RE: Improving Inkito - Game plan

[steevc]

Somehow I have missed seeing this dapp. It's a great idea as we do need easier ways to read comics on Hive.

A few queries and thoughts:

• Are you or someone else manually controlling what comics appear?
• It does not show who the author is. Maybe it should have a link to their blog on Peakd or elsewhere.
• I cannot see dates on pages/posts. Obviously this is relevant to voting. It also only seems to allow 100% votes. Maybe votes could be redirected to any current post the creator has if it is past payout.

I think it's a good start and should be getting more notice.

Comments

[jrej]

Thanks for the reblog. That allowed the project to be discovered by others. I had some doubts about the interest in this project but I can tell there is a space for it.

About your queries:

• The content is found through a system of tags. It looks for content with "inkito-comics" or "inkito-novels" tag than organizes by series with a tag {username}-{series name}.
  I suggested the use of these tags to hive creators but I know it's hard to change posting habits. To display more content, I'll create a "whitelist" system adding Hive series manually and on request.

• The creator is actually just after the series name. I guess it does stand out much. It links to a profile page on Inkito that fetches Hive info. I have a feature in mind to display hive blogs in there, but a link until then could be easier.

• About dates, I calculated the time since posted. It's visible when the description banner is opened. The idea was to hide as much info as possible for a better reading experience.
  The heart does change color from grey to blue when 7 days have past. Not obvious, I know but it's more a prototype really... I did choose 100% only to make it less confusing for new comers but thinking about it I might make it clearer to users that they have a limited amount of hearts to use.

Thanks again for the encouragement. As I was saying, I'm mostly working on optimization now. I wanna make sure the images load extra quick. I'll rework the UI after that. I'm happy that you have suggestions.

I'll let you know how it goes.

[steevc]

Well it looks like people are interested now they know about it. I hope this inspires you to keep going.

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[jrej]

Yes for sure. I'm super hyped.
I'll keep at it and share my progress in the next blog.

I'm working on it over the weekend and a couple hours per day after work. It's great to be back at it. ;-)

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