The monumental shift has started
As I write this post from a blank slate on the brand new LeoFinance user interface, which is now in open alpha for all to test... I want to do some reflecting and share some of my thoughts after using this UI for the past 48 hours (I was in a little early).
First off - let me say this. LeoFinance will always have long form crypto/finance related content at its core. That's what this whole platform was built from, and that will never change. I'm still a heavy consumer of this content and always will be.
I started using the UI early yesterday and I immediately felt it. I logged in and saw the future of Hive. Even at its very basic form in alpha, before very many features are even available, the new LeoFinance is undeniably fast. It completely changed the feeling of using the platform, in many more ways than one.
When you land on the home page of the new UI, you immediately know what to do. There is no overwhelming amount of long form content thrown at you. There is a very straightforward setup. You can immediately start typing a Thread, without even clicking anything. This makes me think back to having to dig through the Recent feed for content that actually caught my eye. How different it was.
Just looking at the above 2 images, you can tell right off that everything has changed. It's hard to describe, but this feels exciting. It's obviously something we've had for a very long time on web2 systems like Twitter. But I've never seen a platform do short and long form content in this fashion. It's ingenious.
It makes me think about the long hours I spent trying to find something that actually interested me enough to think up a decent comment. I would sit and think really hard about what I wanted to say and make sure it was "meaningful". This isn't to say that nothing I say on Threads is meaningful, though. What I mean is... It's effortless.
This is what people want. They want it to be so easy it's impossible to get confused. They want to log in and know what to do right off the bat. You log in, you type, you send, and you comment/vote. If you're into reading longer stuff, you can. If you're not, you're already good to go. Send those 50 Tweets a day on Threads instead, and you just might earn some LEO, HIVE, HBD, and even some GM on the WAX blockchain.
There's something incredibly addictive about seeing those few cents roll in from interacting on Threads. I have a feeling people are really going to go hard once they start to notice their stakes growing. It's just the beginning and we are already seeing hundreds of Threads going out.
Thinking about what LeoFinance will look like after alpha testing is over, and there's a full feature set is pretty wild. I used to think 5k monthly active users was a long shot but now I'd say 50k is likely. Wait until people on Twitter discover they can log into this almost-identical interface and discover they can start earning crypto.
As much as it pains me to say it, we are very early. This is the first step to getting web3 into the hands of normies. Let's make sure we provide enough feedback so when the normies come... They're not scared away immediately.
have a GM
PS... @dreemsteem come play with the new UI!
Posted Using [LeoFinance Alpha]https://alpha.leofinance.io/@l337m45732/everything-has-changed-for-the-better