Vessel 0.2.3 - Bug Fixes
Since the release of Vessel 0.2.0, I've been busy talking to many of you and working hard to resolve the bugs you've encountered. The version now has jumped 3 revisions and is 0.2.3, with a few improvements and a number of bug fixes for various operating systems.
Before going too much further:
What is Vessel?
Vessel is a desktop wallet for the Steem blockchain, which can be downloaded and run on your computer. Vessel is free to use and open source, and is designed to be a way to help secure your account on the Steem blockchain. While using Vessel, your keys/password never leave the app, transactions are signed locally, and then broadcast to the network much like any other downloadable cryptocurrency wallet.
Here's a few of the other most recent updates, as well as the original announcement:
Download Vessel
Vessel is still beta software and it's recommended that you treat it as such. Before committing irreversible actions on your account (such as large outgoing transfers), please test with smaller amounts to ensure it's working properly on your computer.
Download available on github for macOS (.dmg file), Windows (.exe file) and Linux (.snap and .deb files).
- Releases: https://github.com/aaroncox/vessel/releases
- chainBB Forums: https://chainbb.com/f/vessel
- Bug Reports: https://github.com/aaroncox/vessel/issues
- Source Code: https://github.com/aaroncox/vessel
What's new in 0.2.1 through 0.2.3
- The delegation operation prompt will now display a notice if you have an existing delegation you are going to overwrite.
- Distribution of Vessel through Snapcraft (https://snapcraft.io/vessel/).
- Vessel will now prompt for operations if Vessel is not already open.
- Bug fixes to allow Linux/Windows users to be prompted via links.
- Removed the requirement of the
appdataportion of the URL (after the#)
Linux Users can now install via the Snap Store (or compatible application)
If you are using a Linux distribution that supports the Snap Store, it's incredibly easy to install Vessel now. Just search for vessel and it will appear and allow installation.
If you're prefer to go about it from the command line, that's possible as well, simply by typing:
snap install vessel
Vessel will now be installed and available through your application launcher.
Delegation Operation Overwriting
By the design of Steem's delegation system, you can only have a single delegation between your account and another. Everytime you change this, it's overwriting the value, as opposed to creating a new delegation. This is/was confusing depending on how the end user UI presents it before triggering a Vessel operation.
This new blue information window has been added to inform the user that an existing delegation is present, and informing them that they're altering the existing delegation rather than adding to it.
More 0.2.x releases
As we finish out this year and move into 2018 - you can expect a lot more of these minor releases as I continue to tweak what's possible with this custom protocol. This post itself isn't glamorous or exciting, but these bug fixes are critical for adoption.
Please continue to reach out as you're integrating Vessel into your projects. Let me know what problems you're running into, what could be better, and what it will take to help make your project successful.
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Thank you for your effort for Steemit
Nice post @jesta 👍👍👍👍
Thank you for your effort for steemers. I have downloaded vessel on my Mac and It works fine.
@jesta Happy Holidays! I am not sure if you ever read a post from me, but I really enjoy reading your posts and improvements to developments you continuously do. What you made with vessel is great, and it looks to me this is very related to the release or with the SMTs, because with vessel you let every website to connect to the steem blockchain, right? I saw @utopian-io from @elear already added vessel for their delegation function. I am their as a small sponsor by the way, and also contribute with ideas for the steemit front-end from time to time.
I also listened you in the panel held by @aggroed about the future of steemit, steem, and things to take care of now to achieve what we want to achieve for the technology. Amazing contributions from all of you: @jesta , @blocktrades, @lukestokes , @elear and @timcliff, as well as the others that were participating.
Thank you very much for all your contributions from the very beginning of the platform and the steem blockchain!
By the way, yesterday I published the 1st chapter of the Full Steemit Guide to help new visitors, new members, minnows and other steemians make their way easier on the platform. @lukestokes and @blocktrades deserve more than the simple thanks I gave them for their support on it. The same as them, by reading your posts, listening to the panel, reading the way you answer comments, it shows you really care about the platform and the steem blockchain and do everything you can to help everyone here.
I also just published Chapter 2.I mentioned you their and shared the link to a post you made explaing something important about the wallet.
I believe many more steemians will benefit from it on this new post too. Thanks for that great contribution too.
Here is the link to chapter 2 in case you would like to take a look:https://steemit.com/steem/@gold84/chapter-2-of-11-focusing-on-the-details-of-the-steem-wallet-to-learn-as-much-as-possible-how-to-use-it-transfer-steem-sbd
Looking forward to hear from you soon, and your thoughts on this new chapter.
Regards, @gold84
Simply high value contribution, comment and and encouragement. I'll head on over to your links shortly and will certainly upvote!
@jesta, this is once again a great step toward a solid wallet to keep our Steem with. Fantastic work and a giant THANK YOUUUUUU!
Namaste :)
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Thanks @jesta. Just downloaded latest version and working good.
One question what does VESTS mean. Thanks
VESTS is the actual number behind Steem Power. SP itself is a dynamic number that increases over time without you doing any actions (due to the rise of the
steem_per_mvestvalue on the blockchain), where as VESTS is a number that only changes when you power up or earn rewards.ok looks good. Thanks
Jesta you should also put a link to delegate to the Vessel project directly.
Not many know it can be done, or how is it possible that I'm the only sponsor?
https://utopian.io/project/aaroncox/vessel/github/90403454/all
There's a lot more promotion like this I should do at some point - but I just haven't found the time just yet. But you're right, I should probably promote that as a way to support the project, and then find a way to use the delegated SP to actually benefit the project itself.
I haven't pushed hard on the marketing aspect of Vessel yet, figure that'll be good to do after a rebrand :)