After a full month of spending most my free time in migrating the old SteemSTEM app to Hive (as the rebranded [STEMsocial app](https://stem.openhive.network)), I decided to take a couple of hours to write a short update about everything that has been done. I will try to write those updates regularly (*i.e.* potentially once a month).
All the following items will be further detailed below.
First, the **STEMsocial community** (hive-196387) has been integrated to the app. This includes a modification of the way tags are dealt with.
Next, the **cleaning of the app from Steem** is almost fully achieved.
In terms of new features, the way rewards, upvotes and downvotes are displayed for the **comments** has been fixed and improved. Comments can also now be downvoted.
Finally, a few bugs (in particular with the **markdown/html** converter) have been fixed. Keeping one of the most important items for the end, I am happy to mention I have **rewritten entirely how most API calls were handled**. This yielded a much more efficient app on the client side.
As a side note, the items planned for this quarter (Q2 2020) and detailed in [our 2020 roadmap](/@steemstem/the-2020-stemsocial--1586870829) are quite well advanced. We may actually be ahead of schedule!
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Towards the STEMsocial community
--- The changes concern both post display and creation. - The posts that are displayed are now those carrying the steemstem tag (backward compatibility), as well as those **posted within the STEMsocial community** (and hence carrying the hive-196387 tag). - Posting from the app yields the creation of a post within the community. - Finally, when a post is displayed within the app, **any non-STEM tag is filtered away** and ignored. This setup correspondingly led to a modification of how the posts are loaded from the chain, that I made quite a bit more efficient at the same time. In the future, **post creation is planned to be greatly simplified**, in particular with respect to what concerns double posting (in the community and in the user’s personal blog), the way beneficiaries are dealt with, etc. This will go together with the deployment of **our future new post editor** (that’s currently [work in progress](https://stem.openhive.network/#!/newcreate)). ---From Steem to Hive
--- As said above, I started to **remove all mentions of Steem and Steemit from the app**. For instance, the hamburger menu on the left is now Steem-free, the sign-up link redirects to [signup.hive.io](https://signup.hive.io), I updated the [about us](https://stem.openhive.network/#!/aboutus) page (on which our curators will soon be added), and so on. In addition, login to the app is now achievable through **Hive Keychain and Hivesigner**. This being said, a few images are still very SteemSTEMy. Our designer (@glass.wolf) is on it! The FAQ and the TOS will also be updated very very soon. ---About comments and the Markdown/HTML converter
--- I have improved a few things regarding the comments to a post. See for instance the screenshot below for an example. **Upvotes and downvotes are now shown separately and correctly, and the rewards are correctly calculated**. The associated bugs were affecting posts and comments. At the same time, comments can now be downvoted (this will be soon implemented for posts). Speaking about bugs, I thank @astrophoto.kevin, @dexterdev and @mobbs for helping in further debugging the **Markdown/HTML converter** and to provide comments on the future dedicated post editor.
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