Having an ant as a mascot, we are proud of our bugs. Bugs can teach you a lot if you take responsibility for them and choose to learn from them. Said so, we have just released a buggy version 0.33.3, followed by a new release 0.33.4 fixing most of these bugs.
What improvements will you see and what improvements were made in the back end and you won’t be able to see?
Main page
- Resizing of all the covers and thumbs for a faster loading, better performance of carrousels and fading through thumbs.
- Link to content creator’s videos on video description (to start having a Social experience)
- Link to perform a search on tags and categories right from video description
- Video keeps playing on the description page as you minimize it (still a little buggy)
Creator Dashboard
- Edit videos: Now content creators are able to modify covers and thumbnails.
- Fixes on how we collect data for the stats (this may restart some stats from scratch)
- Improved engagement and earnings graphs
Seeder Dashboard
- Improved graphs
- Sorting
- Performance numbers are now accurate (MB on hard drive/flixx earned)
- Option to delete videos
- As we have improved our backend, better earnings for seeders and some rest for our seedboxes :)
In the back
- Internationalization: all the messages are dynamic now and will let us release a Spanish version pretty soon for the Latin American main release in March.
- Subtitles, almost ready!
- Working on dynamic prices and pegging to FIAT
- Series: we have implemented all the flow for creating, consuming and modifying series on the platform. We may be testing some content on the platform you are used to, but we are aiming to late March for the series release.
- Improved architecture: less requests to AWS, leading to a smaller bill which means that our goal of having a zero cost platform is closer.
On the business side, we are proud of having been invited to the Berlin Film Festival to speak. Not about blockchain, but about short form series. Having also Adrian Garelik, our CEO, as a Jury for short form in Cannes Series, we can see that in just some months we have built a reputation and we have turned Flixxo into a respected voice in the media industry regarding short form series. If we are able to take over that format, we are pretty confident we can take over the world :)
Conclusion
There’s a Japanese word called Kaizen, which means “a continuous and permanent change for better” We believe that Flixxo is a little bit Kaizen-oriented, because we work day and night (some of us literally dream about Flixxo) thinking on how to improve the platform. A curious thing about Kaizen philosophy is that also invites everyone to participate in the change process. So do we! We take every suggestion of our community very seriously. We are just weeks away from our first mainstream release, bringing our project to its final users, and we were not able to come this far without your support.
This is a list of of some of the improvements on which we have already taken notes for the future, and added to our pending list. Some of them will be added soon, some others should wait in line for other priorities to be fulfilled.
- Comments section.
- Tipping.
- An app just for seeders. No need to download videos. Just make my computer a part of the seeding network and make me rich :)
- View counts — Like/Boost counts.
- Flixxo videos embedded on social networks and other platforms.
- An option to edit in which folder videos are saved.
Please, keep testing and bringing new ideas. A community-based video distribution network needs the help of its community. You can leave your comments on our telegram group t.me/flixxotest
As Anthony, our ant, says “teamwork makes the dream work”
