LikeCoin Weekly Progress Update 2020.02.24

Congratulations Tat!

Welcome to our next meeting

Drafted data storage structure and query flow for new stat report for Civic Liker and writer. After discussion with Aludirk, we decided to split the task into two phases. In phase 1, we will query data from Elasticsearch as hot data storage. In phase 2, we will add other database as permanent and warm data storage for very old data.
Started phase 1 task and also testing.

Wrote developer docs in docs.like.co
Improved and deployed a fix which allow us to sync new user avatar with matters
Also sync all user avatar for current matters user who have a liker id but no avatar in like.co
Found some Liker Land related issue, talked to authcore to fix some of them.
like.co Register dialog should load much faster now due to authcore fix and our prefetch hack
Listed one of the bug on gitcoin, https://gitcoin.co/issue/likecoin/liker-land/228/4039 , unexpected interest from many workers. Currently a worker is already working on a fix and I will continue to communicate with him
Started working on LIKE pay SDK MVP for receiving money, done some basic scaffold and QRCode generation, will deal with data format and liker land app support this week
Will release a minor browser extension update for icon and ux improvement
Will investigate how to integrate intercom alternative into like.co

Both registration and active likers number shows a mild, short-term dropping trend. it is because the KPI performed abnormally outstanding last Thursday (Feb 20), triggered by an incident about Tencent forum shutdown.
Both the spike of Feb 5, Feb 20 shows that our KPIs are greatly affected by social incidents.
App new download(7d): iOS: 127 units, Android 94. Civic Liker total: 1128

Revamped the strategy of email campaign and sent newsletter to more relevant users only instead of broadcasting to all users. The statistics of the revamped campaign is shown below.
The newsletter to cooled-down users was postponed to this week as there was an unresolved billing issue in mailchimp account.
Suspended the daily Facebook and Twitter post listing, save resources for evaluation and research. New strategy was being discussed, experiments were carried out during the weekend.
Resumed the suspended post boost banned by Facebook last week and led a momentum of Civic Liker registration intake.
Updated gitbook with the help of volunteer.

Will design handling on Liker Land app, if Likers reach the bookmark limit
Will reorganize the improve suggestion on the Authcore login UI , will be send to Enky on early this week
Will participate meeting with Enky
Will base on Edmond’s finding, make adjustment on the /civic UI to improve conversion rate

Review the ISCN-Cosmos-IPLD PoC and decide the later implementation of LikeCoin chain with IPFS
Further study on the topic about decentralized IPFS indexing
Prepare the sharing session about IPFS

have Matters raised the very first proposal of Republic of Liker Land – https://likecoin.bigdipper.live/proposals/1
shall continue to follow up with all validators this week and accumulate enough deposit by Thursday to enter into voting period
conducted interview with Google News Initiative and submitted further materials. Result will be out within March 🤞
met with g0vhk and discussed hackathon
released a previously recorded Podcast on Business Next – https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QwCW1ZYjEm4kWjEHjDaKB?si=DE5GBwBQTXatpijdii9FnQ
liaised with Authcore to follow up various improvements
following up with Liquid regarding the potential collaboration on Quick Exchange
did some basic research on replacement of Intercom, which has become far too expensive. In particular, considering Helpcrunch