Feature wise, busy blows Steemit out of the water, even if I do prefer having a save draft button for instance. It's still nice to have the drafts be saved for the following day.
I used the slider for a while before I had 500 SP to try to make my voting last longer. Sadly, it didn't really matter that much. I can see why Steemit chose not to go with a slider until reaching Minnow status. However, it did help psychologically for a while to keep me interested, and then it pretty much pushed me to invest some money so I could up the SP that way.
The one thing that I don't like about busy, which keeps me from using it more other than when I have more than one story I'm trying to write, is the use of space on the creation page. The preview font is way too large, and so it just takes more time to scroll through, checking to see if everything is formatting correctly. It's probably just me. I like being able to scroll down through my stuff on Steemit and also keep my text box there to make whatever corrections I need to make.
Yes indeed Busy is the condenser that Steemit should be with all its features and functionalities. The notifications and the bookmarks are a great feature.
I really wish that Steemit had a way to see all the posts per month so that its easier to go back to posts rather than searching it or scrolling all the way down.
Knowing now the things about the dust threshold I kinda regret all the superficial votes I gave to people that I thought was rewarding them :(
So there was a purpose of making sure it was 500 Steem Power before that slider was available. Although even at 500 SP you will need a 20% vote weight to give a 0.02 percent upvote for acomment.
Yeah that I agree with you that it takes along time to scroll down especially if its a long article. Although now I use Hackmd.io first then just transfer it to busy.org.
re: superficial votes
In my opinion, it's the thought that counts. It's not your fault or anyone else's that the code is what it is, locking you into SP that really doesn't allow you to vote much in the first place, and then burning that vote because it doesn't hit the dust threshold. Knowing what I know now, I'd probably do it all over again, and maybe get higher SP sooner. It's a courtesy to leave something, and maybe that can be done a little more strategically as far as comments with no upvotes, but posts will mostly have something on them.
At any rate, there's too many bigger things here to sweat than to sweat this, I think.
It would be great if Steemit or busy had anything for browsing older stuff easily. It's really dumb that they don't. Have you seen the UI that UX Yeti is putting together? Sweetsteem? If he can get that done, I think it'll have all kinds of things that we'll like. Unless this communities deal drops first and changes the interface anyway. :)
Ux yeti is awesome and the things he is suggesting as well as specific condensers for Communities is top notch.
He recently joined steem dev so we might see a lot of his ideas done in the platform .
I wasn't aware of him joining steemdevs (not like I'm in the know, though). When did he do that? I hope that gets him the access he needs then. What does he have going with regards to Communities? Man, I thought I knew what was going on, but you seem to have an inside track. It's discord, itsn't. (Shakes his fist.)