Hello everyone!

Weekend is already approaching and I wish you all have a wonderful rest and great relax and restoration!

Since #steemfest is now counting down with bout 19 days left, I have made a point to be a little more active, unfortunately due to the #newsteem from the most recent hardfork, I had to resort to multiple platforms to get the best experience from both mobile (Android) and Desktop (while I am busy at work)

And so I have decided to compare both of my most used dApps for correspondence

Present to you:

I know in my #teammalaysia family, there are 2 camps that supported both the apps, @esteem and @partiko

In face, I believe there are ambassadors representing both these apps... I know @elizacheng is an avid user of partiko.

I personally was (until recent hardfork) was an avid @partiko user as well, simply because of its usefulness; however after noticing my team like @joannewong and I believe even @zord189 always mention that they only use eSteem, I gave this dApp a try once again after its recent upgrades to version 2.

I must say that both dApps has its strengths and weaknesses, and I will briefly point out what actually stood out for each application for me,

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The feature that could bank in users

Partiko: the Mention tab

Both Partiko and eSteem has points to gather in order to enable users to "boost" their posts with the apps' own promoting account, but this is something that I did not see in eSteem at all.

For a steemian that might have many people starting to tag you and you want to know what it is about (in case of anything important like what @anomadsoul did for the Road to Steemfest challenge).

Steemians do have a real life, and sometimes by the time they are back online they might have tons of mentions created for him / her to read (especially contest initiators) so this feature would have been awesome if eSteem has it too.

Now I have to rely on Gina to remind me if my I am offline. Besides, no one should be glued and overly addicted with the Steem blockchain because it wouldn't be any different from any other addictive social media network in terms of constant connected.

Update: 19 October.
I found the Mention section filter from eSteem (from mobile) , but it is not obvious. So Partiko still has the UI favourite because it is easy to see.

Partiko: The filtering off NSFW

I am not a big fan of p.o.r.n. and I do not need thumbnails of a woman banging off with her mouth or her private parts.

If Steem blockchain was meant for 18 SX, then education encouragement for kiddie writers like @myjuniors should not even exist.

Partiko has heard the whims of users who want to keep content "child-safe"'; while eSteem does not bother to filter this out, especially there's a NSFW video influx coming in ever since the token is available for pleasure indulgence tribe.

(Unless eSteem has conveniently make this setting exist, but hard to find)

Esteem: The multi-account login feature

For community / tribe leaders , no Steemian has only 1 account especially when they need to separate business from pleasure (personal) account.

And this one has been very much useful especially when you are on the run and you need to quickly switch from personal mode to community activity / competition mode.

Heck. Even SME like @omnivori has its own branding account, while founders like @sam.hsuu has her own private account to work on.

Or charity non-profit entities. The list go on...

Esteem: Token Gifting

This is one very unique feature that I haven't seen other dApps have (with my limited exposure). Though both Partiko and eSteem have their own point system; what Partiko earns, stays in Partiko; while eSteem has come to learn the attraction marketing of "sharing is caring".

Esteem: Scheduled posting

I think like @steempeak , this is an excellent feature to have, but unfortunately till now I still can't set scheduled posting for eSteem to work; resulting most of my scheduled posts (when I know I am going to be very busy later) is used in steempeak.

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Great feature that both dApps should have

Beneficiaries

Ever since #newsteem has started on its' hype of The burning project , added features like beneficiaries is a + point for luring users to come and enjoy their service.

As far as I know eSteem has a preset "beneficiary" to their project enhancement while partiko relies on advertisements to keep the funding alive; but both did not add the new burn feature that could just be great for content creators who do not need the steem to put food on the table but just the exposure and the heart to keep steem from over produced to other people's hands.

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Knock-out round: Which is stronger?

Partiko eSteem

More than 5 tags

So far, from the desktop eSteem's settings, it still limits to only 5 tags.
Partiko has the flexibility for edit and add tags if necessary (even though uploading photos are not allowed)

Partiko eSteem

The ease of Power up / Power Down / Delegate / Transfer (Wallet features)

You practically can do most of the wallet features that is very handy for those quick power up for more SP with just a switch of Active Key

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Verdict?

Unfortunately at this point of time I am not seeing either of the dApp wins. Both has its good features that now allows multi-tagged posting for more than 5 tags and this is a very useful sign in case there are any updates needed.

Even though eSteem provides the ease of uploading / adding images on edited posts, its 5 tag limitation is not getting enough attention from users (like me) ever since tribes are formed.

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Well, I do hope that my brief run through of the strength and weaknesses that I have seen on these 2 dApps that I frequently use will be able to help newbies to decide which one to use, or to use both in order to have their best exprience.

Other than that, tribes Webpages are very useful if they want to read specific post of a specific user, instead of going to the main site with all sorts posts combined like Steemit / partiko / eSteem

So far Steempeak is doing pretty good with its categorised posts, but this site itself I have not fully tested except the schedule posting and the 10 tags and the scheduled posting I can use at ease.

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I hope you have enjoyed reading this brief review of mine as much as I have enjoyed preparing it. If you do like my review, do give a thumbs up for your liking.

Until then

Thank You for Your Time

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