SteemPeak DApp Review - Steem Front-End for Power Users!
The current media landscape has been changing immensely, due to the wide availability of ways for regular people to publish their own inner thoughts into the world. Social media and traditional blogging platforms were the first step in this direction and now we're seeing yet another revolution with the creation of decentralized media platforms.
SteemPeak is a front-end to the Steem blockchain, which allows users to perform highly technical tasks with the click of a button. As far as decentralized applications go (DApps), it offers one of the more polished experiences to users for interacting with the Steem blockchain.
Truth be told, SteemPeak is a hidden gem among all the different Steem user interfaces. Its user-base is still fairly small, but is showing consistent growth when you look at their usage statistics on State of the DApps.
Getting Started
To start using SteemPeak, you will need to create an account on the Steem blockchain. You can easily do this by clicking on the Signup button on the Steempeak website itself. There you can choose from 3 different options to create a new account, I recommend creating a new Steem account through SteemNinja, since that will take the least amount of time and will immediately give you a 15 Steem Power delegation to get you started.
Of course it is also possible to create a free account on the Steem blockchain, but free accounts need to be approved first, which could take quite a lot of time. Creating a new account through Steem Monsters might be a good option for you, if you are looking to play the Steem Monsters trading card game on the Steem blockchain.
SteemPeak's Features
Content Discovery
Discovering interesting content on the Steem blockchain has never been easier. SteemPeak offers you a wide variety of ways to find exactly the sort of content that you enjoy consuming. Take a look at the Explore section on SteemPeak, there you will the content that's currently popular on the Steem blockchain.
You can use the sidebar on the left (1) to look for popular topics that you're interested in, you can also search for topics that aren't displayed. When you click on a topic (or add one yourself), you will see all articles that are categorized under those topics. Clicking on the star icon next to the topic title (2), will add that topic to your favorites (3), for easy access in the future.
There's also a wide variety of filters you can use on the Explore page, the power of those really come into effect when you're following a lot of different people & topics. Following someone is easy, you just click on their username and you will see a Follow button in their profile header.
Content Creation
This is where SteemPeak really shines, their post editor is incredibly intuitive and has a lot of functions that post editors on other Steem front-ends do not have. I'm currently using their post editor for writing this post and I've noticed that I'm saving quite a lot of time, thanks to the side-by-side view of my post editor & the post preview.
At the bottom of the post editor, you also have some functionality that's specifically targeted at power users. You can add beneficiaries, who will receive a percentage of your post payout and you can also save your entire post as a template, so you can save your formatting for future use. With the addition of Advanced post options, you can even publish your post under a different author or hide your post from appearing in your blog and follower's feed.
Wallet
The wallet page on SteemPeak offers a bit more functionality compared to the default wallet on Steemit. You can easily delegate Steem Power from within your wallet and you can also see which SteemEngine tokens you hold. It's a bit sad to say this, but SteemPeak's wallet is also a lot less buggy than the official Steemit wallet. You can easily view all past transactions and everything just feels a lot more snappy.
Settings
The number of tweaks that you can perform to change your experience on SteemPeak is nothing short of amazing. When you go to your account settings, you'll see that you're able to completely change how SteemPeak looks and performs. Most of these settings are only available on the SteemPeak DApp and they're part of the reason why I'm referring to SteemPeak as the Steem interface for power-users.
How does SteemPeak stack up against other media DApps on Steem?
Room for Improvement
SteemPeak would be even more amazing if there was one single page where all the functionality was explained. Currently, new users are kind of left to fend for themselves and have to look up certain functions via Google in order to find out how particular things work. It would be an improvement if there was a bit more information on their FAQ page, especially with more details about the different functions of SteemPeak. Also note that the FAQ page itself was a bit hard to find, since it's located in the About section when you click on your username.
Also, for all the different settings that they have, I would have expected that I would have been able to change how the post rewards are displayed. I personally just want to see the Dollar values of posts by default and not the STU (Steem Token Unit) values. I was unable to change this in the settings.
Conclusion
SteemPeak is a great interface for the Steem blockchain and I am going to be using it as my default interface in the future! Compared to other Steem front-ends, such as Esteem/Busy/Steemit/Etc, SteamPeak looks a lot more polished and intuitive. Some of the functionality that SteamPeak has, I've never seen anywhere else, that alone makes it the best front-end for the Steem blockchain in my opinion!
I have no other choice but to give SteemPeak a 5 star rating, as it's one of the finest media DApps I've personally ever used!
Great Review we love it!
And if you have any suggestions on what new users may be confused about PLEASE let us know.
We want this not just to have the most features but our original and other main goal is to be the MOST INTUITIVE INTERFACE.
Right now until steem communities comes out (hopefully soon) we suggest letting us know on discord where a new user may be confused.
I have been using it for a while and it is a powerful front end, I agree with the idea of one page to learn out how to use it all, some features O only discovered by exploring or by accident
Haha yeah it seems like we have a lot of those features that people had no clue existed. I kind of like it that way... keeps things exciting.
I get what you mean make sone explore the site from time ot time to see what is available :)
Its great that there are now more ways on to the STEEM blockchain than ever. I haven't used 'peak' yet as I'm more comfortable with the older methods.
It may be shameful to ask, but do they provide any incentive for their interface at all, votes etc.., do they take a cut of the post value?
Can you remember a long long time ago.. when steemit was down.. we had to use either busy or steemitstage. Wonder if the latter still exists?
They do not give out upvotes, but they also don't take any cut from your Steem posts. I've had a talk with @bozz yesterday, about the fact that you're possibly losing money by posting through esteem.
Esteem takes a 10% cut and generally upvote around 50 or 60% of your articles, with their upvotes being worth only around 0.6 - 0.7 STU, it doesn't compensate for the cut that they take on those other posts that don't get upvoted.
Oh yeah, I do remember Steemitstage, haven't looked at it in a while. It doesn't exist anymore apparently.
It seems bad talking about that but we have come to expect some kind of incentive now for posting...
I use busy now and rarely use surfer as my posts are getting more now than they used to. That way I get a little.
Saying that eSteem have been good to me and I cant remember a time when the didn't vote my post.
busy AWAYS vote but you can only use them once per 24hrs. You need to use the busy tag AND post via their dApp.
You may have noticed the larger accounts that get bigger rewards all use busy.
Nice review! I know we have been talking about different interfaces in Discord and those conversations have definitely led me to be searching for something new. I will have to give SteemPeak a close look in the coming weeks to see if it is something I can see myself migrating to. Great review!
Great review! I thought you had changed into a dark theme convert! Enable that dark theme...
Very nicely laid out review and great information. I use Steempeak as my main interface with STEEM, and I love it!
I use it occasionally, trying Partiko for a month now, but I never fully discovered or fully used everything steempeak has to offer, but will give it a proper look next month.
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