Discovery or curation tool?

The title of this series has changed from curation tool into discovery tool and now back into curation tool. Both the name as the intentions with the tool are changing along the way. But what's in a name when people find the tool itself useful. Because the developers called it curation tool, I'll just keep that in the title of these blogs as well.

New functions!

In my last blog in this series I announced the rebuilding of the Curation Tool by the developers (@ecoinstant & @thecrazygm). The first version of the tool was very basic. You could filter the blog posts of the past 7 days based on username, tag, community, title or some other variables.

I've started testing the tool right away and provided some feedback. I said that adding the option to add more than one of the same variable (for instance multiple tags) and the option to exclude certain tags would surely improve the usefulness of tool (at least, for me).
And just a short time later I received the following chat!

I've started testing it out and it worked like charm:

Luckily I'm not the only one asking for feature requests. Now I don't have to feel that they are building this tool just for me 😂

@hafiz34 asked if it was possible to change the links to be opened by another front-end and in his case ecency.
It was just a matter of time before @thecrazygm introduced the hivel.ink by @cadawg, which allows links to be opened in a couple of different front-ends (and set this as your default.

The developers need your input to improve this tool, so please share your suggestions and change requests in the comments! And who knows, they might implement it.

Donations

The team mithril team that developed this tool works non profit. They build a lot of tools for the community. In my previous blogs I've done a fundraiser with which we collected $57.90 for the team to start building the tool.
I'm not continuing the fundraiser, but I do want to point out that these guys are developing this tool for free, so if you like the tool and, to speak with Eco's words; 'think it is worth money', please consider giving these guys a tip. You can do that with their own Tipping Jar Tool:
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/give/mithril.donation/2/HBD/Hive%20Curation%20Tool
You can change both the amount as the currency in the tool.

As I'm the one that has asked for this tool in the first place I've given another tip myself.
After my latest blog, a couple of other Hivers also donated something.

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

Use cases

I've been testing the Hive Curation Tool for a while now and I have found quite a couple of interesting use cases I wanted to share with you.

Community Compilation posts

I'm running my own community (The Hive Cycling Community) for which I regularly create compilation posts of all the interesting blog posts created in the community in the past week.

By making the following selection, I grab all those blog posts in one. I exclude the strava2hive tag because these are automated, actifit-like posts that I never add to the compilation posts.
Tag: -strava2hive
Community: hive-177745

Photography Posts

Photography is one of my favorite subjects. A lot of the posts I curate are related to photography.
Besides that I also like nature. By filtering on the Photography and Photography lovers community and adding the #nature tag I just get the posts I want to see.
Tag: nature
Community: hive-194913, hive-119845

My Photography contest

I'm also running my own photography contest. For this I've created my own tag: #fpc
By filtering on this tag and excluding my own posts I get to see all the contestants in the past week. This way I can easily find and upvote these posts and select a winner for the week.
Tag: fpc
Author: -friendlymoose

Feature requests, bugs and comments...

So, I shared you some options on how I use the tool. I wonder if any of you already tested it out and maybe has some comments on how it works and maybe also has some features they would like to see being added...
I've shilled the tool in the HHH Discord Show by @ph1102 yesterday and @palomap3 had a nice suggestion:

Also @ladyaryastark replied to my last post with some features she would like to see. If I've translated it correctly the requests were a possibility to filter on the age of the account so you could show only newer accounts (to support new Hivers). Another request was to show the age of the post (1, 2, 3 days).
Finally she would like to see the option to filter on language. This one seems a bit difficult (if not impossible) since that is not a hard variable and many posts are multilingual, but I just drop it here.

I've also contacted Eco about how the multiple variables work. I assumed Tag:photography,nature would result in posts that had both the photography as the nature tag, but it seems that it collects posts that have photography OR nature tags. He's already looking into that.

So if you want to see anything added... just put it in the comments. I know @ecoinstant will check out this blog and the comments.

For now we have the following requests:

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

Just to make sure: Having your request on the list does not mean they are going to implement it.

UPDATE:
And/Or for tags has just been implemented!
https://peakd.com/hive-186392/@thecrazygm/delivering-on-feedback-the-curation-tool-gets-an-upgrade

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