Engrave is a blogging plaform using Steem blockchain. Essentialy it allows you to create blog posts published on Steem blockchain, but also provides a customizable frontend and a possibility to connect with your own domain. Setting it up took me maybe 5 minutes, or even less.
Let's test couple of features and how they look after publishing. For writing, Engrave uses Markdown. Results can be viewed here
Header
Apparently you can write
Headers of different sizes
Just as you would normally expect
Image
Apperently you cannot simply upload an image using Engrave interface. That's a shame.
Code
I'll probably want to inser some code snippets. Let's see how they look:
int foo(float bar) {
return 123 * bar;
}
Maybe inline will work like this?
Quotes
That's a quote
Links
You can test it all yourself at Engrave webiste
Table
Sample table
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Text | Text |
Conclusion
Those are some points that I came up after setting up this blog and trying to post an article. The list definetely could be expanded with more experience in using this platform.
Pros
- Quick and easy to set up
- Clean interface
- Can be easily linked with Google Analytics
- Side by side editor looks ok
Cons
- Only 3 themes available with no customization options
- No way to quickly upload an image
Edit
Since the post is getting unexpected attention some additional thoughts:
Look after publishing
Nice and clean if you like minimalistic style
Blockchain synchronization
It took some 5 minutes after clicking "Publish" before the post became visible on the blog itself. However it was added to Steem blockchain instantly.
Spellchecking
I just noticed that Google Chrome spellcheck is not working in the editor :/ So sorry for any mistakes I may have made.