It has been a while ago that I have posted an update of the Hive Discovery Tool I've asked @ecoinstant to build. This mainly has to do with people being busy with other important stuff. Building a tool isn't going to make you rich. At least, one for the Hive blockchain won't.

If you want to know what happened before, check out the previous blogs:
Hive needs better feeds! Let’s build a custom Curation tool! (fundraiser)
Hive needs better feeds! Let’s build a custom Discovery tool! (part 2)
Hive needs better feeds! Let’s build a custom Discovery tool! (part 3)(Sneak Preview)

For those who are too lazy to read through all these blogs, here is a short summary of events.

• I had the idea of a curation tool that could filter posts, so I could get a nice clean feed of posts I like (which currently no front-end offers.
• I contacted @ecoinstant about it and he was enthusiastic about the idea.
• I started a fundraiser to collect some funds so the effort could be rewarded somehow
• Eco started building and released a prototype

And then it became a bit quiet for a while. Both Eco as myself were busy with other projects. But things changed last week.

A brand new tool

Last week I was contacted by @ecoinstant again on Discord with the message that they had completely rebuilt the tool.

This is what he explained about it in his own announcement post of the new tool:

"But based on his feedback, and the way the back end worked - honestly I didn't like it. It was not scaleable, and it had some front end issues, including load times. I scrapped that tool and started again. Version 0.0 is dead, long live Version 0.1!"

So, there is a new tool, which is called the Post Curation Tool and runs on the domain of @thecrazygm, where also a lot of other cool tools are hosted.

Go check it out:
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/pct

Testing the new tool

I've been lucky to be asked to test the tool before it was officially launched and asked to give some feedback.

Although the 'old' tool had a few options that are still missing in the new one, it already looks way better and works a lot faster as well.

The great thing is that you can combine certain search criteria like author, tag, title keywords, community and app.

In the screenshot below I tried to filter my own posts that contain the cycling tag, which is actually one post in the past week. By clicking the post you get redirected to the post in PeakD. This is for now, but there are already ideas to change this.

There are some functionalities in 'the old version' that are not yet present in the new interface. Two of those things that would make the tool really better is the option to add multiple of the same values, like multiple tags. And the ability to exclude posts with certain tags, in certain communities, with certain words in the title or a combination of these.

It is cool to see the entire tool has been rebuilt and I think we need it some more time to add new features. And...

Funding

Yes, this is a project, that isn't funded by the DHF. There is no money to be gained when people start using this tool. These guys are doing this for the community, so why not give them some support for this.

In my first post mentioned I wanted to collect $100 for this project to be started up. After three posts and some generous donations a total of $57.90 has been collected.

If you appreciate the efforts, please consider donating to the team by using one of their other tools; A donation tool:
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/give/mithril.donation/2/HBD/Hive%20Curation%20Tool

You can also find the "Buy us a coffee" on the bottom of the Tools website.
Any tip being given to this post will be sent to the team as well.

Mentions

I'll end this blog by mentioning the people that have donated to this project, so they can stay up to date of the things that is done with their donation.

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

What do you think?

Have you tried out the new Post Curation Tool already? Let us know what you think in the comments. Do you have any suggestions for improvement. Do you see yourself using it? And why or why not?
Please share your thoughts about it.

Friendlymoose

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