The Steem News @ 5 September 2024 : All Change for the Engagement Challenge...

It is all change for Season 20 of the Engagement Challenge.

DLIKE is back in action.

Today's Steem News also includes Developer Updates, Meetup Calendar, Talking Points, and Contest Corner...

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1. All Change for the Engagement Challenge

Steemit Inc has announced the winners for Season 20 of the Engagement Challenge.

Out of a record 62 applications, 15 Teaching Teams and Challengers have been selected for the new season.

The numbers are well up on previous seasons reflecting the dropping of the various rules and guidelines for applications, and the shift in focus to the Teaching Teams.

Steemit Inc have highlighted that the Steem blockchain offers a unique environment for online learning with courses being free and and the potential to be rewarded for your endeavours.

The Teaching Teams selected cover a wide range of subjects including cooking, crochet, business, programming, graphic design, fitness, hematology, pattern making, creative writing, spreadsheets…

• Steemit Update [ September 4th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 20

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2. DLIKE is Back

Originally launched 6 years ago DLIKE has been dormant for a while following adverse changes on the chain.

Now it is up and running again providing an Instagram / Pinterest like interface for Steem...

• Latest Version of DLIKE is Live - New Features Coming!

• https://dlike.io/

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@dlike witness is also featured in this week's Showcase Interview from @ubongudofot...

• The Interview Showcase 112: Exclusive Talk with A Pakistani Steem witness

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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 #19. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Developer Updates

Witness developer @justyy has tested his new TRX to STEEM swap tool...

• Testing TRON-to-STEEM requires 1 TRX

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@etainclub is continuing work on his Steem payment system, SoodalPay.

A Steem Wallet function has now been added...

• [SoodalPay] SoodalPay Adds Steem Wallet Function

• [SoodalPay] Seller screen + alpha

Witness developer @etainclub has also posted a list of all the apps he has developed on Steem including ppebak.com, an online store, a blog app, a Steem Accounts Exchange, and an Anonymous Posting app...

• My Many Steem Apps

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@ety001 has done some optimisation of the bridge.get_ranked_posts API to improve the display speed of the trending listing page for communities...

• [Notice] Optimized the bridge.get_ranked_posts API | 优化了 bridge.get_ranked_posts 接口

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@michelangelo3 has been testing scheduled posts on SteemPro...

• Geplante Posts mit SteemPro

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@remlaps has now made his Steem Conversation Accelerator browser extension open source...

• Programming Diary 24: The Steem Conversation Accelerator (SCA) is now Open Source

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4. Meetup Calendar

Steem Meetups continue around the world.

Next up tomorrow is an event in Dhaka, Bangladesh organised by @shiftitamanna.

After that on 8 September is the meetup in Aceh, Indonesia with 56 attendees signed up so far...

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6 September - Bangladesh, Dhaka

• Event Date & Official T-Shirt Announcements and Participants List Update in Global Meetup in Dhaka, Bangladesh 2024

8 September - Indonesia

• Update daftar peserta Meet-Up Global Indonesia, 8 September 2024 | Pendaftaran ditutup besok...

5 & 6 October - South Korea

• [등록 공지 및 후원 요청] Summer STEEMFEST Korea 2024

2 November - Venezuela

• Anuncio para el meet up centro-norte venezuela (Estado Aragua)

• We begin preparations for the Meet Up Aragua 2024

30 November - Nigeria

• T-shirt update in view of the upcoming National meetup for Nigerian steemians

• Financial Update For The Upcoming National Meetup

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If anyone knows of any other Meetups being planned anywhere in the world please post in the Comments.

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5. Talking Points

@dove11 discusses the importance of comments.

Should comments get as much curation attention as posts...

• Importance of Comments

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@remlaps raises the tricky issue of downvotes.

What role should downvotes play on the Steem blockchain...

• Make Downvotes Great Again?

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Witness @xpilar asks if Steem has a healthy ecosystem...

• A healthy ecosystem, do we have it?

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6. Contest Corner

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

There are 104 contests in the latest list with over 650 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 05th September 2024

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Steem Rep and Healthy Steem Mod @dexsyluz is running a contest about the topical issue of MPox (formerly Monkey Pox)...

• Contest: Global alert for monkeypox

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The @italygame team run a number of weekly contests including photography, food and travel.

You can find them all in their Digitaly magazine...

• DIGITALY 52 - Official Magazine of the ITALY Community / Rivista ufficiale della Community ITALY

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.15	5 Sep '24 3.30pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#397	5 Sep '24 3.30pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.33	5 Sep '24 3.30pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	130,635 / day	5 Sep '24 3.30pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	199,844 / day	5 Sep '24 3.30pm UTC

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This is #544 (05 Sep '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]