These are excellent ideas, @timcliff
Making Steemit go viral
More than a focus whales & voting , we have a winner if we can make it easier for writers to write, authors to author....on @Steemit with a level of writing/drafting functionality of at least Blogger level:
- Draft posts
- Embedding content
- A Steem this option, much like a Blog this app, for pure sharing of someone else's content on Steemit.
Then move on to Medium functionality: - Creating publications, not guilds or pools.
- Transparent content migration.
If the Steemit dev group can make Steemit's writing tools like Wordpress, more established writers & authors will move over to Steemit, with the Steem earnings, as the icing on the cake.
What say you? @ned @dantheman @dan
I agree with pretty much all of this. The more intuitive the platform's functions are, the easier it will be to get users to actually post content. It's not easy at first, especially without having the ability to directly load images.
I believe we will be getting the image upload feature in the next UI release. I saw a pull request merged in a few days ago.
(It's not a guarantee, but it seems very likely to go live)
These are good suggestions! There are a lot of ideas in the works regarding the UI and different tools to improve the user experience.
A lot of stuff like this is going to have to wait a little bit though until some of the fundamentals and major platform improvements are put in place.