🥳 Navigation is Live

👈👈 In case you hadn't noticed 😉

Communities Update

Since my last post on the subject of communities, I received a message from @steemchiller informing me that there are properties available within Hivemind to store a community's Avatar and Cover Image. I have also brushed my teeth multiple times 🪥

This was good news. It meant that I could link these properties to the existing "Community Edit" screen and users wouldn't need to dig out long forgotten passwords for communities created many moons ago. This also has the benefit that any admin within a community can now update the imagery used in their community.

My plan was to use the logic that's currently used on the Profile screen and repurpose it for the community.

Unfortunately, things aren't always that straightforward as these 2 sections had obviously been written by different developers with very different approaches to coding, in particular with how the information is validated.

It wasn't too bad though - I was able to reuse some of the existing logic, components and validation to update the Community Settings page and also kept the previous logic (using the @hiv-xxxxxx account) as a fall-back if no Community Avatar or Cover image is set (although this won't appear on the Community Settings screen).

As with the existing profile screen, the validation won't reject stupid URLs but when the images get rendered to screen, they're run through the existing proxifyImageUrl function so won't display if they're not valid.

🧪 Testing

I've tested the code on the communities that I'm an Administrator to (all 2 of them) and things are working as expected.

That's no comparison to having a community of users test things within their communities though and it'd be great if you could test this update, as well as all of the community updates that have been made on the following URL:

https://condenser-r64jisicxa-ul.a.run.app/@the-gorilla/communities

I'm at a point now where I'm happy and would like to spend some time testing and tidying up the code so please do have a look and suggest any improvements that you can think of.

the-gorilla's Alternative Steemit Interface

In case you didn't know, I've created an interface to help you find content that you're interested in more easily.

Posts by voting bot users, abusers and spam tags are hidden and you can search by multiple tags - allowing you to find the content that you're interested in more easily.

👉 Launch Alternative Steemit Interface 👈

the-gorilla's Club Status Tool

I've also created a tool to help users review their club status - showing them where their power's coming from, how much they're powering up, transferring out and who they share a wallet with amongst other things.

Please use it wisely.

👨‍💻 #Proposal-86: The Updated Navigation is Live 🥳 + Community Avatar & Cover Images