RE: Why Do I Dislike eSteem App?
Good points...
Small Font Size:
We have this feature in our todo listSwitching Between Multi-accounts Not Seamless:
Switching account changes account's feed because that's different for each account but if post is in Trending or active, etc. it is always possible to find post or search for account who posted it.Too Sensitive Vote Slider:
Slider allows big users to cast vote with smaller percent, 0.5% for example.
We can improve that though...Instant Notifications & “Follows You” Indicator:
Activity manager is getting better with future releases where you can see your earlier notifications and follow up with each one.DTube Video Player:
It must have been Dtube's video player not supporting mobile devices well, but we are exploring their changesCover Picture:
eSteem, busy, steemit.com all uses same cover image api which means you should be seeing cover image from all apps if you set up from eSteem. If not, it must be bug, please report using utopian.Beneficiary Fee & Free Upvotes:
Beneficiary rewards support continuous development of the project with addon services. Upvotes are part of encouragement program you should be able to find post and read more about it. What kind of transparency would be sufficient? And please share a link to post if busy or other apps has similar examples. As for in case of Busy, its development is funded by Steemit Inc. while eSteem development is funded by community through regular posts, beneficiary and witness rewards not optimal but it works for small scale team, we are scaling team even more meanwhile try to keep sustainable business model. In short, there are differences.Synching with other devices:
Your bookmarks, drafts, uploaded images (image manager), scheduled posts are all synced accross different devices. You can be logged into two different devices with same account you should be able to see changes instantly. For now we have mobile app in production, we are very close to release our desktop wallet application which should give boost to PC lovers. Stay tuned for that! :)
Glad to note that the work is in progress on most of my problems. I hope the font size adjustment feature is released soon. This one itself can make this app usable for me.
And yes, you are right about DTube's video player. DTube and dLive need to work on their player to make it compatible with mobile devices.
For cover picture, I just noted that one of my accounts has got the same cover pic as on Steemit but rest of the accounts don't. Will try to make a post on utopian on it, if no one else has done it so far. I do know some more minor bugs. May include those too.
Thanks for a well detailed and informative response!
Oh and I forgot to write about the open sourced busy.org & busy.pay bots. Both operate on the same code with different parameters. Here is a link to busy.org bot's parameters where we can check how much vote weight we can expect from it:
https://github.com/busyorg/busy-robot/blob/master/events/vote.js#L14-L15