Orca time!

diggndeeper.com (63)in #anarchy • 5 years ago (edited)

Yup, that's my picture.

I just had to do one more "milestone" tonight. I'm super stoked!

Even though I'm rather backlogged and under the weather, this is too big of a deal to me to not write about.

Tonight I grew into a baby Orca.

It's been my goal for the two years I have been on this platform. I don't expect to ever get to Whale, so that isn't really a goal. This is enough weight to help the creators I want to support anyway.

Yesterday was my two year Steem anniversary. It has been a fun ride and I hope this is only the beginning. I have had a few spells when I wasn't very active in posting, but I've been trying to curate pretty regularly throughout. This year I'm doubling down and trying to take my efforts here to the next level. My output is getting better and the way I'm building my website, I think things are going to continually improve.

It's a lot of fun. I really love working on this project and Steem makes it worth doing.

It seems so long ago, but I remember that in the beginning, when we only had Steemit, the challenge of putting together a nice post that that might take several sessions to write was an issue for me. I did it with a text editor most of the time. It worked, but it was kind of clumsy.

Boy, things have changed. Now I have integrated SteemPress with my website and I can do all sort of cool things like work on multiple posts at the same time, schedule publishing, synchronize after the publish and a bunch more. It's incredible and it's getting better every day.

I can't imagine what a few more years of development has in store for us.

Just look at all those apps and communities and games and stuff. There looks to be just about every media option and blockchain service imaginable and we are still only three years young!

Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://diggndeeper.com/orca-time/

#blog #orca #steem

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revisesociology (73) 5 years ago

Many congratulations.. that's a nice milestone!

Word Press/ Steempress do make a difference don't they!

Although I have found that if you write in the WP visual editor then switch to the text editor and then cut/ paste into steemit the formatting is pretty spot on... the only thing that doesn't translate is picture centering.

And then you save yrself the 15% beneficiary cut!

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diggndeeper.com (63) 5 years ago

Thanks!
That's a good point. Somehow that beneficiary thing slipped past me until tonight when I finally learned about it. That's pretty significant. All those features are handy, but I'm wondering if they are that handy.

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revisesociology (73) 5 years ago

I do like WPress - it's easier to make it YOURS with pages and widgets so there's a v.good reason for making that yr main site - it's also far superior if you need people to be able to navigate and use yr site (esp if selling stuff!).

I have a professional site I've now stopped using steempress with as I got paranoid about SEO, set up a second more personal and eclectic WP blog and was posting to steem from that but now I've discovered @ocdb I can get more of an upvote from that than from Steempress and no cut!

I'm not too bothered if my personal/ eclectic posts lack overall structure and navigability so sticking with pure steem and losing the superior functionality of WP is best for me personally, not professionally.

Bit long winded that soz, not that easy to explain!

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diggndeeper.com (63) 5 years ago

That makes sense. I've considered the SEO point and it doesn't matter to me as much as community and engagement.

What is @ocdb? I looked at the account and I can't tell what is going on.

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revisesociology (73) 5 years ago

Fair enough on the engagement stuff, my main blog is what I earn a living out of though - traffic is everything!

I blogged about @ocd recently, only just got my head around it myself!

https://steemit.com/steem/@revisesociology/a-positive-review-of-ocdb-and-why-i-ll-be-using-it-more-in-the-future

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diggndeeper.com (63) 5 years ago

That is really interesting. I went ahead and delegated a bit. We'll see how that plays out. Hopefully, someday I'll get whitelisted.

Thanks for the pointer.

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teutonium (62) 5 years ago

Congratulations! You got your orcahood and I got my minnowhood today! I'm sure that one day you will get to whale and I'll get to Orca, maybe not the biggest whale around, but whale is achievable for you, we are still very early in this space, we still have much more time and space to grow, in 10 years you will look back and see that this was the best decision ever!

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