So while steemit was having it's little hiccup, I started to experiment with busy.org. It is actually pretty good, I bet if I was forced to spend a bit more time there I would have grown to prefer it, but I'm back to steemit and loving it.

I'm just much more comfortable and natural with it. It's not perfect, but I'm willing to go along with it and hope it gets all fixed up perfectly. Maybe someone will take notice to the good features of busy and incorporate some changes. Incase anyone important ever looks at my blog I am also giving my own suggestions, which I'm sure are pretty much the same as everyone else's.

Source

BUSY.ORG

A lot of the feed navigation seams to very similar to the new changes from steemit, which make me think they are taking notice and maybe we'll see some of the other features come over as well.

The main nuts and bolts are very similar with most of the same buttons and menus, so it is very intuitive to make the switch.

It has two great features shown here on the profile page that I really wish steemit would incorporate.

First it has your posts and your reblogs/resteems sorted in different headings, this is great for the people who are reluctant to resteem since it really clutters up your feed. I think this simple change would lead the way to more bigger accounts sharing more minnows posts, I'm a bit ashamed to admit it but I know it would certainly make a big difference for me.

The second really great feature is that it shows your voting power right there on the page, so no third party sites, apps or plug ins to take a look.

The second great thing about it is the way the voting is laid out. I hear that everyone gets a slider there right from the start. I can't confirm this since I already had one, but that would be a pretty cool feature.

You can also expand the box of the people that voted on your to see everyone, it doesn't just show the first 8 or whatever it is on steemit. It also shows what percentage of vote they cast for you. This is a great quick check and once again eliminates the need for a third part site/app.

This is the last feature I really really like from busy. Is that there is a confirmation screen when you send transfers. It also shows the icon that that user uses for a quick confirmation. This would really help with sending transaction to misspelled accounts.

One of my complaints comes now, in that after you send the transfer your stuck on an external confirmation screen and you need to click back twice to get back to busy.org (big complaint eh).

Busy also seams to have a message features that I never started using, I know early on I really wished steemit had some sort of embedded messenger, but now that I'm on discord I am really loving the layout and community over there so this is no longer important to me.

Cons

Overall it's really slick, but I do have a few minor complaints.

I wish it had a preview when you are making posts. I always second guess my mark ups and formatting and it's nice to be able to give it a quick look down below.

I don't like the thumbs up voting thing. Mostly since I'm new there, I sometimes find myself unvoting and revoting posts, thus wasting valuable voting power. Steemit gives you a warning about unvoting and I wish this did too.

The last complaint is that there is no comments tab so I can have a quick peek at my comments. I don't use this often but do like it to be available.

My feedback about both

There is one feature I would really like to see on busy or steemit that would really be the deal maker for me and that is some sort of mentions tab. I really wish there was a better way to keep track of when you are mentioned in other peoples posts. This would be great and I think it would lead to more interaction as well.

I can't say I'm much of an expert at this stuff, but I certainly do have one serious steemit addiction and I do hope to see it continue to stabilize and hopefully incorporate some changes.

I would also like to apologize for my nauseating positivity, I should really be ranting about how long it took to fix and the fact so little changes have been make with the minor layout tweak recently, but I'm still hopeful for some exciting changes coming. I am also staying positive about the buying opportunity this presented with the value of steem dropping so low during all the troubles.

I hope for many exciting things to come and I'm here to stay!