Why I'll no longer be using Steemit...

Do not adjust your sets. I'm leaving.

I'm leaving Steemit. I've moved on to greener pastures, and not those imaginary clouds in the sky. Don't let the gravestone as an image fool you. I'm not dead, yet.

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The clouds in the sky, which I've migrated to, can be found over at SteemPeak.com

So what does that mean to you, my followers, and readers? Not much. You can still see my content on the Steemit.com interface, and vote / comment / interact like normal. It's like using dtube, or dlive, you log in with your posting key, and off you go.

SteemPeak is an alternative window into the STEEM blockchain, just busy.org

There's a number of reasons why I'm choosing to drive my publishing, commenting, and browsing onto SteemPeak, away from Steemit.

Reason the first:

The posteditor and interface is incredible, and so user friendly!

Reason the Second:

I get incredible, beautiful analytics of my blockchain activity, encouraging me to spread the love of my upvotes even further:

Reason the Third:

I get to see the impact of the vote slider in exquisite detail. An additional reason is that I can set a default vote weight for comments, that is different from that of posts.

Reason the Fourth:

Peak Monsters. A different way of interacting with SteemMonsters! You can buy cards in bulk, and view your collection in new and interesting ways.

Reason the Fifth:

Templates and scheduling.

With SteemPeak, you can schedule, and have templates at your disposal for those times when you've been prolific, or have some consistent content that you post, and you want to stagger this out so as to not abuse your follower's eyeballs with a billion posts all at once.

This would have been incredibly useful back when I was doing my "holotrades" series; but is now going to prove incredibly useful as I continue my series of playing through my entire Steam games library, A-Z.

Reason the Sixth:

Filters.

Not Instagram filters, or snap chat filters. Filters about data. You can use them in your wallet. You can use them in your activities. They're a fantastic way of exploring your block chain history.

Reason the Seventh:

The dark mode is just ... so pretty! (In case you couldn't tell from all my screenshots). Development is ongoing on the platform and the @steempeak team, and @jarvie, who runs the thing, are very transparent with updates.