Welcome to the latest Lunyr development update! In this update we will be discussing our plans for Nebula, the next milestone in the Lunyr project. Nebula (Q2, 2018), will introduce changes in the peer review and reward systems that will ultimately result in higher quality content and greater user retention.

The core of Lunyr has always been the peer review and reward system. However, in order to understand these systems, we have to recognize several important hypotheses that were validated during the Private Alpha and Open Beta :

Not all writers and peer reviewers are equally competent Content quality increases with greater writing and peer reviewing competency Users contribution increases with greater rewards

Understanding Writing Competency (WC) or Peer Review Competency (PRC) is critical to building a high quality knowledge base. Average Writing Competency and Average Peer Review Competency are closely correlated with content quality.

If five peer reviewers with low competency are matched together, then the resulting content will be low quality.

However, when 5 peer reviewers with high competency are matched together, then the resulting content will be high quality.

However, there is a sweet spot occurs when the average peer review competency is greater than a minimum threshold. The minimum threshold should be enough to enable a wider range of competencies while still ensuring a minimum standard of quality.

In the Nebula Release, we will aim to raise the PRC through system upgrades

Education and Exam Requirements

We’ll create best practices, guidelines, and competency tests to ensure that writers and peer reviewers have the knowledge required to perform at the highest competency level.

Smart Peer Review Matchmaking System

The future Peer Review System will more intelligently match peer reviewers together to exceed a minimum threshold of the Average Peer Review Competency.

Relevant Content Randomization

The random peer review selection will consider a peer reviewer’s interests and competence in a certain topic.

Assisted Writing and Peer Review Experience

The writing and peer review experience will be guided with interactive human-computer interaction. All the interactions where a Chief Editor would normally interact with a writer and/or peer reviewer to ensure that expectations are being met during the creative process are being replaced with our Assisted Technology. In the future, Machine Learning may be used to better fine-tune the experience to the individual needs of the writer or peer reviewer. This Assisted Writing and Peer Review Experience will occur in what we’re calling our Intelligent Editor 1.0 and Peer Review Guidance 1.0.

Content Validation

The Editor is getting an upgrade which will check to ensure that the writing requirements are being met. In the future, we will add pre-processing and post-processing steps to ensure that the content is processed to a higher quality along the content production process.

Development Releases

Search Upgrade

We have upgraded the search on Lunyr. It is now 100x faster than before and predicts relevant search results.

Upcoming Mobile Release

The dedicated mobile version of Lunyr will finally be released. We’re proud to showcase our progress so far!

Writers will be able to write in the mobile version. Previously, writing was only available on desktop.

The Article Viewer features a minimalistic view that is easy to read.

There will be a feed that allows writers and peer reviewers to stay updated with all the recent Lunyr events.

The Mobile User profile allows writers to show off their work in a beautiful view.

Users can more easily check and transfer their Ethereum, LUN, and Points.

Advertisers can stay updated with the progress of their campaigns.

That’s all for today’s update! We look forward to building the future of knowledge sharing with the community.

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