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Today we finally roll out our first beta trial to provide direct sign-up interface via Steemhunt. This means that new users who want to sign-up for Steemhunt will no longer be forwarded to Steemit.


## 1. Why this Matters 

Since we started actively promoting Steemhunt’s content outside of Steemit with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and the social share feature, we have over 5K unique non-Steemian visitors per day. However, it has been very difficult to attract them to sign-up because they could only sign up via Steemit (and they had to wait for 1-2 weeks for the verification). We could make our own sign-up interface, but then we would have to pay three STEEM per new sign-up, which was not a scalable or sustainable method for us.

Now Steem dApp is able to claim account creations by using the RC (Resource Credit) since the HF20. This is a great opportunity for Steem dApps to actively boost their new user sign-ups by creating their own interface.


## 2. Goal of our Beta Trial

This new sign-up interface is beta launched. During the beta period, we will analyse the criteria so that we can boost up the new user sign-up directly to Steemhunt.
1. Optimise account creation claims to find scalable operations
2. Monitor the bounce rate and stability of the creation of new accounts
3. Develop algorithms/interfaces to prevent from abusing attempts

Since our daily pool for this beta is limited, **please DO NOT MAKE your own alternative accounts by using our system**. If we find any hunters who have made alt accounts, attempted circle voting or doubled up the airdrop rewards, all their accounts will be PERMANENTLY BLACKLISTED.


## 3. How to Sign-up via Steemhunt

_1. Choose your username. This account will automatically be connected to your Steemit username.

![sign-up-1.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaj8QUynMNU79XabgK4MGJymHQyfzQtRTcBCcCGiRLPme/sign-up-1.jpg)

_2. Verify your mobile number. This step is required to prevent the generation of multiple alt accounts from a single user.

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_3. Save your private key (password) safely. This will be used to login to your Steemit/SteemConnect.

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## 4. Next Step: Part 1  - Interfaces to Limit Abusing Attempts

Although this feature is designed to promote an influx of new users via Steemhunt, we are aware that there are a few possibilities for abusers to utilise it. So, we are launching this as a beta version, and we have prepared internal data collections to develop interfaces to reduce abuse attempts. The phone number verification is already built into the new sign-up system and we will have more algorithm-based tools ready soon.

## 5. Next Step: Part 2 - New User Onboarding Interface

After we perform the test/monitoring of our beta sign-up interface, we will launch the regular version with improved new user onboarding interface. Since there may be many non-crypto users signing-up via Steemhunt, we need to build a simple but fully understandable onboarding interface that makes it easy to understand the Steem community and token economy, and can transfer them to other Steem dApps.




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* Discord: https://discord.gg/mWXpgks
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