The Steem News @ 7 May 2024 : Engagement Challenge Season 18...

Applications are open for Season 18 of the Engagement Challenge.

@The-Gorilla releases the new navigation system for steemit.com.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Bookmarks on Steemit, a Steem Transfer Snapshot, ingan.elements, a Showcase Interview, Wox-Helpfund, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Engagement Challenge Season 18

Steemit Inc is inviting communities to apply for Season 18 of the Engagement Challenge.

For Season 18 only five communities are being recruited instead of the usual six.

Communities also have to give the details of three Challenges in their applications.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Wednesday 15 May...

• Steemit Update [ May 7th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge - Applications Invited for Season 18

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2. DAO Watch : The-Gorilla

@the-gorilla continues to post updates on his DAO funded protect to modernise steemit.com.

He has now made his new navigation system available for everyone to try on steemitdev.com...

• Proposal-86: New Navigation Available on steemitdev.com

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Pennsif the Witness

After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.

I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness

If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.

You can read my full witness announcement here...

• pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post

@pennsif.witness is now at #18. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Developer Updates

Witness developer @moecki continues his work on adding a Bookmarks feature to steemit.com.

He has now submitted a Pull Request to add Bookmark storage to the Hivemind code...

• Bookmarks for Steemit – Step 1: Hivemind Update

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Top 20 witness @ety001 has posted some tech tips for anyone working with Condenser...

• [Tips] Make sure you have set correctly when you use account-history-rocksdb plugin

• [Demo Code] Pagination of the data from the condenser_api.get_account_history API in ascending or descending order

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Top witness @justyy has updated the Steem Transfer Snapshot...

• Steem Transfer Snapshot Updated for Download (MySQL Zipped): 84536055 Blocks (25-April-2024), File Size: 8.1 GB

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Korean witness developer @etainclub has posted more details about his dApp 'ingan.elements'....

• [ingan.elements] updates - ingan accounts

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4. Showcase Interview

@ubongudofot continues with his Showcase interviews, this time talking with young Nigerian blogger @alexanderpeace...

• The Interview Showcase 94 - Exclusive Talk with a Nigerian blogger

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5. Wox-Helpfund

The World of Xpilar's charity Wox-Helpfund has donated 400 STEEM to Nigerian Steemian @ameh123 to help with expenses for his brother's kidney failure treatment and dialysis...

• WOX-HELPFUND donates 400 STEEM to ameh123 to help with expenses for dialysis/kidney failure and meds for his brother

@ameh123 has posted more about his brother's medical condition...

• Further updates on my brother's condition of kidney failure

• An update on my brother's health condition of kidney failure

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6. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 104 contests in the latest list with over 750 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 07th May 2024

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.28	08 May '24 2.30am
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#369	08 May '24 2.30am
SBD price	US$ 3.92	08 May '24 2.30am
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	162,781 / day	08 May '24 2.30am
Page views (steemit.com)	250,609 / day	08 May '24 2.30am

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This is #529 (07 May '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]