Components
In the draft section, a feature allowing auto-publishing posts should be added. It should consist of a calendar and a time-setting form. The feature would publish a post in the preferred time even if the author was offline at moment.
Proposal
Auto-posting is very convenient and Busy should be providing it. It requires minor changes in the draft site and figuring out how to allow offline posting. Auto-voting services work when the user is offline either, which means that SteemConnect can provide blockchain interactions with stored/saved posting key. Implementing website changes and setting SteemConnect up shall not take much time.
Mockups / Examples
Busy draft screen currently looks like this:
Besides of delete button, there should be a button for autoposting. Like this:
After clicking the button, a pop up where you set date and time should appear. Something like this:
Image source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41598292/gtk-time-picker-widget
After confirming date & time the auto-posting would be activated for certain post.
Benefits
Busy currently stores drafts, which is great, but it lacks a feature that would be appreciated by many users. Scheduled autoposting brings several important advantages, mainly for regular authors, who will save time. Busy currently stores drafts, which is great, but it lacks a feature that would be appreciated by many users. Scheduled auto-posting brings several important advantages, mainly for regular authors, who will save time. I am sure that I am not the only one who writes more posts in a row and then publish them as series. For instance, auto-posting allows publishing posts on the very same time every day even though the author is offline doing whatever he wants. The audience usually appreciates regularity, that is why magazines or TV & radio series are so popular. The internet allows to publish much often but posting irregularly bothers the audience. Blogs reflect that and almost every blogging platform offers publishing new content in selected time. Both Steemit and Busy lack such feature badly.
People, who participate in daily contests or write posts for certain occasions would also take benefit of auto-posting.
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Hi,
your suggestion is well described but it cannot be approved. The idea was already proposed and is not generally unique. You can see one old suggestion here, the difference is the location of the feature.
Busy team is also aware of this feature and when the version 2.3 was released, they made a public poll for the new features. Scheduled posts were listed among them.
It is from their Discord server 23 January 2017.
You can contact us on Discord.
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Well, I haven't found that suggestion while searching utopian for busy-related suggestion. Maybe the filter does not work properly.
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I used the search bar in Utopian with the query busy schedule post. I knew that it was already submitted in the past but I could find it this way.
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I've filtered all busy suggestions (https://utopian.io/search/ideas/busy) since I was not sure which particular word might had been used for auto-posting besides of schedule and I didn't find that. Now I see why. When I reach the end of loaded posts, it doesn't seem to be loading new ones but it is loading. I thought it was an end but it wasn't.
My fault, I'm sorry.
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@godfish, Contribution to open source project, I like you and upvote.
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