I first learned about this new blockchain based social media platform a week ago reading a post in Steemit. I decided to take a look, create an account and write my first post. I believe it is a project with great potential, sport is a great topic many people like to talk about. I would like to share small improvements I believe would create a better experience for the users.

A social media platform key to success is community building. Scorum has done a great job putting together the platform and all the necessary tools for posting but there are additional functionalities needed to create bigger engagement to the user.

Personal page

Being able to see the general trending page and filtering by sport is great but once you start following friends there is no way to figure out what those friends are posting unless you go and check their profile. There needs to be a user page where posting from friends is shown to make that task much easier maintaining the sport filtering options.

It would be even better if a user could select the order of the sports being shown on the trending and the personal stories page, so you would directly see those more interesting to you. I love extreme sports and I have to select it from the menu every time I want to see if there is anything new published there.

Publication in the personal profile page

I would just reverse the order, the last published post should be the first seen in that page. As a user, I want to check how my latest publications are doing and I have to keep scrolling down to check that out.

Posting and voting notifications

This is also key to create community. Just a simple red dot with a number inside telling you one of your posts has been voted or commented would also make things easier to create community replying to those commenting to your posts and getting to know who decided to vote them. Right now there is no way to figure that out.

Pending payouts in the wallet

Showing how your wallet keeps growing is a great gamification way to encourage you to keep writing posts and engaging in the community. As users have to wait seven days for their rewards to be transferred, there is a sense of low progress for newbies which is unreal. Showing their potential future rewards in the walled will give a much real picture of how a user is doing, not to mention adding some kind of chart with the information which would be even better (an image is better than 1000 words)

Delegate (witness) Voting

Although this may seem a minor need. Most users in Scorum come from Steemit and know what a witness is and the role it plays in the blockchain. If we want users to develop third party tools there should be an easy way to vote them in the platform. Right now there is no such a tool

I am sure there is a big list of functionalities for the development team, but to me, this minor changes would greatly improve the user experience and would help speed up user adoption.

Thanks for offering us such a great project