Improving Steemit.com? Bugs, Bugs, Bugs

I don’t believe there’s much point in starting something new on Steemit when the foundation is riddled with bugs. For months, even the simplest tasks have been a source of deep, miserable frustration.

• Writing text, where the draft feature often fails to work.
• Uploading images.
• The immense difficulty of setting the slider to the desired percentage.
• The slider having a mind of its own, often jumping to 100% the moment you log in and try to cast an upvote, denying you the chance to adjust it.
• The tiny comment window, where you’re expected to type a proper response. On a phone, it’s only about four small lines, you literally cannot see what you are typing!
• The Wallet, which doesn’t function as it should! You might have to click "redeem Steem" 15 times; even if it eventually shows up in your balance, you often can’t even see it.
• Transaction history that either can’t be found or appears with a significant delay.
• The constant hassle of entering HTML codes to make a post look right, something I can’t even see on my phone! Unless, of course, the text ends up looking absurd, riddled with large, awkward white gaps caused by the alignment settings.
• Comments that fail to stay in the correct order, creating total chaos esp. of it comes to writing contests, a situation that only gets worse whenever a vote is cast on one of those comments.
• The slightest error in the HTML rendering the entire post unreadable.
• Hashtags that don’t work. The features intended to work under a post often don’t function or, if they do, only for a fleeting moment. As for those under comments, they don’t work at all in relation to other comments; at best, you might see another post that happens to use the same hashtag.
• posts and comments frequently showing after a delay.
• The inability to find one’s own posts is a major issue.
• For years, the inability to archive one’s own posts by topic has been a constant source of frustration for me.

Of course, one can find a workaround for almost anything, or at least something close to it:

• You could simply "vote" on comments you’ve already read and replied to, which would change the color of the hyperlink.
• You could create ten separate accounts and ten different communities to categorize the topics you write about, though this still doesn’t solve the lack of a search function, which is particularly problematic for those who have been active on this platform for years.
• You could archive all your own articles alphabetically in a spreadsheet, just so you’d be able to find them again!
• You could upload photos elsewhere.
• You could simply choose never to click "redeem Steem" and never pay out a prize to someone who participated in one of your contest in which case, it wouldn’t even matter whether the wallet feature works or not.
• And sure, for everything else, we could try logging into various other third-party sites or apps to see if the wallet, or some other feature, happens to work there. But the reality is that this forces users to input their private keys all over the place, significantly increasing the risk of being hacked, besides of all the extra time trying to do make something happen.
• And, of course, we could force everyone to buy a brand-new phone of a specific model, or a new laptop, and insist that everyone use the same browser just to get a piece of software to run, but is that really the goal?

I still miss an app like Peakd, or the much more user-friendly app Partiko from the past. Introducing something entirely new makes absolutely no sense, simply because there are already too many unresolved bugs, and as we know, adding anything new only creates more bugs and further issues.

Therefore, once all the afore mentioned problems have been addressed by the relevant parties, and here I am referring specifically to the one working on Steemit.com (as it is an open-source platform and carries the most intuitive name for outsiders and users alike), I would like to see the following features added:

• Archiving one’s own content.
• A search function for one’s own content.
• An option for automatic upvoting (useful for times when we are inactive due to unforeseen circumstances, allowing us to support others if we leave our SP in the wallet, rather than initiating a power down).
• An overview/archive of all photos one has posted.
• An engaging text-to-speech (read-aloud) feature capable of handling long-form content, which could make consuming such material much easier for many. There are numerous long-form story series worth reading, yet they often go untouched by users.
  The reasons for this vary: some people struggle with reading, have poor eyesight, experience eye strain or inflammation from staring at screens for too long, use small screens (like those on mobile phones), or are simply too busy with other tasks (listening to a story while doing housework or traveling is a great alternative).
• A simple, straightforward way to buy and sell Steem.
• Polls that actually work for everyone.
• The steemit.online shop started in the past and @greatketty planned.

It strikes me that the various sites and apps do not work together. A good example is that when I "resteem" something via one site, it doesn't show up when I log in using a different one, which is extremely annoying.

Perhaps it would be wise to start collaborating and to include all the existing extra features in a single index on steemit.com.
Surely that can’t be all that difficult, after all, we’re heading toward 2027!

_{16.10.26
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