I have tried most of the condensers of Steem from the original one Steemit.com, then I also used the Esteem App for mobile created by @good-karma, the Steemgigs.org by @surpassinggoogle if I want to be hired or hire people for certain skills or services, Parley.io if I want Reddit style interface, Dbooks.org if I want to compile all my posts into chapters.
Of course, I used Dlive and Dtube and although I know of Steepshot but since I don't take much photography aside from food I don't use it that much. I have on another account use Dmania.lol and Zappl for shorter content.
There are so many applications and different uses being developed in the Steem blockchain. Now my personal favorite is busy.org made by @fabien . I started using this last November when Steemit went down a couple times and busy.org was the suggested portal to use. I have been using it ever since because of its interface and many features that I wish that Steemit had.
Bookmarks
Ever had that feeling that you really liked a post and know that you can use it in the future for example @carrieallen's very excellent 🌟ULTIMATE Markdown Tutorial🌟 so you either bookmark it in your Google or Firefox browser or you can use the bookmark feature of Busy!
Just click on the three dots on the upper right side of the post and click to save the post. When you want to look at save posts all you need to do is go to bookmarks on the upper left of your screen.
Activity Logs and Notifications
So you are the type of person that likes to know what happened to your account the last few hours and although there is steemd.com Busy also has a similar function that you can see your activities for the last few days.
Another thing it has is Notifications. Click on the bell icon and it will show you whoever made comments, followed or mentioned you.
Watching Dtube
It is absolutely genius that using the Busy Condenser you don't need to be redirected to the Dtube site as it plays there right away! Although in this version Dlive still goes to it site but I am confident that the Busy team will be able to do it the same way it did for Dtube.
Drafts
So you are creating your latest masterpiece and doing some research so you have multiple tabs open and would switch from the material to your busy.org blog when by accident you clicked on the close icon. Oh no! you are dead fret note because you can go to Drafts and see there a couple of the latest post not published is saved there.
Hopefully, it saved the latest there and you can retrieve it.
For good measure, I often delete already published drafts before I start working on a new one. Consider saving in a word document as well.
Edit Profile
Although it is pretty similar to the edit profile in steemit it has some additional features as you can add your other social media profiles and even your github to show in your profile.
Another thing that is cool with the Busy.org condenser is you can add your signature so that you don't manually need to add it everytime you create a post. However this only works if the person viewing your post is using Busy so if they are using a different condenser then it will be blank. Hopefully future releases may fix this.
Referral program
Now this is amazing as you provide a referral link to your friends and family that you invite to use Steem using the busy condenser and you earn 10% of what their posts get for 30 days. So you have the incentive to see them succeed in the platform.
Settings
Now, this is one of the main reasons why you want to use Busy.org.
Prior to you reaching 500 SP you will not have the capability of having a vote weight slider which to think of it is good if your SP is about 15-50 however when your SP is about 200 plus already it would be a good way for you to spread your votes more and have the capability to adjust it to 30-50% at a time.
This is a good way to maximize your curation rewards.
BONUS ROUND
There is another reason to use Busy.org. It has its own upvote bot and if you use the Busy Condenser and add the #busy in your post you will be getting an upvote from busy. It was written here Introducing @busy.org, the bot that rewards your influence
How does the bot work?
The bot will upvote you based on the weight of your followers. The more influential followers you have, the stronger upvote you will get from the bot.
- To get an upvote, you need a minimum of 500 SP following you
- To get a 100% upvote (around 10$ value), you currently need 12 Millions SP total following you (25 whales).
How to get a vote from @busy.org?
It's free and instantaneous, you just need to:- post using busy.org (works on both version: v1 and the new beta)
- use the tag "busy". It doesn't have to be the primary one
- The bot upvotes maximum 1 time every 12 hours per user. (2 upvotes/day/user)
Put those followers to good use even if they have forgotten about you! All you need is to get to a minimum of 500 SP cumulative of all your followers. You would be getting a 0.06 percent weight vote which according to a witness actually uses 1% of a vote of an account. That is about an average of 16-22 cents for a vote every 12 hours!
Recently I have been able to get more people to follow me and break into a million SP total for all my followers so I got upgraded to the busy.pay upvote bot. It's 1 % upvote is $1.01 dollars which are not bad at all!
So the more SP your followers have the bigger the upvote value Busy will give you.
If you are interested to know your followers total SP and you have no access to SteemSQL you can make use of Steemdb.com https://steemdb.com/api/accounts?account=@username
Then scroll down and look under your followers mvest
Now unless you can compute mentally how to convert mvest to Steem you can use this tool http://www.steemdollar.com/vests.php
This is a great way to ensure that your post does not turn to dust especially if most of your post when you start off might not reach 0.02 cents. A 0.20 cents upvote is still nice.
There you have some of the reasons why I live using Busy.org when I write my blogs. It has tons of great features and is continually making updates to make the user experience better.
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so now I know why people are using busy org.... good post u got here! I really need to start using it soon.
by the way, my draft stays in steemit all the time unless I clear the cache.
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Yes it does, @asianetwork. It's one of my fav discoveries about Steemit publishing.
I wrote a post up on Monday, am not ready to edit yet, and it's just politely sitting there, waiting for me to come in and give it some polishing love. ;)
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Oh yeah it does but since I have on my settings to clear cache everytime I close a browser I need to have a better way.
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Thank you for the feature :) hope it gives people some information about Busy.org and how useful it is.
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busy org has a great interface and a lot of possibilities, I really love it.
I use it in 90% of my blog posts, other 10% goes to Dtube:)
You explained it very well all the benefits, nothing more to add.
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Hey thanks and I agree that Busy is very useful and the different things I listed would hopefully help other people decide if they want to use it.
Thanks for dropping by!
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I like Busy too, i have been using bsteem constantly recently. Are they related??
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BSteem is made by a different team but is also a condenser for Steem like Busy.
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Sir mav grabeh ang dami pa pala bukod sa steemit at busy. @steemgigs next ko eh. One at a time ako. Pero resteem ko na para once tapos nako sa steemgigs at added info mo dito sa busy in which I will just take a look every now and then at iwas kulit din syo sa chat. I do value your time din at pag may magtanong din I'll proactively send this link and just let them read. In this way, we'll be more efficient with our time and be able to do more important things and just exert less effort sa pag explain. :) Thank you for this post.
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Thanks man and it's ok to ask questions as I like answering people.
Yeah there are so many apps and condensers in the platform now so keep exploring and experimenting.
It's awesome that a lot of people are involved in making things more diverse and creating new projects.
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It's really important to make ourselves updated all the time and keep up with the rapid changes. The easiest way to do that is learn directly from trusted and brilliant minds like you. No doubt it's effortless you got a lot of people always wanting more posts from you.
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this is a very helpful nuts and bolts post thank you maverick. i'm now following you btw i got here from the engaging convo in another thread which happened to mention busy.org then happily just stumbled into this post;) you challenge my thinking i appreciate that
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Hey no problem I think discussions are very important on the platform.
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Let me start shifting! Haha
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hehe yeah use it!
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Thank you for your reminder and use busy the slider option is so nice.
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Oh yeah definitely try it as it is a great condenser to use.
I also forgot to say that if you watch dtube or dlive videos it will play it in the same window.
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I have seen Busy mentioned, along with Discord and several other sites in my short time here. I am assuming that Busy is owned by someone other than the developers of Steem? If so, when you sign up with them you are trusting them with your passwords that would enable them to access your wallet at will (or anyone who may hack them)?
Also, please forgive my ignorance here. If they are a owned by someone else, I assume you set up a different password with them?
I ask because I am wary of others getting my log in credentials to avoid hacks like happened with the trading bots on Binance a little while ago. Appreciate any light you can shed on this for me.
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Hey no problem at all and is teh reason why I wrote this. To help inform more people.
It uses steemconnect which means you are not putting your password there.
I have been using it for the past 5 months and is doing okay with it.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't busy.org take 20% of your post's earnings if you use that condenser?
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Ah no Busy is supported by Steem I ng and even received massive delegation.
esteem is the one that has a 5% cut and so is dtube at 25%
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Haven't tried busy.org out because of a traumatic experience from a site that is also connected with Steemit... But will try this one out soon because I trust your review...
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I have never had any trouble with it for the past 5 months and it uses Steemconnect so you wouldn't be entering your password.
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Wow very informative
Thanks im not that familiar yet in busy.org features
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Oh you should try it. Any long post of mine which are most hahahaha
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Thanks
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Busy is better than steemit thanks to all those features, but as I commented on another post, the compact view of the articles steemit provides in the feed is not available in busy for the moment.
And since I scroll my feed and the tags feed a lot, I need steemit compact view. But apart from this little thing, busy is certainly better.
Thanks for sharing mate because there were a few things I didn’t know. I will probably use busy more now, and keep using steemit when scrolling through the feeds
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True man when I do curation I often switch to Steemit because of the same reason.
It can be made into a situation.
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Wow! This is very informative. I would love to try this condenser!!!
Thank you, thank you. 😊
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Thabks indeed test it out
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Good thing I come across this. I use busy.org but I haven't explored it well. I like the draft feature so I can save what I have done and get back to it. Will the slider work even in delegated SPs? I only 60+ SP but I have delegated 350 SP.
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Oh yes it works for comments and posts as well as for delegated SP.
I only just recently graduated from redfish to minnow but since I had delegated SP I had access to the slider earliy
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Thanks lodi! I will check that feature now.
Congrats on your promotion lol!
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@MaverickInvictus,
I LOVE you!!!
Testing Busy.org is on my Happy Must Do list TODAY... the one I haven't recorded yet because I've been busy writing an overlong comment on your 'dust' post. ;)
And it has to be today so I can use it as an interim publishing platform until I get my 500 SP sorted. I hope its slider helps with comment in addition to post upvotes.
THANK YOU so much for writing this post. Have NOT read it yet since I have to go record, but it is JUST what I need to dig in to Busy more easily later. Blessss you!
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Oh yes the slider works for both posts and comments.
So you will be a able to manage more of your voting power. Remember to keep it at 75% -80%.
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Thanks, Mav!
I'm in Busy now. Input a post and ready to schedule it for Wednesday but I don't see that option.
HELP! ;)
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Oh there is no way that it has teh ability to schedule the posting of a post like in streemian were you can input a post and have it published on a a certain day and time.
You can however leave a draft and once you are ready you can go back to that draft and click to publish.
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Ok, great! Thanks for clarification, Mav.
I did go in to Streemian yesterday and put in the same post. Just forgot to look up the UTC time equivalent, so thankssss for reminder! Added to today's To Dos. ;)
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Yes, Thanks for reminder. It was back up to almost 70% earlier this morning. May have bugged that up since though.
Mav, how do I get the slider thingy when I'm upvoting a comment in Busy.org? I just went to a comment, clicked upvote, hoping it would bring up the slider like in DLive but it didn't and just voteddddd!!! LOL
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btw, @MaverickInvictus, JUST scheduled first post using Streemian and sent you a 'Thank You' via Zappl. ;)
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I am going to have to look into using Busy.
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Oh definitely as you have a couple of whales following you. The more SP your followers have the bigger the upvote.
Now how to score a couple more million SP to follow me. Who do I need to send naked pictures haha.
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oh my gosh....
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ahahahahahha sorry about that
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Looks like you found the first person to send them too. lol
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Bwahahahha
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Me too, @derangedvisions! Today, today, todayyyyy to test out its upvote slider thingy!!!
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On most days I am too busy to test out Busy. One of these days when things calm down I hope I can get the time for it. I have visited people's blogs on there before and the layout is nice.
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Yeah, I hoped to do it today. Tech issues with recording equipment caused first post delay and still have two more to go. It's now 6:26pm here in Jamaica, so may not be today, today, today. ;)
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Feature wise, busy blows Steemit out of the water, even if I do prefer having a save draft button for instance. It's still nice to have the drafts be saved for the following day.
I used the slider for a while before I had 500 SP to try to make my voting last longer. Sadly, it didn't really matter that much. I can see why Steemit chose not to go with a slider until reaching Minnow status. However, it did help psychologically for a while to keep me interested, and then it pretty much pushed me to invest some money so I could up the SP that way.
The one thing that I don't like about busy, which keeps me from using it more other than when I have more than one story I'm trying to write, is the use of space on the creation page. The preview font is way too large, and so it just takes more time to scroll through, checking to see if everything is formatting correctly. It's probably just me. I like being able to scroll down through my stuff on Steemit and also keep my text box there to make whatever corrections I need to make.
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Yes indeed Busy is the condenser that Steemit should be with all its features and functionalities. The notifications and the bookmarks are a great feature.
I really wish that Steemit had a way to see all the posts per month so that its easier to go back to posts rather than searching it or scrolling all the way down.
Knowing now the things about the dust threshold I kinda regret all the superficial votes I gave to people that I thought was rewarding them :(
So there was a purpose of making sure it was 500 Steem Power before that slider was available. Although even at 500 SP you will need a 20% vote weight to give a 0.02 percent upvote for acomment.
Yeah that I agree with you that it takes along time to scroll down especially if its a long article. Although now I use Hackmd.io first then just transfer it to busy.org.
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re: superficial votes
In my opinion, it's the thought that counts. It's not your fault or anyone else's that the code is what it is, locking you into SP that really doesn't allow you to vote much in the first place, and then burning that vote because it doesn't hit the dust threshold. Knowing what I know now, I'd probably do it all over again, and maybe get higher SP sooner. It's a courtesy to leave something, and maybe that can be done a little more strategically as far as comments with no upvotes, but posts will mostly have something on them.
At any rate, there's too many bigger things here to sweat than to sweat this, I think.
It would be great if Steemit or busy had anything for browsing older stuff easily. It's really dumb that they don't. Have you seen the UI that UX Yeti is putting together? Sweetsteem? If he can get that done, I think it'll have all kinds of things that we'll like. Unless this communities deal drops first and changes the interface anyway. :)
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Ux yeti is awesome and the things he is suggesting as well as specific condensers for Communities is top notch.
He recently joined steem dev so we might see a lot of his ideas done in the platform .
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I wasn't aware of him joining steemdevs (not like I'm in the know, though). When did he do that? I hope that gets him the access he needs then. What does he have going with regards to Communities? Man, I thought I knew what was going on, but you seem to have an inside track. It's discord, itsn't. (Shakes his fist.)
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To be honest, I still don't like busy because I feel it has too much going on. There seem to be some cool features, but my heart still goes to steemit.com for everything. I don't really see a compelling reason to use any other interface. I did post with busy for awhile but just got too lazy. I trust steemit.com especially for drafting posts. I did try to use busy and it failed to keep my draft. That feature needs to be patched asap. If you are following them and know that they fixed it let me know hehe.
Are the notifications reliable? Do you see what you've read or can mark unread?
Nice information about the site, did not know about their referral.
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Somehow now it is keeping the drafts you just need to remember deleting those that you already published as it seems to be keeping a copy of that even after you publish a post. So far it has worked for me.
As for the notifications yes it is reliable it even pops in the lower left side of your screen when you gain a follow, a mention of a comment hahah.
Yeah the referral is a nice touch there so you want to have the person you referred to succeed in the platform! 10% is huge especially if they get a curie vote hahahaha
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It's important to delete drafts because there seem to be a limit in how much memory it can store. Or is that just a bug? Sometimes when I make a post it will not post. A message will pop up saying I have reached the limit of storing drafts.
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I started seeing that message when someone complained that the drafts week not working so that might be a short fix gthey implemented a few weeks ago
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Oh, I see. So it was just temporary.
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This shows the tremendous work from @fabien. I didn't know some of these features like the bookmarks. Busy is making steemit much easier making the blockchain interesting. There is a lot busy has in stock for us, including a much needed upvote on posts of users who haven't got much audience. I can't wait to explore this feature more.
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Yeah indeed it a nice feature to get some support and if you get it to the level that it is a 1 dollar upvote then it is really nice.
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There are many benefits to using busy.org. The notification system is very nice. We can adjust the voting power. What's better than that!!!!!
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Yeah sounds familiar
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