I haven't published an update on what we're doing in over two months! The reason for this is because we are in that weird zone in which we are working on a lot of stuff behind the scenes, but it's either invisible to the end user, or it's not finished yet.
Still, I'll give you as much of an update on what we were up to and on the state of the project as I can. It's long overdue.
1. Images Standardized.
Some users have experienced repeated issues with image uploads and correct sizes. Currently, the maximum size of an image one can upload is 2MB, but apart form that, the sizes should be either standardized, or flexible.
Standardized Image Sizes.
Whether you want to upload a cover image for your post, or a cover image and a profile image for your blog - the ideal sizes for these images are clearly outlined.
Further, now you don't even have to upload the exactly right size, as our image crop tool will help you adjust your image so it fits just right! Our crop tool will help you to select the perfect size for your blog cover or profile photo, as well as the perfect size for the cover photo of a post you're about to publish.
Flexible Image Sizes.
Like note above, when you're working with cover images (and blog profile images), our crop tool will be automatically available. But that's not all!
Once you upload an image to your post, click on it, and notice that you can drag the edge of the image you just uploaded to make it strech or shrink - making the image just the ideal size.
2. Fraud Detection Increased.
I can't go into detail here, but we've worked on more ways to identify fraudulent behavior. One of the things that we'll unfortunately eventually have to disallow is using VPNs while you are tipping good articles.
Related to this, one article can now get tipped up to two times from one particular user.
Finally, if you've tipped an article for two times already, you'll get a list of three suggested articles below to read (and tip, if you'd like).
3. SOON: Big Ambassadors Monthly Competition.
This is another update that I won't go into much detail, but you can expect this to go live early next month.
TLDR: Be one of our most active ambassadors by referring people to Publish0x and earn your share of prizes in BAT! To get started visit our Ambassadors Program and learn how you can earn too.
And you'll have a solid choice of banners available to use too. :)
4. Growth and Stats.
Our internal stats show solid growth is continuing. As you can see in the image below, or by checking our public stats page.
Our Alexa rank is climbing too! We're close to making it in the top 20,000 most popular websites on the internet!
Finally, the traffic from Google Analytics looks good too, it was steady during August, September and October (during which Publish0x has had over 730,000 pageviews per month - and that's not counting those of us that use Brave)!
And we're seeing a decent increase in traffic for this month - but that's for the next update. :)
5. Writing Contests - Next One Coming Soon!
We've recently announced the winners of our third writing contest - TA Master. You can expect the next writing contests within a week or two.
6. Should Your Crypto Project Blog With Publish0x?
We've taken the time to count what crypto projects blogging with us got by doing so, on average. We've concluded that a project blogging with Publish0x that is included in the Crypto Team Updates category visible form the homepage, gets an average of 1,140 views per post! You can read the full post and check the most viewed posts from 16 token projects here.
Hope that you've enjoyed this update, even if it was shorter than usual.
If you'd like, you can join our Telegram community at https://t.me/Publish0x (1,200 members strong now!) - and if you have any issues, don't hesitate to write to our support at [email protected] (please don't forget to include your username and (or) email on our platform, we need to be able to identify you and this will be the first question our support asks. We will never ask you for your password though).
Cheers,
Igor
