so that needs to be superior at traffic retention.
I have an ideal vision of SEARCH front and center that can on-the-fly generate content as the user types. Even letter by letter, tag by tag, user name, community, etc. A truly LIVING CHAIN that gives a user emotional attachment and imprints the belief into them that THIS IS WEB 3 and what they're experiencing is what makes it superior to the old systems.
There's a world of data here already but finding that takes skill and.. luck. So this dream front end I imagine could even show what's missing and by that show users where opportunity exists to grow content and in turn be rewarded for their contribution. Similar to how wikpdia have a "improve this.. " alert on articles lacking substance.
Anyway I might do mock ups but if you get it then that would be better. Essentially my point is that content delivery to the user commanded by their mind (through their fingers) is what I see as THE PLATFORM that would attract users and give them real reason to stay and also look further into Blockchain.
The rewards should be secondary.
We can all agree that it's not the great attractor. So then CONTENT = RETENTION. Discovery and Delivery however: the missing link.
Agree, that's why we want to showcase search in our works so others can see what's already possible and how to replicate it. On https://ecency.com we will likely do some experiments with discovery, right now, in search field you can directly search for tags if you start typing
#anytagor search for users@useror search for community$community, any other keyword to find posts. But we can/should do more in UI side of things, so it is in our Ecency todo list as well as Hivesearcher todo list. Please do share mockup suggestions 😉