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April saw UX updates, new features, and more community tools released on Grill. Let’s take a look!

Login Flow & Energy Updates

Last month had two UX updates related to user accounts. First, the “Connect via Polkadot” option has been returned to the front of the login flow, making it clear and...

April 2024 In Review

We’ve been cooking up some nice updates to Grill to improve functionality, quality of life, and ease of use. Here are the most recent four:

Embeds



Grill now supports embedding links from X, YouTube, Joystream, and SoundCloud! Sharing content into Web3 has never been easier, and provides yet...

March's Grill Improvements

There is currently a disconnect between where a large amount of the discussion around Polkadot’s direction takes place, and where we actually decide Polkadot’s direction, as the Polkadot Forum is totally separate from both Polkassembly and Subsquare.

Additionally, both Polkassembly and Subsquare...

A Unified Forum & Governance Portal

Within the industry, there is always talk about how to onboard a billion users, and whether Web3 products actually matter to anyone outside of Web3. Who is going to use all of these apps?

When we set out to build Grill.chat, we were focused primarily on a smooth UX, without any barriers that...

Grill.chat In Web2: A Case Study On ITC.ua

September was a busy month for our team, with lots of updates to Grill.chat, a successful Polkadot treasury proposal, and lots of informative threads on X. Let’s dive in.

Grill.chat

Kicking off the month, we added a fun little side feature to Grill: AI personalities of Sigmund Freud, Satoshi...

September 2023 In Review

The Grilling experience continues to improve with the release of push notifications, unread message badges, and custom nicknames!

Aiming to re-engage users more effectively, web push notifications on Grill.chat will give you a giant alert when someone replies to your messages, so you don’t miss...

Push Notifications, Unread Messages, & Nicknames

As part of our ongoing UX research, we have replaced PolkaVerse’s comment section with a Grill.chat window on the right-hand side on desktop, or with a pop-up Grill “comments” section, on mobile.



This approach offers numerous advantages, such as allowing users to comment without connecting a...

PolkaVerse Integrates Grill.chat!

TL;DR: Token transfers are probably coming soon, along with Spacers and creator staking.

Every month we publish a monthly review post on our blog, but those are always focused on the past. Today, we want to give an update on some of our recent developments, and inform you on where Subsocial is...

The Subsocial Roadmap: Achievements of Today, Goals for Tomorrow

While you may not realize it, there is a glaring problem with the current state of Web3 and its communities. Almost all of Web3’s communication happens on closed Web2 platforms owned by traditional companies, whose best interests are usually not aligned with the goals of the Web3 movement. At...

Bringing A Web2 Social Experience To Web3

The month of May marked a huge milestone for Subsocial, as we finalized our User Experience solutions, allowing applications built on Subsocial to offer their users a UX similar to what we know from Web2. Along with this were updates to Grill.chat, the launch of FrenTube, and some marketing and...

May 2023 In Review

Grill.chat has received lots of attention since its launch on April 5th. By allowing users to anonymously chat on-chain without wallets or tokens, Grill has shown what is possible with Subsocial’s innovative user experience (UX) solutions. In this article, we will look at how message contents are...

Making Use Of Crust's W3Buckets In Grill.chat

TL;DR: Users of Subsocial apps can now delegate the signing and payment of their transactions to Subsocial’s signer service, allowing them to use Subsocial for free, without any confirmation pop-ups. This does introduce some centralization risk, but users are not required to use the Signer proxy,...

Leveraging Polkadot's Unique Capabilities To Enable Web2 UX With Subsocial's New Off-Chain Signer

Following closely on the heels of the Grill.chat release, Sub.ID will become the second decentralized application to incorporate Subsocial’s Open Communication technology!



OpenComm functions as the communication layer of Polkadot, allowing for the free flow of information in an open...

Sub.ID Integrates Subsocial's OpenComm Tech To Provide An In-App Chat

In order to further the vision of true decentralization, Polkassembly, the premier governance platform for the Polkadot ecosystem, is integrating with Subsocial!

With this move, discussions on Polkassembly will live on Subsocial, making them permanent and censorship resistant. To quote Jas from...

Polkassembly Integrates With Subsocial

Our web app has been rebranded to PolkaVerse! Previously, it was named Subsocial, the same as the Subsocial blockchain, and this led to a lot of confusion and misunderstanding. To remedy that, we have renamed it to PolkaVerse, the number one place to discuss all things Polkadot related.

To date,...

Announcing PolkaVerse!

Our web app for using Subsocial now has an onboarding feature to streamline the new user experience.



New users will be greeted with a multi-step process that will suggest relevant Spaces to follow, give them a short tour of the website, and get them ready to post.



The onboarding process can...

New Web App Onboarding Flow

Every month we publish a review of developments from the previous month, but after getting a lot of questions at the Polkadot Decoded conference, we decided it would be good to give the community a big update on where we are right now, where we are going, cool ideas for improvements to our user...

The State Of Subsocial: Where Are We Going?

You must use the product you are building. Use it, hate it, fix it. Then sleep and repeat until you love your product and can recommend it to your friends without shame. Be user #1 of your product. No excuses.

UX improvements on Subsocial:

Show "Create Space" in top menu if a user has no spaces yet.

Show "New Post" in top menu if a user has spaces.

Redirect to "New Post" page if a user has only 1 space.

Open "Space Selector" modal if a user has many spaces.

Show "New post" or "Create space" button in the top menu

On Subsocial, comments are essential "citizens," and they are treated as separate posts. Check out a link below: it feels like a post. Every comment is SEO optimized, has its permanent link, a page, and a link preview on social media and chats.

https://app.subsocial.network/1319/posts/184

Your comment is a post

UX improvements on Subsocial:

1. Show "Create Space" in top menu if a user has no spaces yet.
2. Show "New Post" in top menu if a user has spaces.
	1. Redirect to "New Post" page if a user has only 1 space.
	2. Open "Space Selector" modal if a user has many spaces.