LikeCoin Semi-monthly Progress Update 2020.11.23

Inflation raised to 2% with the passing of proposal #5. Civic Liker upgrade approaching.

Edmond (Operations & Marketing)

Page views of the soft launched portfolio page: 1559, unique creators page visited: 615
Last 30 days 881 new Liker ID registered from unknown channel, which make up 46.32% of registrations from non-Media platforms, 28.28% of total registrations. Suggests to get a better idea about these channels and work on it.
Conversion rate of /civic page last week: 2%.
New app download (bi-weekly): 421, app WAU last week: 917 (+6.9%), number of Content Jockeys last week: 244 (+11.4%)
Civic Liker total: 1737; 25 new registrations in last two weeks.

Finished the promotion sales kit for Civic Liker 2.0
Finished optimisation of current two Google Ad campaigns. Current monthly expenditure USD 534, covered by Google Ad grant
Portfolio page launch promotion, with newsletter and social posts
Worked on product text, review the design of sales funnel for Civic Liker 2.0 UI, including creators page design and email reports
Meetings with Matters and HKCNews for project updates
Follow up LikeCoin trademark application (US)
Reached a few creators for Civic Liker 2.0, collected feedbacks
Social media (executed by community helper Daisy): Facebook engagement rate was 5% for the last two week post reach was 901. Kin’s photo post with record high 2,325 post reach and 8% engagement.

(Difference from 2020.11.09)

Historical data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16vCOjhdeSwumnB9YBVLEdG-9KjJMRytwzRf6peaVGKs
Number of addresses: 16,445 (+295)
Number of transactions: 661,721 (+32,563)
Number of delegated LIKE: ~268,800,000 (+38,710,000), 27% delegation ratio

Keep working on LikeCoin chain ISCN module, mainly focus on compatibility with Cosmos SDK upgrade

Completed new Civic Liker PoC UI on Liker Land, demo-ed to team for feedback.
Mitigated a bug which made liker.land front page empty for guest. It was caused by matters.news update. Before a fix is done on their side, we currently fill the liker.land index with feeds from the default follow Liker IDs if the feed is empty.
Debug strange Liker Land cookie behaviour on iOS14. Discovered it was an expected privacy feature in new iOS. David temporarily rolled back xcode version before we have time for a proper UI redesign.
Integrate Stripe connect API as an optional feature to new civic liker API.
Migrated liker.land analytics library from analytics.js to gtag.js.
Fixed an issue caused by wrongly omitting gas price when calculating Civic Liker LIKE per like. Added a lower bound of 0.1 LIKE balance for LIKE sending to be triggered.
Added filter query string param for Super Like API, used in portfolio page.

Continue to work on new Civic Liker API and Stripe Connect integration testing.
Clarify subscription update and cancel behavior when multiple users are involved. It was found that the current behavior under development is very unintuitive.
Work on email list feature for the author to communicate with their Civic Liker supporter.
Discuss plan if ISCN integration in LikeCoin WordPress plugin.

Fixed unable to interact with the LikeCoin button on the app caused by iOS 14 restriction, the new iOS app version 0.20.3 was released on 10/11.
Fixed some minor issues, and released the new portfolio page. The link to a liker’s portfolio is https://liker.land/[Liker ID].
Updated LikeCoin button along with the new CTA button and a link to the new portfolio page.
Implemented new Civic Liker related UI components with Storybook.js

Continue to implement the remaining UI of Civic Liker 2.0
Consolidate with the team about the final flow of Civic Liker 2.0 entry for beta testing

Completed UI design, with flowchart and remake, of Civic Liker subscription, settings and cancelling
Gathered requirement for the creator page
Updated the facebook banner in correspond to fake facebook pages
Reviewed and made suggestion to the Stand News new UI. Returned feedback was positive

Proposal #5 was passed on 2020.11.10 and inflation of LIKE was raised to 2% since then.
Delegation percentage with respect to migrated LIKE goes back up to 57.76% in 2 weeks. Still not reaching a level secure enough (67%), however.
Community member raised a radical suggestion to inflate LikeCoin by 100% and increase tax rate. The community is in discussion on the plan.

Presented “LikeCoin: Decentralized Publishing Infrastructure” in The fifth Annual Conference of Network Society: The Web of Phronesis on 2020.11.22, titled LikeCoin: Decentralized Publishing Infrastructure. Other speakers include Suji Yan (Cyber Labor’s Union Powered by Crypto-ism), Pavol Luptak (Impact of Crypto-anarchy and Sharing Economy), Frank Braun & Smuggler (The Vision of Cryptoanarchy) and Harry Halpin (Pandemos-Cryptography Against Hypercontrol)