Busy.org is the best Steem site for two reasons
Busy has now become the main site for me to access Steem blockchain for a while. Literally, they almost have every feature to be more superior than its big brother, Steemit.com. Page layout, price indicator, vote value for each voter, so on and so on. The overall experience in Busy.org is so positive that when I wanted to show some interesting articles to my other non-steemer friends, I use the link from Busy.
However, all the abovementioned improvement in Busy are not enough to drag me away from the habit of doing most of my Steem stuff in Steemit.com. I can live without the nicer UI but below are the two killer reasons that I must visit Busy.org at least a few times a day.
I can now access the damn Notifications, natively, for free!
I am going to make a serious complaint about the big and first front-end site here, @steemit/steemit.com. Your system makes everyone mention others easily with @, really cool design for another way of communication to ping each other. But the 'sending' part is what you only have taken care of, while totally abandoning the 'receiving' end. User who is mentioned has no way to get to know that they are mentioned!!
Yes I'm aware of third-party app like SteemData will achieve that but isn't that is too troublesome just to receive a simple notification? Some service like MinnowBoooster even makes the notification one of their Premium service for a fee!
A big hail to the @busy.org for nailing this fundamental feature that every social website should have delivered in the first place.
Finally I can access all the notification without going to other application, type in my username and search. We can now see everything includes:
- Who has shared/resteemed your blog
- Who has commented on your post
- Who has sent money to you
- Who has followed you
If God makes me decide only one Steem site can live, I would absolutely go for Busy.org just because of the notification.
Busy host image using IPFS
The text is forever stored on the Steem blockchain, but not our uploaded images. The only reason you can still view the 1-year old image of your old post is that the servers are still alive, and those image-hosting services are likely centralized. While the hyperlink in the post with format  stays true forever on the blockchain, the service it pointed at may be long gone after a decade. And the image portion of old post will forever stay blank, tragic.
In the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, decentralization is key. We decided to switch to our own distributed image hosting solution. It aims to be an alternative to our previous image hosting which was centralized and costly (Cloudinary).
In short, IPFS makes all the upload image on Busy stored in multiple locations in chunks. Single point of failure is eliminated. Our images have never been more secured on Steem. Just in case if you are not aware, @dtube is using IPFS for the video storing as well.
If you are interested to know more this amazing technology, visit the Official IPFS site and maybe give it a read of the whitepaper.
Busy.org 已经变成了我日常必来的 Steem 网页，我们姑且不论它比大哥 steemit 其他优胜的地方（UI实在是好看好用太多），就说以下两点功能已经足以让我离不开它：
- 终于有免费方便的 Notification 可看
终于可以一站式知道谁回复了，谁关注了，谁转发了，谁转钱了。作为社交网站这个最基本的功能居然由第三方的 Busy 搞定，Steemit 你惭不惭愧？
- 上传的图片使用 IPFS 保存
低价，高效，去中心化的网络，图片若干年后丢失的可能性大大降低。dtube 也是使用 IPFS 保存视频哦。
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If I had one problem with the current incarnation of busy.org, it's that it really, badly needs a Night Mode. Because of the choice of fonts on the platform, it's a pretty low contrast experience. As such, it's not a very comfortable reading experience for long periods of time for me, anyway.
Steemit's Night Mode may be the only remaining reason to keep using it, at this point.
Agree with you. I still use steemit because of its night mode.
And steemplus for additional functions. Ginabot for notifications.
We were all the same, diff tools for diff purpose. Cheers for Busy as they seems like integrating all useful stuff into one place.
Seems legit. May be the Busy team need to consider adding the night mode feature.
通知功能确实不错，但是对于IPFS我还是有疑问的。
IPFS理论上是去中心化的，但是如果上传的图片只有busy.org自己的node做了pin，而其他node没有做pin，假设有一天busy.org倒闭了，那上传的图片跟存在中心化服务器上的结果一样，还是会丢失的。
要想图片一直存在，那只能通过filecoin或者付费来让某些节点长期保持pin，这跟中心化服务器也没什么区别啊。
d-tube上的视频也不是长期保存的，我记得好像是1年后要付费才能保留。
这跟文章保存在steem上的去中心化是不同的。
说得好，毕竟IPFS 也还在试验阶段，filecoin 和 pin 的关系我也还没搞清楚。要知道不能储存大量信息如视频图片是区块链的最大缺陷，IPFS 可以很好的和区块链结合来解决这个问题。
到最后似乎就是所有图片都会碎片化的保留在 Filecoin 的矿工硬盘上。我还需要学习这块。
除了pin的问题，其实还有个网关的问题。现在的IPFS存储的图片视频，基本都是通过ipfs.io或ipfs.busy.org等网关呈现出来的，如果这些网关挂掉了，即使内容在多个node上还存在，页面上还是会显示大白框。
希望chrome、firefox等主流浏览器能够像支持http一样直接支持IPFS，DAT等分布式存储的协议，这样图片链接直接用ipfs://或dat://，就没有网关的制肘，真正做到去中心。
Firefox从59开始，开始支持几种去中心化协议，但是需要扩展来实现。
Extensions in Firefox 59
这样还有个好处就是我们可以自己本地（家里）建个IPFS node来pin自己的图片或视频（比如在树莓派等低功耗设备上），这样就可以保证至少有一个node会pin我们的图片，不怕显示大白框了。
看来你真的很有研究，我也该多看看了。
主要是前一阵对这些比较感兴趣，所以折腾了一阵:)
我们也在busy的基础上做开发，用户体验的确做得不错。
比老大哥好太多了。
Thanks for good information on this one, it is like an answer for my yesterday's post where I asked what is the difference between these two platforms. All the notification availability is a great improvment, I hop one day it will be working as easily also here on Steemit. Thanks again and have a good day!
Or you can switch to Buss like me. Glad that it helped!
It helps a lot with the notification. Agreed that fully! Just knew about the image storing feature too, that’s amazing.
Yeah feel so much more comfortable now when uploading my images.
I used busy yesterday and is really good
You should use it more often.
The notifications part is like the main concern of so many Steemians when it comes to layout and user preference.
Good share on busy.org. Thanks!
Notification is very important to all active Steemians I supposed. You are welcome buddy!
Yalo, last time everyday go steemd see who vote , now i everyday go busy.org enuf di
Busy won't tell you who has voted. But it is good enough to check for other notification.
Thank you my dear @fr3eze , in your notification screen shot my name is at top :)
Yeah it was you haha.
I'm yet to try Busy on my computer. I just tried on phone and it doesn't run like a native app like Steemit does. It just feels like I'm browsing a website. It does have some nice features though, like the notification so I may try it the next time I'm on my desktop computer.
Hmm? I access Busy quite often on my phone, the experience is at least on par with Steem if not better.