Hi everyone, it's only been about a month since the Steem Bot Tracker launched and I can't believe how popular it has gotten! It's recently been up over 250 users per day! I'm humbled and incredibly happy that it is has helped so many people and I very much appreciate all of the encouragement and support I have received so far.
I've also gotten some great feedback from users and bot owners about how I can improve the tool, so here are some of the new improvements which have recently been put live on the site:
1. Bidding Round Details View
You can now click on the new "Details" link next to any of the bid-based voting bots in the list to see the details of the current and last voting rounds.
Previously, as soon as a round ended it would switch over to the next round and it was impossible to see (through the tool at least) if there were bids that snuck in at the last minute or what the overall results were for the round.
Now as you can see in the screenshot above, you can view the full details of the bids from the current round and from the last round for each bot. This should help provide some more clarity on what is going on and why you received the vote you did.
2. Performance Improvements
Previously the bot tracker site would reload the status of the bid-based voting bots every 30 seconds and would load all of the transactions send to each bot and recalculate all of the values each time. While this wasn't too big of a deal even on mobile devices, I wanted to improve it.
Now it will refresh every 10 seconds (so you can see those last-minute bids more easily!) and will only load the most recent transactions after the initial page load and update the values vs recalculating everything each time.
3. Fixed Issue with Missed Bids During Voting
An issue was brought to my attention a while ago that it was possible that the bot tracker could miss bids if they were sent while the bot was still voting for the previous round. This was due to the fact that it only counted transactions since the last time the bot made a vote.
This has now been fixed so you can rest assured that no bids will be missed!
Additional Suggestions and Future Updates
@ura-soul recently submitted an "idea" contribution for the bot tracker which you can read here:
Bot-Tracker / Steemit Idea: Integrate Steem Bot-Tracker Into A Browser Extension For Ease Of Use
First of all I want to thank @ura-soul for the first Utopian contribution to one of my projects from someone other than myself!
I will definitely work on adding this to the SteemIt More Info extension and/or creating a separate extension if necessary. I have never made a browser extension before so it might take me some time, and I have a job, family, and some other projects - but it is on my radar and I agree it would be an excellent update!
I also have a few other ideas of how to improve the tool so stay tuned! If you have any ideas, suggestions, new bots I should add - whatever - please let me know in the comments!
I Need Your Support!
The Steem Bot Tracker is completely free to use and I don't make any money off of it, so I would really appreciate your support to help with future development of this and other projects that I am working on by voting for me as a Steem witness!
You can cast your vote at https://steemit.com/~witnesses and since I’m not anywhere close to the top 50 you can write “yabapmatt” in the vote box at the bottom of the page!
You can read my witness thread here: @yabapmatt's Witness Application
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Amazing work @yabapmatt. Thank you very much for making this bot and sharing it. Very helpful indeed.
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Great service!
helps too much.
As the owner of @buildawhale, I support this project even though it means I make less. I use it myself.
Great job. Becoming increadible day by day.
Thanks for useful updates
What an awesome addition to the Steem toolset! Cheers!
Upvoted and resteemed @yabapmatt ! Great work
Great work! This tool is good. Looking forward to get this as chrome extension or as part of Steemit more info extension.
Dude, i just discovered this website from a comment you made on a post. Until now i kept away from bots as they seemed more "gambly" than something that actually could be used profitably, but now I'm more inclined to use them.
I especially love that it has the option to exclude the 25% curator payout while calculating max profitable bids.
Thanks, yes that's how i started out with the bots as well. People who are just sending bids and hoping for the best get taken advantage of by people who know how the system works.
That's why i made the site - so everyone can have all of the information and more "techy" users couldn't have an advantage over others - usually new users.
Just checked your website.Really awesome idea.I'll be using it, think its gonna helpful.
How do you add these bots? Manually?
Thank you @yabapmatt ! Your tool is very cool ;)
Thank you for the contribution. It has been approved.
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Thanks for all your help @yabapmatt. I really appreciate all the help. And you have my witness upvote.
Improving faster than actual companies do something you made while having to deal with your actual work and life itself. Improving something that is free nonetheless. You have my vote just for sere determination if nothing else.:)
Could you add minimum bid information? maybe could you create a link to bid on steemconnect?
Yes definitely - great ideas, thank you!
Hi @yabapmatt, thank you for this tool. I'd like to suggest if possible,, could you add in your steem bot tracker updates the link to the github repository of the tool? I wanted to fork it and create suggestions for it via utopian but I can't seem to find the github repository link here.
Will go to github and search for it there. Thanks!
It should have the link if you view the project in the utopian.io site, but anyway here it is: https://github.com/mattyice/bottracker
Ahh, I get what you mean. This one:
Thanks for the link, already forked it.
thanks @yabapmatt. I am using the bot tracker and it is very helpful.(I had a set of scripts to get same functionally before but it was ugly.)
also voted for you. keep it up! :)
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You have indeed done a good service to the community. This confirms what I learned weeks ago, that the bid bots are poor value if not taken with a generous helping of luck. Bid bots can look like great value 10 minutes before they pay out. Turns out, the one time I tried one there was a flurry of last-minute bidding. I probably got back less than half my bid. I don't think my experience was abnormal.
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I just voted for you. You are Number 34 on the list btw!
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