Thank you for sharing your thoughts and concerns about Actifit.
I've gone through some of the comments already, and saw some responses aligned with what Actifit has planned, so I will try to respond to your inquiries/suggestions:hey @slobberchops,
- Actifit's mission is to get people to move, to become more healthy, by rewarding them on the Steem blockchain.
Although Steemit is a blogging platform, Steem does not necessarily have to be the case, nor Steem dapps. The current Steemit front end interface is unfortunately too cluttered and does not provide means of proper separation of content based on communities/dapps, which is why some posts could be a nuisance to users.
With hivemind, the anticipated change by Steemit, the promise is this will be resolved, which we believe will be quite helpful in this situation. We do have other alternative plans for the long run, it really depends how hivemind will eventually land.
We also already created our own front end for the sole purpose of displaying Actifit content. - Coming back to the topic of blogging, we do love to see enganging content from users, and hence for now the min 30 words requirement of posting via mobile, yet we are also planning on modifying the reward mechanism to add additional value for such rich content, along with other factors as well. A general change and improvement in rewarding mechanism is under works, particularly to better cope with the anticipated user base growth, especially after HF20 goes live and our ability to onboard people outside Steem environment in larger numbers.
- In terms of editing via phone, yes it could be a bit of a nuisance, although many are successfully posting great content via phone. Partiko app itself has been doing pretty good as well, and all content goes via phone. Yes we are working on enabling photo uploads from mobile, we should have that available soon. Most importantly you could also re-edit your post after posting it from the phone, and completely wipe the whole content if you do not like our template, and write your own. This is actually another solution to anyone who's not happy with the format, and who wants to avoid creating alt-accounts. We do recommend though including even short info about your activity within the post.
- Editing from desktop before posting does sound like a nice idea, we can actually consider that as a future functionality, so as you can login to actifit.io and continue editing your post.
Again, thank you for the post, and if there is anything I missed answering, please ask.
Thanks for taking the time to respond :)
I like the sound of that, I'm all for reading something substantial.
I hope so, this is the deal-breaker for me. Phones are too small to write anything substantial on. My wife runs a minimum 5 miles a day and this would entice her to use Steemit again.