TUDA's Initial Experience with Steemit

in #steemit6 years ago (edited)

Hi Steemians,

Team TUDA has officially been writing posts on Steemit for the past 20 days and would love to share our input on our experience so far!

Steemit Experience
We have had wonderful support from so many within the Steemit community. Would love to especially say thanks to @steemiteducation for all of the aid so far! It's truly been a blessing to get involved in the community in such a short amount of time.

Team TUDA has really been reading as much material on Steemit as possible for the past few months (ever since we officially decided to adopt the SMT protocol for our underlying basis of our platform). We recently read a great post from @timcliff titled "It's time to start paying attention to Steem". While there will always be faults to any platform, it's such a sigh of relief that there is a great team to constantly upgrade the service for the better and to truly listen to the input of the users.

One of the most important aspects of building a really good community is communication. Team TUDA really believes that the best community will resolve down to making sure that all communication on the platform is smooth and all aspects of the communication is very easy to use. For a great community to evolve, there must be two channels of communication within the platform: 1) dialogue-form; and 2) forum-form.

Our initial experience with Steemit is that the "forum-form" is well-done. All of the crucial aspects are deeply ingrained in the blogging service. The "dialogue-form", not so much.

What do we mean by "dialogue" and "forum"?

Dialogue-Form
Dialogue is the ability to just have a casual conversation with any other user on the platform. The best way for this to occur is to imitate an in-person conversation as close as possible and therefore, it must be instantaneous. This occurs ultimately through video chatting, audio chatting, or text chatting in today's day and age. What we have seen is that Steemians release wonderful posts on Steemit, but then move the dialogue to other platforms such as Discord. I'm not here to diss Discord in any sense. I also use Discord, but the platform experience flipping back and forth between Steemit and Discord is not very smooth. They are two distinct platforms with a completely different user experience because they are not aligned with the same future vision amongst the two core teams.

Forum-Form
The forum is Steemit's strong suit. Before Steemit, our team has been looking at all of the other great platforms out there: Reddit, Facebook, Quora, etc. The forum, in our aspect, was a way of communication, where a complete thought was to be made without any interruption. A person writing a forum post wants to lay out his whole thought process and the end reader would read the whole post before writing a response. As such, instantaneous communication is not crucial.

To build a long-lasting community, Team TUDA believes that one cannot live without the other.

I'm sure that the Steem team is also aware of this, and hopefully will look into creating a way to rectify this issue. Team TUDA is resolving this issue as we are a platform using blockchain technolog, but we are not 100% wholly dependent on the blockchain for all of our functions.

Just food for thought. Always rooting for the Steem project!
Team TUDA

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https://www.tripsavvy.com/grand-canyon-day-trips-1678102


Here are a few links that might be useful:
TUDA's ICO homepage
TUDA's English Whitepaper
TUDA's Korean Whitepaper
TUDA's Chinese Whitepaper
TUDA's Android Application

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It has been great having you ere on the platform as well. It is nice to have a group that is also dedicated to promoting education and educational discussions. I agree with your comment about discord. I think what has happened over time is that discord had become a promotional avenue for people to attempt to draw attention to posts. It can be so incredibly difficult for people to get any traffic on their blog and they are looking for any way to lure in new followers. This has turned into exactly what you said, the discussion is happening on discord rather than on the Steemit platform. Comments are how we build relationships and discussion on Steemit but that is tough to do when that is already happening on discord.