Happy new month folks! February wasn't even here at all!
Anyway, It’s the first day of a new month and in the spirit of firsts, I’ll like you to try something new. Sometime last year, I found something very exciting and promising and in my own little way, I wrote about it here and I've been using it ever since. Yes it's something you can use!
I must say we've come a long way from the very buggy early days to this present moment and I'll like to invite you to come join in the fun. It has taken several months to get to this point.
What Is Busy.org
Busy ( @busy.org ) is an Open-Source social network and communication platform built on the Steem blockchain with a focus on providing a user-friendly interface. It can be seen as an alternative to Steemit but not a competitor. In fact, both teams (Busy and Steemit) have been working together on some projects. After all, the goal is to make the Steem blockchain more valuable.
In this post, I’ll give you three very simple reasons why you should use busy.org throughout the month of March.
User Experience
One of the goals of the Busy team is to find ways to make your browsing experience faster. Busy cares about you and this is always evident in every feature that is released. Busy.org is not only a good looking app but it also boasts of having the best UX (User Experience) on the Steem blockchain. In the past month, every time I used Busy, two other B words come to mind; bliss and breeze.
Bliss : perfect happiness; great joy.
Breeze : a thing that is easy to do or accomplish.
Busy's ease of use and smooth experience always brings great joy my way and I'll be the meanest person on earth if I don't tell you about this. If for no other reason, you should at least try it out.
As a part of providing the best User Experience, Busy makes it easy and fun for new users to hit the ground running when they do join by assigning little tasks for them to accomplish instead of leaving them feeling lost in this sea of whales, dolphins, minnows, and planktons.
Isn't that cool? 😎
Love Dtube?
Many times you open up posts to read and then find out there's a dtube video. You're so eager to watch the video that you click on it and another window starts to load. Sometimes, this can be very annoying because if you live where I live, that might just mean another 5 minutes page load time and then when you're done with the video, you have to click the back arrow to return to the original post.
With Busy however, that won't be happening as you can watch dtube videos without having to load up yet another browser window. This is made possible by the development of the dtube video player as part of the busy.org interface. So you get to watch the video in the post just like YouTube!
Awesome!
Notifications!
How many different apps have you had to download just to keep in touch with the community? Do you even know there are apps that notify you when you’ve been mentioned anywhere on Steem?
With busy.org, you do not need any extra app because your notifications are delivered to you right there. Now you can know who followed you, replied you, mentioned you in a post or a comment, reblogged your post, made a transfer to you and above all, clicking on the notification takes you straight to where the event happened.
Now you have no excuse to miss anything!
There you have it!
Busy.org is awesome, and not just because I'm saying it. You should try it out if you haven't. If you have, share your thoughts in the comment section.
Your post is informative. Heard about busy.org before but wouldn't have given it another thought if not because of your post.
The last time I used busy.org was when Steemit had huge stability and performance issues (5-6 months ago?). So after reading an article about the new busy.org, I decided to give it another try the other day. I was literaly blown away by all the improvements the team has made during the last several months! What impressed me most were the working notifications and the possibility of seeing who has mentioned and followed me.
So, yes guys - you should give busy.org a try! @fisteganos - thanks for sharing this.
Maaaaaan! I'm so going on busy.org
The notification factor got me!
Busy, whenever im not on dsound or dtube, they are the frontend i try to use, amazing , what got me is the notification that came on recently.
Good one gee.
Mind me not, my VP is low
Wow.. Thank you for sharing this Fi. Last time I used busy.org was last year. I didn't like what I saw then but it's definitely dope for me now. I live in a place where the network connection is always bad during the day. And it seems so fast using busy right now.. And the notification too...
Busy.org is definitely one of the best apps in the steem blockchain. Aside from what mentioned in the article, you can also get an upvote from @busy for your post. So there's another reason to use Busy.org though one need certain number of followers and vest to get that upvote. But if you're an active author it's not difficult at all. As a constant user, I highly recommend using Busy.org. Thanks for the interesting article @fisteganos
Hey @fisteganos, great post! I enjoyed your content. Keep up the good work! It's always nice to see good content here on Steemit! Cheers :)
Thats bro
ah! never knew about it o.. thanks for the information@ fisteganos
Now you know!!! 😁
Yaaaayyy.. No wonder you wore the Busy Tshirt at the meet-up. Lol.. I've actually been using busy.org to post and I can see the new development(notifications). Thanks for more updates on this @fisteganos
Lol. I've always been a fan of busy. It's not every time you find something so beautiful and also functional at the same time!
Yea right. Good morning Fi @fisteganos
One thing I Love the most, is the fabric that it has word count, a better preview interphase and also good look with the style and designs
Yeah the word count! It sometimes pushes me to keep going as I might have set some target for myself. Say I looked down and saw "655 words", that could propel me to keep pushing and try to hit maybe a thousand words. So yes, very useful!
That's an edge honestly, I really love it.
In summary, Busy is just busy making the Steemit ecosystem better.
When I saw a post about busy sometime last year it's been busy.org all the way.
Not competing with steemit.com like you stated.
I use the two simultaneously most times
Wow, just got to know about the notifications, it is really nice getting to know this! You dropped a Good information...
I love the notification option on busy, its a good innovation
Busy.org is all in one then if all these features are all working fine. Since it's coming from you, maybe I should sit my ass here and explore. I post with busy.org even my post this morning was done through busy.org but I never knew about the extras you highlighted.
I agree they have a good UX.
I will be checking for the notification part.
Thanks for educating me on this dear.
Stick with it! There are still so many perks I didn't touch on in this post 😁
Great content. Mentor me
Hahahaha, you got my follow notification, nice seeing my username there. I will have to start posting from busy.org more frequently now.
Thanks for the follow. Lol
Yeah you should use Busy more frequently, not just to post 😉
This is super cool. I am gonna download and install it right away.
But wait, do you real mean it is so easy to use, and not complicated?
It's not an app bro. It's just like steemit.com, instead, its busy.org
Nice and if you use the busy tag you usually get an upvote from their rather hefty account!
That too!!! 😄
Absolutely true, I've been using it for some time now and very convenient and easy to use....
I use busy EVERYDAY :)
💪🏾 yay!
wow, thanks a lot for sharing this. Informative as always, I'll definitely try it out.
You should!!! 😁
I recently started using busy.org and i must say, i really like it. I will continue using it. They also upvote you when you post through it yaaaay!.
Love the analysis bro. Cool one.
Used it today and i can already list a lot of things i like about it.
It's a massive upgrade.
Real cool Fi.☺
BOOM! That's what I'm saying! Love at first sight! lol.
All well said boss.I was using it at a time but i tried esteem also and then stuck with steemit, now that am reminded about it, I will try busy again, if especially for the notifications, busy.org is beautiful.
It's an amazing experience since i started using busy.org . it's user friendly with upgraded features.
Thank for the insight
You're welcome. Many people don't even know Busy exists.
Thanks Fi... I had given up on busy before because every time I tried to submit a post, it would give me an 'unknown error' message. I'm back on and really enjoying the experience. The notifications are the best!
Great to hear that it's working well now for you! 💪🏾
Please, I wanted to understand what it takes to get the busy.org bot to upvote ur work. I've been using for quite a while and I've never been upvoted by the bot.
The bot upvotes you based on your influence i.e based on the SP of your followers. You need a minimum of about 50 000 SP or 10 Dolphins following you to get a vote from the bot.
My father.... were i wan go get such s.p?
Bros, no vex o!! You fit follow me, make i know say remaining 9 dolphins left for Me to hustle. 😂