To me, Ecency is the best front-end here on Hive. Topping it all up is the availability of a mobile app which makes blogging and engaging a buttery smooth experience. Honestly, it is a app I have very little to complain about - it is fast, it is smooth, it is intuitive, it is responsive, it is just everything desirable from a frontend.
Sometimes I even wonder why a lot of persons still don't use Ecency as compared to other frontends, if I had my way, I would engage in massive marketing for the Ecency frontend.
Regardless of how much I love the app, the truth is that there is no perfect product, and one thing I love about the Ecency team is how hard they work constantly improving the product and making the experience better. It feels as if a fortune-500 organization is behind the product. Still, here are my few gripes about the app:
One
The option to purchase Ecency points using Hive token was removed, I really don't know the motivation behind this, but I didn't like it.
Where I am from - Nigeria - international purchase through app stores is a pain as our credit and debit cards are usually censored against international transactions. So, when that option was removed, it was a pain and it just made it difficult to obtain these points.
I think the @Ecency team can do something simple to help out by providing a rich-list of willing retailers who would accept P2P, or bringing back the option if it won't hurt their business.
Two
The second thing is not gripe per say, just a wish. I wished Ecency treated its app user better with some sorts of autovotes/or better point rewards system. It would definitely encourage more engagements and more app retention, and with more user retention, trust me, there would be an endless monetization avenues.
Ecency already have an edge over other frontends, with it being the only I know that has a solid and functional mobile app. So, just configure the app to be more rewarding, and I would try as much as possible to onboard at least one user each week, and with more users, the Ecency team can figure out more monetization opportunities.
The team can set-up triggers and yardstick to a type/form of content that would receive some more rewards. Or instead of more rewards, adjust the points rewarding system to dish out more points on per engagement basis.
I think that's all I've to share. Thanks for the opportunity by @Ecency support & @Ecency-star
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Honestly Peakd is a great Dapp too, the primary benefit of Ecency is their reward point, but for wallet Peakd is more smooth.
Yea. I can't agree less. PeakD is a very solid frontend, with lots of features. My main attraction to Ecency though remains the ease of blogging from my phone with their app. To me, nothing beats an app experience, no matter how well the web page has been optimized for mobile.
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Yeah I love the Ecency app too, I think being able to write and especially read content and comment from mobile is such a great advantage over the other frontends. I'm usually away from the house a fair bit, so it helps to stay active on here while away.
Also, yeah, you bring up a great point about the Ecency rewards. I very seldomly get any upvotes from Ecency, unless points have been used, which I rarely use - I mainly use points to promote posts, as I find it is far better for engagement.
I remember about a year and a half ago when I first joined, Ecency would be giving out some good upvotes of about 5-10 Euro, now it seems to only be 1 Euro on the rare occasion an upvote comes in.
I have no idea why that is; posting from Ecency, using it, and tagging it doesn't seem to help either.
Maybe, they're just trying to save their voting power to upvote people who redeem points for votes, but if that's the case, maybe they should have an Ecency.Curation account, that could solely focus on natural curation of the community.
Rightly said friend. The Ecency team needs to attract more engagements. If I can guarantee my friends that for each post with some specific quality requirements, they are sure of $1 of upvote, they would flock into Hive through the Ecency app and contribute greatly to the ecosystem.
However, I can't fault their model too much, as I am sure it is a product of some intelligent choices/decisions, even if there are definitely lots of rooms for improvement.
Thanks @killerwot for reaching out!
Ecency account has a low RC. And I think it is one of the main reasons why they reduced the upvotes.