Leofinance Team Add Both Polls and Search to Threads in One Release
I've finally been able to take a look at the new features added to the Leofinance Alpha and I love them both. I will most likely use them both in the long term. Obviously, I'll use search more often than polls, but that doesn't mean I won't use the latter.
Don't you hate it when the electricity goes down and it's not on your end, so all you have to do is wait for it to come up? Sure, the laptop still had some battery, but the internet was out. Now that I think about it, I could have gotten internet via the mobile connection. But I haven't thought about it then.
Anyway, that's a way to lose a couple of hours while trying to find something unplanned to do that doesn't need electricity.
So, after the electricity came back and I did some urgent tasks, I took a look at the new features Leofinance Alpha has added last night, probably after I wrapped up my day.
As I said in my first paragraph, I love both of them. Search is a highly necessary feature that helps someone find the content he or she is interested in much more quickly. The search is by author username and by tag, both discoverable in real-time as you type.
This search-by-tag new feature opens the door to using less popular tags, for niches, as #threads grows in usage.
When I check a new feature for the first time I always look for potential bugs.
I'm happy to say, that besides something that seemed to be a glitch that I wasn't able to reproduce, I haven't seen anything wrong with the search feature so far.
Regarding polls, I have a few more comments. I tried it first on the interface, before reading the announcement post.
My remark here is that before I read the post, I didn't know how to create a poll. After reading the post, the process is very simple.
What I would improve is to add titles to the buttons (aka tooltips in Windows). While the buttons for something like bold, italic, etc. are easy to identify visually, I didn't know the last one meant "Poll" until I read the post which showed how to create a poll.
This is my first and only poll created so far:
Polls are implemented using custom jsons and votes are permanent and cannot be changed. Also, votes are linked to the account casting them and the association is easy to check on the blockchain. Votes are assumed, not anonymous (unless you vote with an anonymous account). Voting is also 1 account 1 vote.
Stake doesn't count, at least in this first version. Maybe in a future version, there will be a way to restrict polls to users who have at least XXX LP or XXX HP.
What I'd also like to see for polls is a customizable deadline, after which the results are locked.
I am impressed by the fact both search and polls were released at the same time. Threads from Leofinance Alpha is shaping up to become a great platform for short-form content.
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I agree, the updates are cool. And most of all I like the fact that LeoFinance is doing developments faster than ever now. And probably more than anyone else on Hive).
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The updates are certainly more visible now. When they were doing backend work, we couldn't see the fruits of their work as much.
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I love seeing how Threads is developing, and so quickly! Thanks much for sharing! This is the first I've heard of both! Excellent! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
They were just launched yesterday, so it's normal that you haven't heard of them yet. They surely roll out regular updates to Threads, which keeps the interest high and hopefully raising.
Oh, OK! Then I'm happy that I heard about it now then! I agree, they are consistently rolling out updates, which is fantastic! I think Threads will grow into something very significant! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
By the way, the updates are to alpha.leofinance.io, not to the main site.
Thank you for the clarification! I figured that the Alpha interface would be getting the main focus of development at the moment. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
This is awesome news, I'm glad to see new features coming so quickly. Thread is going to be an amazing platform!
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Yep, I love seeing new features released regularly too.
i also noticed i can reply to my own threads, which i couldn't do before due to having a . in my user name
So another bug fix. Nice! I wish the Firefox voting issue would get fixed sooner rather than later too.
Be Brave and use Brave :-)
But keychain login 4 mobile don't work 4 #threads #newUi so only option is Keychain browser, far from ideal!
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I use Brave on Windows. I use Firefox on Linux.
Looking good!
Both features are really cool! I like the fact that votes are permanent and cannot be changed. Hopefully, a customizable deadline gets rolled out in the near future.
Yep, that's one of the interesting features of polls from Threads compared to the ones from Web 2.0.
Upgrading it over time is very important for the success of anything, and LEO finance is doing the same. I am very happy with updates.
I agree! Continuously improving a project is what gives it a standing chance.
Leo team is working amazingly and doing that is beneficial for the community and also what makes easy to use their app.
Search is definitely going to improve the ease of use for Threads.
More fun features.
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Thanks for your information.
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I agree!
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It's a work in progress and I am sure they will improve the polls soon enough. It's also nice to see threads become better. Are the polls visible only in the new alpha site?
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Yes, updates only come for the alpha site. Once alpha becomes beta it will replace the main site completely.
Excellent post Gadrian. Very informative. Thanks.
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I'm glad you found it informative. Thanks for your comment!