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@upvu is developing a new front end for Steem. Steemit have expanded the Community Curators for December with the addition of Team Newcomer. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Steem Marketing on Instagram, Press4Steem, Hivemind, Burning Steem, Cotina Fest 2022, World Smile South Africa, Communities on Steem, and Contests on Steem... --- ---

1. UPVU 2.0 - New Steem Frontend

The @upvu team are developing a new front end for Steem. > UPVU 2.0 is a third-party front-end web interface for interacting with the Steem blockchain and viewing blockchain data, built by forking ecency. > UPVU 2.0 provides features similar to Steempeak or Busy.org, but differs in that it adds a few special features, including the UPVU dashboard and Steem-Engine explorer. UPVU 2.0 includes drafts, scheduled posts, and a new editor. It is due to launch next week... * [**UPVU 2.0 : A New 3rd-party Frontend is coming!**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@upvu/upvu-2-0-a-new-3rd-party-frontend-is-coming) * [**간편하면서도 강력한 새로운 인터페이스 UPVU 2.0 출시 예정!**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@upvu/2hcb7r-upvu-2-0) --- ---

2. More Community Curators - Team Newcomer

Steemit have announced that they are expanding the Community Curator teams for December. Team Newcomer will specifically be for supporting newcomers during their first three months on the platform. The team will be using @steemcurator09 with 500K SP delegation. Applications for Team Newcomers should be submitted by 11:59 pm UTC, on Sunday 27 November... * [**Steemit Update [Nov 22nd, 2022] : Community Curators for December - Team Newcomer**](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-update-nov-22nd-2022-community-curators-for-december-team-newcomer) --- --- ### _Pennsif the Witness_

_After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level._ _I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... **@pennsif.witness**_ _**If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.**_ _You can read my full witness announcement here..._ * [_**pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post**_](https://steemit.com/witness/@pennsif.witness/pennsif-witness-witness-campaign-post) _Thank you._ --- ---

3. Steem Marketing on Instagram

The Steem Marketing team led by @pollito22 and @o1eh are making progress promoting Steem on Instagram. @pollito22, @o1eh, and @heriadi have posted updates about activities on the Spanish, English and Indonesian Instagram accounts... * [**Primer reporte sobre la cuenta en Instagram, idioma Español de Steem**](https://steemit.com/hive-193637/@pollito22/primer-reporte-sobre-la-cuenta-en-instagram-idioma-espanol-de-steem) * [**The First Report of an English Steem Account on Instagram**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@o1eh/the-first-report-of-an-english-steem-account-on-instagram) * [**Laporan Pertama Proyek Pemasaran Steem Akun Instagram Bahasa Indonesia (steem.ind)**](https://steemit.com/hive-130030/@heriadi/laporan-pertama-proyek-pemasaran-steem-akun-instagram-bahasa-indonesia-steem-ind) --- ---

4. Press4Steem

@rexthetech of the @SteemWOW witness team has posted a progress update on the new Press4Steem plugin for connecting WordPress sites with Steem. The first version of the plugin, being jointly developed with @pennsif.witness, is due to be released before the end of the month... * [**Press4Steem Dev Blog (in association with Pennsif)**](https://steemit.com/development/@steemwow/press4steem-dev-blog-in-association-with-pennsif) --- @steemwow and @pennsif.witness are hosting the full Hivemind database for download for any witness running an API node... * [**Hivemind database dump available**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@rexthetech/hivemind-database-dump-available) --- ---

5. Burning Steem

@remlaps continues to track the impact of Steemit's burnsteem25 campaign encouraging people to set a 25% beneficiary to @null to reduce the amount of STEEM, which potentially will increase its value. In the past week there have been 929 _burnsteem25_ posts. The total burnt since June has now exceeded 176K SP... * [**Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary November 26, 2022 - Total burn estimates: 176,123K STEEM/SP and 63 SBD**](https://steemit.com/blockchain-metrics/@remlaps-lite/burned-tokens-rewards-and-inflation-summary-november-26-2022-total-burn-estimates-176-123k-steem-sp-and-63-sbd) --- ---

6. Cotina Fest 2022

Cotina Fest 2022 now has seven events taking place at different locations across Venezuela including Ciudad Bolívar, Barquisimeto, Carúpano, Aragua... * [**Estos son los Cotina Fest confirmados del 2022. ¿Asistirás?**](https://steemit.com/hive-188619/@cotina/estos-son-los-cotina-fest-confirmados-del-2022-asistiras) --- ---

7. World Smile South Africa

Project leader for World Smile in South Africa, @patjewell has posted a fundraising update for the planned purchase of an interactive whiteboard for Cedarwood Learning Centre. The project is fast approaching its fundraising target... * [**Weekly finance feedback - World Smile Project South Africa (Project 1)**](https://steemit.com/hive-153970/@smilesouthafrica/4paqy9-weekly-finance-feedback-world-smile-project-south-africa-project-1) --- Country Rep @patjewell is also running a writing contest to help raise funds for the World Smile project... * [**BLACK FRIDAY – Write and win!**](https://steemit.com/hive-153970/@patjewell/black-friday-write-and-win) --- ---

8.Communities on Steem

@ubongudofot has updated the list of active communities on Steem... * [**The Steemit Grandmaster #2 - Surviving communities for November, 2022**](https://steemit.com/steemit/@ubongudofot/the-steemit-grandmaster-2-surviving-communities-for-november-2022) --- ---

9. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem. There are 79 contests in the latest list with over 800 STEEM in prizes... * [**Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 26th Nov 2022 – Win 800+ STEEM**](https://steemit.com/contestalerts/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-26th-nov-2022-win-800-steem) --- @italygame run regular contests including Unforgettable Trip and Best User of the Week... * [**WEEKLY REPORT - N.113 - Italy Community Updates and other Info/ REPORT SETTIMANALE - N.113 - Aggiornamenti della Comunità Italy e altre informazioni**](https://steemit.com/hive-184714/@italygame/weekly-report-n-113-italy-community-updates-and-other-info-report-settimanale-n-113-aggiornamenti-della-comunita-italy-e-altre) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.18	26 Nov '22 8.47pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00001092 BTC	26 Nov '22 8.47pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#259	26 Nov '22 8.47pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.08	26 Nov '22 8.47pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	132,653 / day	26 Nov '22 8.47pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	274,591 / day	26 Nov '22 8.47pm UTC

Also check out @morpheussa's blog for regular statistics about activity on Steem. --- --- This is #473 (26 Nov '22) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif ]