Yep! Steemit Inc is working on what they're calling "Communities", which are ways to allow open/closed post submission groups and moderation, as well as reward sharing mechanisms. They'll be how steemit.com lets you build categories/groups like that.
<p dir="auto">I'm also planning on integrating these communities into chainBB. Right now, forums are a collection of posts based on tags and authors. This <a href="https://beta.chainbb.com/forum/chainbb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">chainBB forum is configured to show posts with the first tag of <code>#chainbb. But once communities can exist directly on the blockchain, chainBB will also be able to latch onto those collections of posts and build a forum around it. <p dir="auto">It's going to be a good year for Steem.You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
@jesta has been great - very engaged and supportive - particularly at accepting and implementing suggestions. I've made a bunch of improvement suggestions and jesta had one of the bigger ones implemented later the same day. Keep it up! #chainBB is looking very promising - let's keep working to improve it! :)
When you update to the communities settings, will it reset all the content on the site since you are currently using tags?
I don't plan on getting rid of tag-based forums, I think they still have some merit.
If someone running a forum that was based on tags decided to swap it to a community based forum, yes, those posts wouldn't display anymore. I think you could just add past posts into the community at that point too.
Who are Steem's major competitors, ie block chain based social media?