A short summary

For those who missed post 1 and post 2 of this series, here is a short summary.

• I think the current Hive feeds aren't very good.
• I had the idea for a tool with which you can customize a feed
• The tool should be able to filter (either in- and/or exclude) blogs based on several variables
• I contacted @ecoinstant to see if he liked the idea too
• We decided to do a fundraiser to see if more people would think such a tool is worth money
• I created a blog for the fundraiser
• A few people have donated to the projects
• I created a second blog where I renamed it from curation tool to discovery tool because of some interaction in the comments
• Some more donations came in
• I transferred the funds to @ecoinstant
• Although the necessary $100 wasn't completely collected, @ecoinstant did start building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

For those who read my 1st blog about this subject probably remember that I made quite an extensive list of features I would like the tool to have.
I'm not a developer myself, but @ecoinstant told me that some of these features are rather easy to develop, but some of them are more difficult.
Although the fundraiser didn't get the entire amount of $100 to get started (yet), Eco liked the idea and also thought Hive needs such a tool that he already started developing something.
Not an entirely working tool, but a minimal viable product. To see what we can do.
And in this blog I can show you what @ecoinstant and his team have done since I've been given access to the testenvironment.

The tool

The environment exists of a website with some filtering capabilities I've asked for. For most of them you can decide whether to include or exclude them.
The testenvironment had a set of 10,000 blogs to test the filters on.

I was happy to see some of the filters I suggested were implemented like tags, author, date and community. But to my surprise there were also a few I didn't mention, but are very useful.
For instance the title. With this you can include or exclude blogs with specific words in the subject. This could for instance be very useful to exclude certain contests you want to ignore.
What I also noticed was you can filter on community ID or title. I didn't see the use of having two of these at first, but since you can use wildcards you could for instance use 'photo' as a community title. This for instance will include communities like 'Photography lovers', 'Photofeed' and 'Photography'; a very useful addition.

It looks basic, but works pretty well. It's a fact of entering the values in the fields an clicking 'Apply Filter' and you get the selection you want.

I must say I am very enthusiastic about this first prototype and curious how it will develop.

In the following section I will show you some examples of filters I have applied to get the desired results. I've created a couple of specific use cases for these filters.

Use Case #1 Specific photography blogs

Most of you might already know it, but I'm into photography. I've subscribed to a lot of photography communities and I also regularly check the #photography tag.

When I want to consume and curate photography blogs I can do this in multiple ways.

1. Check out my communities feed.
   Pro: That shows all posts
   Con: It also shows content of all other communities I follow

2. Check out the photography communities
   Pro: This will only show photography related posts
   Con: I have to go check out multiple different communities

3. Check out the #photography tag
   Pro: This will search over multiple all communities
   Con: The photography tag is widely used and sometimes abused
   
   
   So I checked out if I could use the new tool to see if this could help me.
   At first I thought of adding the photography tag.
   That gave me 1280/10000 results, what was a bit too much.
   Then I narrowed it down by adding the nature tag (I love nature photography). That resulted in 231 of the 10000 blogs.

I still saw some posts I didn't want to see, so I've added a filter to include only communities with 'photo' in the title.
Adding this filter resulted in 36 of the 10000 blogs; a very manageable number.

Funny enough, I was really attracted to the thumbnail of the first post. The Hiver was unknown to me. It wasn’t a very long blog, but the photos were beautiful.
There were just a handful of upvotes and no comments on this blog, so I left an upvote and a comment.

Use Case #2 Movie reviews

Let's say you want to check out some movie reviews. They you go to the Movies & TV Shows community.
So I included the community title "tv" and the tag "review". I excluded "netflix" since I don't have a Netflix account (I do have a Netflix account, but it's just for the sake of the use case).

Use Case #3 Remove annoying blogs

Sometimes my post stream can get flooded by certain types of blogs like contests or challenges that I just don't want to see.

This tool give you the option to easily remove those posts by:

• Excluding everything with 'contest' in the title or a specific word that is in that contest
• You could also exclude certain tags like the tag of that new and popular Hive Game everyone is blogging about, but you are just not into or #hpud if you don't want to see everyones Hive Power Up Day post.

This tool could give you a much cleaner stream of blogs.

Fundraiser

We want to continue developing this MVP further. We believe in this tool, but development hours cost money and even though we have started building, we haven't collected the initial amount of $100 yet.

As you can see in the pie chart, we have collected $57.90 already, which is great, but this also means there is still $42.10 due.

If you like what you have seen so far and want us to continue developing, then consider donating.

You can tip on this post or use the following link:
https://thecrazygm.com//hivetools/give/friendlymoose/1/HBD/HiveCurationTool

Finally I want to thank all the ones that have donated already. I also mention them so they can stay up to date of the things we do with your donation.
If you don't want to be mentioned in follow up posts, please let me know and I'll remove your name.

@quark.top
@meno
@detlev
@ph1102
@ifarmgirl-leo
@oldmans
@v-36
@ladyaryastark
@palomap
@shanibeer
@stayoutoftherz
@deepresearch
@cryptoreforma
@buttcoins
@gadrian
@pablito.saldo

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This was the update for this week. I hope you are as enthusiastic as I am about the tool. If so, consider reblogging this post, so more people will see it.

Thanks!

Let's make Hive better!