https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/friendlymoose/23xp6Yk99sg9JGD5enYzpPfJD6wpU12twbaTBcfe9JZfBiNqAJhAXhFJBxbtWfFUYe8ZG.png

A bit of history

A couple of months ago I made a blog post about how Hive could be improved in my eyes. One of the main things that was addressed in that blog is the lack of good blog feeds.
And according to the replies in the comments, I was not the only one thinking this.
After some discussion with @ecoinstant, he and @thecrazygm started building a tool that would give us the option to get a custom, filtered list of blogposts, ready to be curated by us!
Who doesn't want this?

Improvements

A tool was built and even rebuilt from scratch and the input from the previous posts was put on a list. Some of it was already implemented. I must say that it is really useful with the current options, but future options will only make it better.

So, what's new? You can check out this post by @thecrazygm or read on.

My last update blog was from a while ago and it seems that not a lot has happened. From the recent blogs of @ecoinstant I could see he has been very busy with other projects. And when you see the list of projects that are on the website of @thecrazygm you see they have to divide their attention.
But nonetheless, there recently were some updates on the PCT project.
And maybe if we would give it some more attention, there will be more focus on this very interesting project.

1. Indicators for the age of the post
This request was brought in by @ladyaryastark, whi suggested to add a clearer indicator of how old a post is. As you might know, voting on a post that is a couple of days old results in slightly lower rewards. In the earlier version, there was only a timestamp, but now it is followed by a "Days Ago" indicator. The posts from today have "Today" behind the timestamp. A simple, but very useful addition.

2. And/or for tags
The tags field now has an option to toggle between and & or. If you choose and, you will get posts that have both the #photography and #nature tags. If you choose or, you will get all blogs with #photography and those with a #nature tag.

Use the tool!

Come on and use this tool!
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/pct

I've been using it quite a lot recently and it is really helpful for curation purposes. You can include the tags you like and exclude the ones you don't. It's also very usefol for people that run a community or contests for instance.

Some examples:

As you might know, I run my own photography contest. For this I have a special tag: #fpc
By this filter I can show all posts with that tag, except those made by me, but that are in a photography community.
This gives me quite a quick overview of all contestants which I curate manually.
You can save the search query by bookmarking it. This will easily let you run it another time, just by opening your bookmark.

One of my favorite filters is the #photography in combination with #nature one within the communities that have photo in them. This will include the "Photography" community, but also "Photography lovers" and "Photofeed".
In my official filter I have also added some authors which blogs I don't want to see, because they mostly make low effort blogs. But in the screenshot I only added my own username as an example.
For this reason I would like to see a 'minimum number of words' variable to be implemented.
Read more about new features later on in this blog!

More usage!

Have you been using it already? No? Why not? Go and try it out right away!
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/pct
I'm very curious what you think about it and I think the development team is too!
And it's free, so why shouldn't you?

If you have tried it out, please let us know what you think about it.

Let's stir up some buzz about this project. Reblog this post! Share something about it on your favorite short content app (Dbuzz, Waves, Snaps, Threads) or even make your own post about it.

This tool needs some more promotion! And it shouldn't only come from me 😂

So, use it and spread the word!

Requests

There have been quite a few requests for further improvement of the tool. A list of them is shown below. This is not the order in which the requests are going to be processed by the way. I even cannot guarantee that they are going to be implemented at all, since I'm not even in the development team. I'm just promoting the tool and share suggestions for improvement.

• ~~Indicators for the age of the post~~ (@ladyaryastark)
• ~~And/Or filtering of variables~~ (@friendlymoose)
• Filtering on post rewards (@palomap3)
• Filtering on age of the account (@ladyaryastark)
• Filtering on language (@ladyaryastark)
• Minimal number of words (@friendlymoose)
• Exclude filtering on subject (@friendlymoose)

Personally I would really want to see the filtering on post rewards and the minimal number of words to be implemented. That way I could filter posts that I find underrewarded and have a certain number of words.

If there is any feature you would like to see, just let me know in the comments and I'll add it to the list. As I said before; this is not my tool! It's for all Hivers!

Donations

The development team (@teammithril) works non profit. They have build a lot of tools for the community, just check their website: https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/

If you appreciate what they do, please consider donating something. You can easily do this with one of their own tools; The TipJar (which you could also use yourself by the way!).
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/give/mithril.donation/2/HBD/Hive%20Curation%20Tool

A shoutout to the tippers after my most recent blog:

Mentions

I'm mentioning the people that have donated something to this project in the past to keep them informed about the latest updates of the tool.

If you want to be removed from this list, please let me know in the comments!

@quark.top
@meno
@detlev
@ph1102
@ifarmgirl-leo
@oldmans
@v-36
@ladyaryastark
@palomap3
@shanibeer
@stayoutoftherz
@deepresearch
@cryptoreforma
@buttcoins
@gadrian
@pablito.saldo
@oldmans
@hivetrending
@v-36
@deeabbdmathews

Friendlymoose

I'm an amateur photographer with a love for indoor gardening, craft beer, and cycling. As the owner of the Cycling Community and the creator of the Topcomment initiative, I focus on fostering engagement and bringing like-minded people together.
Check out my projects below!

Topcomment is an initiative to reward high quality comments.

For all Hive Photographers: come join our Hive Photographer Discord Channel

A weekly blog with an overview of all the photography contests on Hive. #photocontests.

Share anything about cycling in the Cycling Community