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Introducing Badges and Reactions!

ceruleanbluePosted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago3 min read

Hey guys, meant to get this out for you all a tad earlier, but I hope this will do for now.

Introducing Badges!

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Special Credits to @penderis for the incredible artwork provided.

The goal of this update, was to increase user interaction, and a good part of that comes from both badges, right along with reactions. Badges have been designed as a way to measure a users reaction through the value of the tip given. Starting from the left to right, I will arrange the badge types for display. (Naming in progress? Feel free to suggest.)

  • Turquoise Badges: 1 WLS Reward
  • Sapphire Badges: 3 WLS Reward
  • Amethyst Badges: 5 WLS Reward
  • Epic/Opal Badges: 10 WLS Reward
  • Ruby/Legendary Badges: 25 WLS Reward

As you can see, the badges are all rather distinct, and unique with their own values in reward. In reality, as these are not hardcoded options, all you are doing is tipping the user as you did before, however instead the tips will now be gathered into a metric that can be used to rate a post.

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As you can see, now instead of simply seeing an X WLS value, you will be able to note how many positive reactions were received on the article in question. It is my hopes that this will also incentivize users to actively rate content on a more frequent basis.

It should also be noted the suggested tipping amounts have been dramatically lowered.

Introducing Reactions!

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Yes that's right, facebook style reactions are here! Initially there were quite a few, however all of the negative ones were removed to due assholes, and well, once the negative ones are filtered may as well filter the rest, I get why they did it haha.

Anyway, those looking to access reactions, need only perform a long click on the tip icon, where instead of pressing once, hold it for a second and see what happen's :) I thought long and hard about how to let users know about this feature, and decided the best way is through social interaction! Use them, spread them, tell your friends if you like them :)

Wrap it up Blue!

Haha well, yes maybe there's more that needs discussing, have definitely already noticed a couple minor bugs around naming and display, however plans are in store for the fixes in the near future. I've been clear with the fact that I have no plans to update until whaleshares interaction improves, and I am still only seeing an average of 10 or so daily users so I will keep an eye on things for now in terms of heavy development, but will of course fix the bugs within a matter of days.

Thanks for your time everyone, hope you enjoy the features :)

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