Site Update 12/16/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: here are some of the updates that were done to our system. 

• Earnings Tab
  • This new earnings tab will show you the post-earnings over time (like an earnings dashboard), so you can see what you have earned, and how those have changed over time. see notes below on this feature

as you can see from this screenshot, the earnings tab gives you a good idea of how much you've earned over time - if you were paid out in SME/HBD/HP you'll see that as well. Soon, pending posts will appear here as well, and we'll be adding a way for you to EXPORT this data to your own accounting software as well (for tax purposes). 

• Metakeep integration (for wallet creation in preparation for Tier 1 monetization is completed)
  • Every user now has a meta keep wallet automatically created for them, and it will show balances in USDC for anything added to them
  • This is in preparation for our new Tier 1 monetization - to allow you to create NFTs directly from your news feed, and buy them from other users. 
  • Metakeep is fully noncustodial, SoMee doesn't keep your keys or anything, and all private keys are sharded and fragmented across the network. Meaning no one has your keys, and your wallet is completely safe. 
  • see notes below for updates on meta keep integration
• Perception Lenses

If you click on the lenses, you'll get the details: 
 

• • These new lenses will help you write better for your post objects - they are not used for moderation - they just give you an idea of how your post is perceived
  • You are not required to use them, and we'll add a setting to hide them in the near future
  • This is the first update for our content creator studio that we are releasing for everyone to use and test while we refine the service

And fixes: 
- Wallet bug fixes
- Wallet transaction bug fixes
- News feed loading issues for pricing
- Timing issues for price updates

However, keep in mind the following: 
- Earnings Tab is currently being populated, it's going out to hive/hive engine and pulling in all the site data for them into our database. So, once that process is done, everyone will start to see data in their Earnings tab
- Perception lenses are turned on for everyone at the moment, however, we will be adding a setting to allow users to turn them off, if they find them annoying, or just don't care to see them. 
- Perception lenses are NOT used for moderation, only for giving insight into the post that the user is creating - no one else sees the perception data, we don't store that perception data, we don't use that perception data for anything (presently)

 

Technical Updates

• Redis: Our caching Redis server has been updated, and RDBS is now being migrated from one data store to another more current one to help prevent any downtime on the server
• Database: We have implemented memory caching for the database data in Redis, which should help speed up data access for users
• Wallet Data: Wallet data is updated on schedule, and on-demand, for all users. On wallet load, the wallet loads what's in Redis (memory, which is cached data), it will also attempt to refresh that data, however, if you wish to see more up to second data, you can always click 'Refresh'
• Wallet Locks: We have removed the wallet lock button for now, as we update the process the wallet lock uses. However, if you set a wallet lock password, the wallet will lock after 15 minutes
• Caching Data: We are working on a lot of caching for the news feed, given how much data we have to run and load to display posts for you. 
  • For news feeds to load, we have to show: 
    • Posts
    • Hive Data
    • Hive Engine Data
    • Pricing Data
    • Global Blockchain Data
    • Voting Data
  • For most frontends, this is rather easy, becasue they only either show Hive data or Hive Engine data; we have to show SoMee, Hive and Hive Engine data, which drastically slows things down, as that increases the source of the data from 1 service to 8 services. 
  • But we are working on updates to speed this up for everyone
• Caching Updates: One of the things we have done currently is to cache some of the data in redis, so that it's slow on first load, but faster on subsequent reloads. We have also limited the # of posts to load on the news feed to 5 at the start, so the stie isn't so slow to load for you

There are a ton of other fixes we have put into place as well. One of the most notable is the hive functions fixes we have put into place, so that if Hive is ever offline, or Hive Engine is offline, we won't run into the risk of our entire site being offline, as it'll use cached data for that instead. 

Thanks for your understand and patience in this process!