Since the very beginning of my Steemit journey, Steemit.com has served as the number one platform for me in terms of navigating and publishing posts on the Steem blockchain. The next best source of navigating Steemit has been the awesome @esteemapp by @good-karma. As awesome as Busy.org is, I have used it for posting just once in more than nine months. I would have kept on going on like that until the Busy v2.4 Release caught my attention. The features are too hard to ignore.
Image is designed via Canva.com and Busy logo and the banner are taken from Busy Gitbhub.
Since Utopian.io uses a fork of Busy's interface to gather contributions, it's not the first time that I am using the Busy editor, as I have published all my @utopian-io contributions using this very editor. It is amazing and I cannot emphasize its simplicity and ease of use enough. The provision of visual buttons to implement Markdown styling saves a lot of time. On Steemit.com, you have to create all the styles manually and it takes a lot of struggle.
Some Interesting Advantages of Busy.org
Busy.org is not created as a competitor to Steemit. It rather enhances the user experience and gives a very user-friendly platform for all of us to use. It is built on top of the Steem blockchain and is supported heavily by Steemit Inc. itself. Having said that, let me share some interesting benefits of using Busy.org which you do not get on Steemit.
The biggest advantage of using Busy.org for newbies is that you can manage your voting power. You can enable voting slider from the settings and vote dynamically (choosing vote % for every vote) or fix a lower percentage, let's say 25 %, to save your voting power while giving more upvotes.
The biggest advantage of using Busy.org for newbies is that you can manage your voting power. You can enable voting slider from the settings and vote dynamically (choosing vote % for every vote) or fix a lower percentage, let's say 25 %, to save your voting power while giving more upvotes.
When you post using Busy, and use
busyas a tag, you can get an upvote from the Busy bot. You need to have at least 50,000 SP worth of followers to get this vote at the moment and the vote strength depends on how much SP in totality is following you.You receive notifications about every activity concerning you. There's a notification bell which you can click to see all your previous notifications. Although I use Ginabot to get notified about events of my interest, having an inbuilt notification system is just great. Steemit does not provide such a system so far.
You can see your activity and even filter it. All your general and financial history can be seen in the activity page.
Busy now has an IPFS image hosting in place which is faster, more reliable and decentralized.
When you open another profile, you can see if the user follows you. You don't need to check the long list of your followers to see if an account follows you. I wish I knew it when I had to choose winners of my 15 Steem + 10 SBD giveaway contest.
While surfing on Busy.org, you can play Dtube videos without having to open the post, let alone open another tab for the @dtube link. It shows incredible synergy with which Steem ecosystem is going forward.
Synergistic Development of Steem Ecosystem!
On a side note, consider the synergistic development of Steem ecosystem from the following facts.
Steemit Inc. helped Busy in developing the notification system.
Utopian.io uses Busy's interface.
Dtube worked with Busy to implement IPFS image hosting and the Dtube player.
The biggest Steem investors like @transisto and witnesses like @blocktrades & @ausbitbank are among the biggest upvoters on all the developmental activities.*
I have always had a positive outlook on STEEM as a cryptocurrency and Steem as a blockchain. The reasons are obvious if you can see an air of cooperation among all the relevant players (investors, witnesses, developers, bloggers etc.) to steer the project further. My analysis of Steem as an investment and my big hopes for Steem in 2018 are based on the positive developments that the community always comes up with.
What Do You Think About Busy.org?
Have you been using Busy for a while? If yes, how was your experience? If not, are you going to try it? Let me know how you feel and share your experience in the comments below.
PS: A big shoutout for @fabien and @ekitcho for making Busy possible. The project is open source so there are a lot of contributors too; another reason Steem will flourish faster and become bigger than we can anticipate.