We have some amazing news to share with you, and we can barely contain ourselves!
EasySignUp and EasyLogin - First on the Steem Blockchain
First impressions matter. That’s why the most important step in onboarding new users to a platform is the signup process. But a new user curious enough about Steem is immediately confronted with one of the platform’s toughest challenges: either a wait-time of up to two weeks, or a payment. And then, even if they’re willing to wait or pony up, they have to secure multiple keys which can never be lost. For a seasoned cryptocurrency veteran, perhaps this is no problem. But for someone new to the platform who's used to signing in to social media with their pet's name as a password? It can be a nightmare … a bad initial experience that might turn them off Steem and TravelFeed entirely, and perhaps forever.
Recently, we wanted to introduce TravelFeed to a friend, bragging about our new editor and the awesome dashboard. He already had a Steem account (or "Steemit account", as he remembered it from back in 2017) and after a few minutes, managed to find the sheet with his private keys. After clicking on "login", at first he thought that he had to install the Steemconnect Desktop App, then we told him to click on "continue", but now Steemconnect was asking him for his "Steem password or private key". He was confused, after all he had nine different passwords on his sheet. It took a while until we had explained to him that for his first login, he needs to use his private active key, for any login after that his private posting key, that he can cross out the 4 public keys from his sheet and that he should get a password manager so he wouldn't have to type in the 52-digit private keys every time. Or he could install a browser extension. Needless to say, he wasn't impressed.
This was when we understood that creating our own login system as soon as possible was essential to enable (mass) adaption of TravelFeed and onboarding of new users to Steem. So we did it.
Starting today, TravelFeed is the first dApp based on the Steem blockchain to offer free, easy account creation and login. New users who might be unfamiliar with crypto keys, or the cryptic processes which secure them, won’t even blink an eye through our easy onboarding process we're calling EasySignUp.
If you would like to join TravelFeed and don't have a Steem account yet, go to TravelFeed.io and click on "Sign Up". We then ask you to confirm your email.
Since a lot of travellers do not have access to a sim card when travelling, we do not require phone number verification. Instead, we ask you to complete your profile and write your first post on TravelFeed, introducing yourself to the community. If you need ideas for your first post, we've included a great video by @coruscate from @steemonboarding. We then manually approve accounts within no more than 24 hours.
Once your account has been approved, you can choose a username and then pick your account type. For geeks and cryptocurrency enthusiasts we offer a regular Steem account, but for regular users we recommend choosing the option "Steem Account + TravelFeed EasyLogin". We then ask you to pick a password with a minimum of 10 characters and that's all you need to fully interact with TravelFeed.io. It's just like logging into any other social media platform, because we’re handling all the difficult, behind-the-scenes stuff.
We do provide you with all the super important Steem keys and the passphrase, when you sign up, and we urge you to take note of them, back them up and make sure they're secure! We offer you to download your private keys as txt file and ask you to confirm your passphrase again before we create your account. While you can fully use TravelFeed with EasyLogin, you will need these keys to interact with other platforms on the Steem blockchain and to transfer funds. If you lose these keys, you will lose any funds on your account!
Remember the #introduceyourself post that you wrote earlier? It is automatically posted as soon as your account has been created so the TravelFeed community can welcome you. You can now log into your new TravelFeed/Steem account with your username and password if you have chosen EasyLogin and vote, comment, post and follow as much as you want without ever needing your private posting key. To make sure that you have enough RC, we delegate 15 SP to you until you either have enough SP to sustain yourself or have been inactive for a while. For crypto geeks, login with Steem Keychain and Steemconnect is still possible of course.
How secure is it? - The tech part
EasyLogin is as secure as Steemconnect. In fact, we use the same technology: When creating an account with EasySignUp, apart from your posting key, @travelfeed.app is given posting authority. Just like any app that you sign into using Steemconnect, transactions requiring the posting key can now be signed and broadcasted by us on your behalf. EasyLogin can not be used to move your funds.
When you sign into TravelFeed with EasyLogin, we give you a token and using that, every time you vote, comment, post or follow/unfollow, this action is sent to our API, we check if you are authorised and if everything is ok, we sign and broadcast the transaction to the Steem blockchain. Unlike Steemconnect, you can sign in to TravelFeed with EasyLogin using your email/username and a password of your choice that we save using encrypted and hashed using bcrypt. You cannot quite choose your pet's name though, since we do require a certain password strength and a minimum of 10 characters, but that is a huge difference to a sheet full of passwords!
When you create your account with EasySignUp, the passphrase and private keys are generated in your browser, only the public keys are sent to our API to create the account. We never see nor save your private keys.
EasyLogin is available exclusively for new users at the moment, but we will add an option for Steem users to verify your email and enable EasyLogin soon.
Consider Delegating To Us
Your delegation not only supports the growth of this incredible project, but also helps the entire travel community on the Steem blockchain. And once we publish our token, we'll reward you according to your delegation. You will find delegation links at the end of this post. And again, we'd like to thank every single delegator who believes and trusts in us. If TravelFeed becomes as successful as we are confident it will, delegating to us is probably the investment with the highest ROI on Steem right now.
Travel Writing Contest #2 - Total 150 Steem Price Pool
@invisusmundi promised to make the TravelFeed writing contest a regular thing, and he followed through. He recently opened the second writing contest and even increased the prize pool to a total of 150 Steem. You can participate here and don't forget that only posts published through TravelFeed.io are being considered.
Maximize Possible Upvote From TravelFeed
Not only can you participate in @inviusmundi's contest when posting through TravelFeed.io, we've recently also added additional incentives to publish directly on TravelFeed.io as opposed to simply adding the #travelfeed tag.
Honor Upvotes: If you published through Travelfeed, we increase the upvotes from 50% to 65%
Full Upvotes (the best 5 posts a day including a resteem to the TravelFeed.io frontpage):
If you used TravelFeed.io you still receive our juicy 100% upvote. If you used any other Steem frontend, with our #travelfeed tag you will receive a 90% upvote.
As you can see, using TravelFeed.io really pays off, especially considering that our votes are now backed with a whopping 120k in Voting Power.
More Updates And Bug Fixes
- Add build time environment variables for a better dev experience
- Add a text label to comment and edit buttons. Thanks to @nickyhavey for the suggestion!
- Fix for profiles without geotagged posts not loading posts
- Fix reading time placeholder in editor reading "x min" instead of "x min read"
- Fix preview date in editor
- Fix parsing links when switching from EasyEditor to markdown editor
- Make beneficiary picker clearer (tell users to click on +)
For more details, have a look on Github.
How to Get Involved?
Join the TravelFeed Community! We invite anyone who’s interested in travel to check out TravelFeed.io and to join our over 800-strong community on Discord. We’re also looking for one more curator to join our team.
We ❤️ Open Source: We are proud to make TravelFeed fully Open-Source, and support other communities on Steem who want to build on our code, which can be found on Github. We’re still looking for contributors who want to work with us on the future of TravelFeed. We’re in Beta and continuously improving the software, meaning that there are still some bugs. If you notice anything or have feedback for us, please don’t hesitate to contact us on our Discord, leave a comment or open a bug report on our Github!
As mentioned already, now is a good time to delegate to TravelFeed. Once we launch our token, the airdrop will be based on the amount of SteemPower delegated and your share of the total delegations for each day delegated. This means an advantage for early investors delegating now while our total delegations amount is only 120k SP: a number that we expect to be much higher in the near future. Our Steem Power is fully used for curation of the best TravelFeed posts and we provide temporary delegations of 15 SP to accounts created to us, to help with resource credits. Feel free to use the following links according to the amount you would like to delegate to @travelfeed:
100 SP | 250 SP | 500 SP | 1000 SP | 2500 SP | 5000 SP | 10000 SP | 15000 SP | 25000 SP | 50000 SP
Winners of This Week's Round-up
And with all this exciting news, we don't want to forget to highlight our three favorite submissions from this week, sharing a total of 6 Steem in rewards.
Three BEST posts of the week
A quick recap - For the weekly round-up, we feature the best 3 posts out of the ones previously featured in the daily topic curation posts in the past week and on top of that 10 honorable mentions that closely did not make it into our resteems last week. The rewards will go to the first three places as follows: 1st place - 3 STEEM, 2nd place - 2 STEEM and 3rd place - 1 STEEM.
🔗 The thumbnails are directly linked to the original posts. Please, click on the image and enjoy the read!
written by @haydae
We had come to Transylvania to discover its rugged landscape and rich heritage, not out of a sole interest for the legend of Dracula. But of course, we couldn’t ignore the myth. It was all over our paper guide and all over our imagination too. Whether we liked it or not, Dracula was forever linked to this wild region of Romania and we just had to go visit the castle that had supposedly inspired Bram Stoker into writing his masterpiece.
written by @wanderlass
The following afternoon, we went out to the nearby beach called Maremegmeg. My friend went for a swim while another friend and I went for yoga. On a side note, I highly recommend trying out a yoga class at Birdhouse El Nido! I was in awe at every inhale and exhale as I look over the islets from the “birdhouse”.
written by @joshman
Lalibela is located in Northern Ethiopia, and named for the Ethiopian emperor of the same name, whose rein spanned the 12th and 13th centuries. Lalibela was the second capital of Ethiopia established after the fall of the Aksumite kingdom in Aksum. There are a total of 11 rock-hewn churches within the city accredited to Lalibela's reign, although their actual origin is a matter of dispute among experts.
We hope you have enjoyed these posts. Please do visit the fellow Steemians’ accounts to learn more about their travels!
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this looks great!
Thank you! What do you like about … and what not so much. We need feedback so we can improve.
Great news good luck! I've been waiting for a tribe to be prepared to do it's own onboarding, marketing and support, really impressive login in idea.
I can't wait to see how you do!
Psst! All I did was skim. Which token is this on Steem Engine? Or is it something else? Or does it say up there and I'm just being lazy?
They don't have a token yet i believe
Thanks for the heads-up.
We don't have a token yet but we're working on releasing one soon. But delegators will earn tokens accordingly.
You guys are kicking some serious butt right now! Amazing news for the mass adoption and I've found it really easy to navigate through the site, it's so smooth and the travel blogs are looking flash on your dapp! Will check out the new updates over the weekend and see if there's anything else in the old noggin!
Going to quadruple my delegation to you too 🙂
Thanks to @invisusmundi as we for the awesome contests! Came across some new travel authors as a result 🙂
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Thank you so much for your continues support and for amping up your delegation!!! So awesome! And as always … we value your feedback very much.
Any time folks, thanks for your support too and you're welcome for the delegation 🙂
Holy shit balls. I have spent the last 2 weeks banging my head about this issue. Trying and searching every option available that I could try.
‘There has to be an easier way, your average person will not go through this!’ This blatant truth just kept slapping me.
You’re post here is pure oxygen!
Thank you for taking on this issue.
You will be receiving a delegation from me!
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Exactly our thoughts as well! People these days are comfortable with their social media and they would not trade for anything more complicated. So to get travel bloggers to blog for the good side (the others are EVIL) we have to make it as easy as possible.
Thank you so much for your delegation! This helps so much!
Awesome progress on the dapp! Seems I got into steem at just the right time, because the @travelfeed team is doing an absolute standout job building and supporting the travel blogging and travel photography community, and I'm happy to be a part of it!
I've delegated my tiny 10SP, but I will definitely be delegating more as soon as my SP can afford it! 😅
You even increased your delegation .. THANK YOU!!! Now please spread the world of TravelFeed.io no more excuses for your friends not to sign up!!!
Instead of giving my work to TripAdvisor for free, here's my first hotel review for TravelFeed!
HT6 Boutique Hotel in Jewish Quarter, Rome, Italy
In addition I've tweeted this out to my 20k crowd, if you're on twitter go boost it.
Yes, this was one of the reasons why TravelFeed.ip was born. The frustration of conventional social media platform making money off content of others. Thank you so much for the shoutout! The more people know about TF the better.
Wowieeeee - that's some epic progress here! I'm super proud of you guys cracking the code for easy sign-ups for crypto-noobs - that combined with a very popular blog topic like Travel and we suddenly have a great onboarding tool in one app <3 Thanks for working so hard on this and good luck on expanding your roadmap - I see huge opportunities for TravelFeed, Tokens, combined with Airbnb like features and Steem payments \0/
THANK YOU!!! And there is so much more. The travel sectors is huge and we have so many ideas we would like to implement and we will, we just need 91 hour days :)
Hahaha - YES who doesn't need those!
Awesome news! That's a serious step to Mass Adoption. Try explaining all these keys to my mother who uses a facebook password like you mentioned!Hahaha.
Now she can just use the same password and use a Steem Dapp.
That's the biggest news I've read all week.
Congratulations @travelfeed team
Exactly! The moment you start talking about keys, brains shut down. So for basic things like voting, leaving comments blogging one passwords are enough. We're trying to come up with an EasyWallet in the near future as well.
Awesome news, an EasyWallet is a must.
Wish you the best guys!
Much love from Greece
Greece? Where? @for91days was just on Rhodes!
I live in Epirous region, it's on the other side of Greece!
If @for91days has some time to spend, I am more than welcome to show him around!
Good job.
Keep grinding.
We keep on pushing, we hope to present new updates next week. Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Yea man, thank you so much for the generous delegation too! The whole travelfeed community is inspiring!
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Great news from a serious group of people. This is a game changer and one of the expectations that I had for the future of SMT's and tribes. Not quite this soon but I always stated that we would see a time where people were joining through a tribe that they liked and would never see the technical side of STEEM.
They will join instantly and only see the token that they are using and a STEEM balance never seeing RC's delegation, onboarding issues. Just what they need to enjoy their own tribe and maybe cross over into a few off the different tribes or games.
This was always one of my signs for mass adoption and the blockchain maturing. Great to see you developing this and driving the effort to bring STEEM to the regular folk.
This was exactly the plan - we want to be first a working platform without the visible connection to crpyto or a blockchain, which basically scares people away. Thank you for your awesome comment!
You have done a lot of amazing work in such a short span of time! I'm excited for the coming news!
I'll share this post in my "outside" social media although I don't really have a following lol, but who knows someone might find it. I think this will be appealing to writers/bloggers or any traveler who hasn't created a blog yet (as creating one takes a lot effort and cost!), and you made it easy for one to sign up!
Oh and thank you for selecting my post! Thrilled to be back in travel blogging with travelfeed.io 😊
So happy to inspire you to travel blog again. Thank you so for spreading the word! The more people we know about TF the better! The TF Team is looking forward to hang out in SF4!!!
@travelfeed, Free Accounts are opportunity for many. Yes, we all know because we all faced the initial experience of storing keys and other get to know aspects. But now this platform is highly mature and there are individuals and communities which putting true efforts to educate newbies so that they can understand what this space is.
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And the Steem blockchain can be so much more. I think we're still at the beginning. And yes .. I remember how confused I personally was when I signed up for my account.
But times changed and experience is ready to share the Steem Knowledge. Keep up the good work team.
We keep on pushing, thank you!
Welcome team.
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Would you guys be open to opensource this and allowing other steemdapps to use it as well?
Our frontend is open source on https://github.com/travelfeed-io/travelfeed-io. Our backend is closed source now which is common practice, but we are happy to help anyone interested in deploying EasyLogin and EasySignUp!
gud, keep 'em coming ... hoping it has a minimal failsafe to prevent 1000 free accounts per user, the more the merrier, travelstuff always goes down well, where's the foodie-channel ?
... gods dam'n i havent anything but talk today with all the onslaught of data overload campaigning going on, but gud gud gud, things are moving, the universe needs movement or it will run out of energy
We're aiming to onboard writers producing good content, that's why we have the minimum requirements in place before articles are getting curated. And we're careful what new account applications actually get free accounts!
Hello. It's great to see you are making the experience for new users as seamless as possible.
A question.
When I try to login with Steem Keychain I get the following dialog window:
Is it something on my side or is just the link behind the Keychain button wrong?
Thanks!
Addendum. When I removed SteemConnect extension the Keychain dialog showed up.
Did you test the behavior where both extensions are installed and enabled?
We use the steemconnect.js library that supports both Keychain and Steemconnect, it assumes that if you have the Steemconnect extension installed, you prefer it over Keychain. It would be upon @fabien to change this.
Thanks for your answer.
That assumption is not what I want when I click on the Keychain button. I suggest that you change the approach. There are sites that are using both login helpers independently of each other.
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Since the code that is causing this behaviour is not ours but the one of steemconnect-js, changing the approach would mean writing all the Keychain functions ourselves instead of using the convenient steemconnect-js library which is written for this purpose. We haven't really looked into the Steemconnect browser extension, any reason to have it installed parallel to Keychain?
Hello and thanks for the upvote. I still owe you an answer to your last question about the reason. Bookmarked and will come back to it later.
Cool.. having more information on a place can become a good benefit not just for travellers but advantage to local merchants plus discovering places must travel . and from what i conclude from the article the app is all about beauty of the must see and support of writers on the area .
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Congratulations for the new plataform guys! Amazing!!! Love it! Can barely wait to contribute with more travel content! I'll be back! :)
We're eager to read about your travelers .… don't let us wait too long :)
Well this is nice. Good on you to allow more people to get STEEM accounts at no cost.
The more good travel content the better!
I don't think anyone can argue with that!
Wow! Steem is really changing and travel feed looks to be providing an incredible service. What is roi on sp delegation at now?
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We can't give any except numbers but once we release our token we airdrop fairly depending on the amount and days of delegation.
Finally, a move towards getting more people on steem! Great job guys! I'll definitely will be paying more attention to your front end from now!
Thank you and please spread the word :) Have a great day.
great news, hope this brings many new people!
Our man target now is to approach outside of the blockchain Travel Bloggers .. and there are PLENTY!!!!
that is true, making it easier to sign up is a great way to attract them
I think everyone remembers signing up for the first time through Steemit.…
This is such an amazing news!!!!
Yees!!! And please do spread the word :) That would mean a lot to us!
I will :)
Free accounts are awesome! I wonder how sustainable it'll be
Very much .. we do review new accounts and got many on hold!
Sounds good, what's your business model?
We're going to release a business plan and whitepaper Q4 .… if you would like to know more about TravelFeed, don't hold back to reach out to one of the founders via PM.
So how does the verification works in background i mean like mutlipual activities and from keeping spammers out
Manual review - we want of course give accounts to possible users of our platform.
How much you delegate to new accounts?
You don't need to delegate to sign up through us. Delegations are accepted if you want to support our project and interested in our future token airdrop.
Thank you @travelfeed for #EasySignUp - I upvoted and resteemed your post 😀
Thank you sooo much!
Next goal-mobile app?)))
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We stil have tons to do on the platform itself but our focus is to make an effort for TravelFeed.io to look great on ALL devices!
Thanks for your job
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Easy sign up is something much needed for me. Thank you
Those are really great news, Best of luck and will hope to see more progress of this project . Thanks for using #neoxian tag .
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That is awesome news, the easier things are for people the better.
That is awesome news,
The easier things are for
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What is the stipulation for creating a free account? Do they have to be travel bloggers? Will they be penalized if they create their account on TravelFeed but use a different front-end after?
Since users are going to sign through platform we want them of course to be potential users.
Awesome, a step in the right direction for the whole blockchain.
Thanks for the mention and the reward!
wow this is great..this will inspired all steemians to active again.
And to get content creators outside our chain on board!
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How much to new accounts
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If new users sign up through us, it's free but more info in this article!
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Exactly and please please please - help to spread the word about TF!
it's helpful.
You have done impressive work and You've almost mastered that!
nice one, hoping for more...