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RE: Columns for Steem is now on Github, Open Source under the MIT license
Hey this thing rocks. Luck wanted I was having the exact same idea few days ago. I just gave you a tip with @utopian-io. We'll be happy to support the development further.
Thanks so much! I'll be sure to check out Utopian tonight, would be great to find some new developers (or even better designers, since that is my weakest area) there that want to help improve the app going forward and make some money with their contributions.
As for the general multi column idea, yeah, I thought this would be way more popular, Tweetdeck for example was the number one third party app back when Twitter allowed that with a market share of 16%. I wrote a cross platform desktop app like it years ago for another social network and that quickly became one of the top 10 apps in an ecosystem of 400 apps, but so far it never seemed like many people have used Columns for Steem. Back when I released it another developer contacted me who also made a similar app and was also surprised it didn't gain that much attention.
It's hard to get exact numbers since I don't collect any stats (and I don't want to, 100% privacy guarantee is a great feature to have) and it's also available decentralized on IPFS, but I believe there are only a few dozen people who use it daily. Could be because of the lack of exposure, that just not many people have heard about it yet, or maybe because right now the focus is on reading since I haven't implemented posting and voting yet but what people really want out of Steem is the posting and voting because that is of course what helps you earn a living, that's definitely the next thing on my todo list. Would be cool if it does finally become popular with some more work :)