In this posts I'll tell you my thoughts and current discovered bugs in eSteem.
First of all, some questions need to be answered.
How did you hear of eSteem in the first place
I noticed a lot of posts about an App called eSteem so I looked it up in the Play store and it looked nicely coded as well though I'm not sure about privacy tbh.
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What is eSteem exactly and what can you do in it?
eSteem is an App made by @good-karma where you can access Steemit.com and another site as a mobile app. Normally you'd need to use the browser to use Steemit.com but in eSteem it's right there and it's not an app where they just put the site in mobile mode no they coded the interface and other HELPFUL features!
Basically making everything easier and helpful for mobile users which is great bringing in more traffic so people use Steemit on their pc and phone now!.This is the startup of the app:
Nothing special but now we get to the nice part of this app the user interface or UI not a mobile site, no! A real mobile friendly view of Steemit.com!
As you can see the menue is filled with features that Steemit can learn from.
For example DRAFTS why do we not have drafts on the pc site?
Yea sure you can write something, close the browser and come back and it will be still there but this works only for one script and it failed sometimes for me making writing and saving text as drafts more like a game of hope.
Features that I LOVE aside from drafts and the UI is for example the editor!
The browser editor with the buttons is messed up completely.
Words get swapped out and merged into new sentences and sometimes the whole text looks like an Ikea Manuel (still love sweden!).
Here's the new editor:
Yes this is exactly what I'm writing right now and it looks great and works good though there's an issue which I'll write about later on.
Battery consumption well didn't tested it but my phone (6 edge) says 0% which I don't trust but don't expect a battery drain!
You even can adjust a vote-slider, something only people with 500SP can do but in eSteem you can still use it without 500SP! You can check wether you want to be notified when someone follows, mentions, Upvote you which are neat features.
Bug?
Yes, there's a pincode bug where you can access the App without entering the pincode by simply pressing the 'back button' on your phone (iPhones don't have a back-button so only Samsung, htc ...). Which is not okay because that literally means putting your bank card into the machine and when asked to type your pincode in you can just press back and still use their service. I cannot show how this looks like but I can show you the pin code entering screen:
So devs disable 'back button' when the user is in the pincode screen otherwise it's not useful to have the feature.Suggestions?
I suggest that when the user marks something in the editor and click on let's say the bold button then the marked text should be bolded instead of putting **bold** before the text. This would be incredibly helpful and effective and I really would like to have this features in the app as I don't see any problem (≈.Thanks for reading here's a .gif signature that I found very useful and don't forget to Upvote in order to make the Dev(s) notice my suggestion thank you so much.
> Quick huh?