Steemit And Other Developers: Stop Tying Everything To The Blog Page!!!
I am not sure if the fault lies with the Steemit team or the developers who are producing applications on the steem blockchain that are being tied into steemit. However, there is a major problem brewing which needs attention.
This morning I was playing around with zappl and steepshot. Both are sensational apps in my opinion providing this blockchain with decentralized apps that further can penetrate the social media market. For those who are unaware, zappl is similar to twitter while steepshot is akin to instagram.
The challenge I found with both of these apps, and it might not be the apps, is that anything done on either app appears on the blog page on Steem. This cannot be. Quite simply, I sent out two zaps and one pic on steepshot and my page is already starting to look "messy". I can only imagine getting into a zappl conversation with someone or taking 15 steepshot pics and posting them. What will the blog page look like then? It will be a total carnage.
From my perspective, there are one of two ways this can go. The first is that the app developers (or steemit) decide to keep everything separate. This would model the non-blockchain world since Instagram posts do not appear on blogger and twitter entries aren't tied to reddit. Of course, this does negate some of the advantage of the blockchain although not much since it is still only using one account.
The second is to create an activities page. Let the blog page be what is actually posted on steemit (and even busy and chainbb). However, have the other developers tie their apps to the activities page so that it becomes a repository for all activity done on the blockchain. To me, this makes the most sense. People can search a user via the activities page to see all they did while also clicking on the blog page to see their direct steemit related posts.
Either way, something needs to be done if there is to be widespread adoption of these apps.
Please upvote this and rehive it to any developers you might now. They need to be aware of this issue.
Pictures from google images