INLEO Experience - Good Bad or Indifferent?
INLEO Experience - Good Bad or Indifferent?
The Title of this article says it all...
But what is my answer, and why am I writing this today?
#aprilinleo day 29 well, how we did? How was your experience with InLeo? Give all your feedback! Good experience and bug reports as well
There is a great initiative on the Inleo platform it is a daily writing prompt and that is the prompt for day 29!
This then is my experience with InLeo.
I liken Inleo to Chelsea football club.
I am a massive fan of Chelsea but they fluffing infuriate me, this then should set the tone for this post!
- Just like Chelsea, InLeo tries to be innovative.
- Just like Chelsea, InLeo management do not communicate effectively nor take kindly constructive criticism.
- Just like Chelsea, InLeo management often don't answer questions.
- Just like Chelsea, InLeo management can be condescing, patronizing, supercilious and impudent.
- Just like Chelsea, some days InLeo is sweet to use, some days it is rank rotten.
- Just like Chelsea, InLeo is a Work In Progess.
- Just like with Chelsea, I want to trust InLeo management to deliver to the users a memorable experience.
The big difference however is that no matter what Chelsea do, we will always be fans! InLeo need to up their game to keep their users and gain the incredibly ambitious MAUs needed by the end of 2024 or return a hell of a lot of money!
The GOOD Experiences with InLeo.
Innovation.
Threads
As I mentioned they are trying to keep things fresh. The #threads short form content platform is fun to use when it works. This weekend being a prime example of the Indifferent category, it was down for most of the weekend.
But at least their is a microblogging element on Hive, the only other comment alterantive being Waves on Ecency I believe. DBuzz is short form but counts as a post so not really a comparable platform!
LeoDex
I am not going to mention LeoDex except to say I have no experience with it.
Trust, I am great believer in Trust, the InLeo breaks far too often for me to try LeoDex. There is money involved, I know I am not alone in that. It is not a case of oh my thread did not post, it could be a case of my 100 LEO vanished... I am not ruling it out, but that is my experience of it and why, which leads me on to another money venture from InLeo.
Premium
Yes there is a membership available for 10 HBD. And funnily enough I have just bought it for my main account! This is the first time on my main and yes it is a 30 day trial....
I pay for Medium, I pay for X, I pay for Farcaster so paying is nothing new IF you really get better experiences....
One of the perks of Premium as per the blurb below ....
.... More Curation on Your Blogs by @leo.voter .... so let's see how that goes over the next 30 days....
Will we recoup our 10HBD ... Make a profit? I shall report back!
Initiatives
The MonthlyInLeo initiatve from @tsunsica is a brilliant idea and I am glad the bosses have let her run with it. In fact she is the star of the management team as takes time to answer you (usually).
So I will digress for a second ....
Communication plays a major part in a project's failing.
That can be lack of communicating or providing incorrect communicatoin or a whole myriad of things....
Here is an example ... note screenshot of this comment from @leofinance post LeoDex: HIVE Inbound Swaps and XDeFi Integration
This new relatively new user had questions and as of five minutes ago nobody had replied...
Not everyone knows to goto Discord... speaking of Discord not everyone has thick enough skin to ask a question in discord to be answered dismissively with a passive aggressive emoji at the end either!
Customers make or break an experience/a project.
Weekend threading initiative was a great initiative to get some engagement going at the weekend.
The Weekly Authors I thought was a great concept. This was to include a poll on threads. The winner would be a beneficiary of a big vote, this started with whales voting but that died off. It must be said that 20% of a post would be to goto weeklytops so they would produce a web2 marketing effort...
Some of my community members stopped voting as they saw no evidence of anything being done with this money, nor the montly reports from the daily $500 DHF money... There is only so much sticking up for a project you can do when money is involved...
... but again when the polls don't work all it does it drive away users and all you have left is a hard core...
Haha now I think of it and we are back to the football comparisons, the hard core fans are ULTRAS ... so now we have the InLeo Ultras! I think these would tbe 1000 True Fans that @khaleelkazi talked about
Unfortunately these things flounder when the UI either does not load or some of the features only work some of the time.
I love the Underdog, I want InLeo to succeed. I am fed up of the haters the sniping the general crap that gets talked about, but sometimes InLeo does not help itself!!
My InLeo experience can be summed up ..... as ...... 👇 ⚽
When Chelsea click they are a fluffing joy to watch.
When InLeo works as it should it is fluffing awesome!
Sources and Reference documents
This article is an entry for this month's Inleo writing initiative.
You can find all the details in April Inleo Monthly Calendar Now Here!
Todays prompt is How was your experience with InLeo?
All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated, note lead image is generated with AI on pixlr .com from a prompt by me.
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Thanks for the great round up Ed, it's been a while since I read about what's happening in inleo. I see you are paying for most of your social media now, inleo included. How is farcaster btw? I registered but didn't pay and finish it. Is it worth it?
Farcaster I wasnt going to, as I did what you did, but there are airdrop opportunities there hehe so yeah that is why I did that. Yeah paying for social media, changed days lol!
Yeah I have thought for a long long long time, user experience must be priority number 1. Everything else should take a back seat until the UI of Threads and InLeo works flawlessly.
I get that development takes time and things go side ways, but if you have a platform that is up all the time and works like it's supposed to, you will grow that raving fans or ultras to higher levels.
the problem is, #web3 hype is dying and if you dont have a platform that works flawlessly, people will just leave. they have no vested interest in sticking around.
it's paramount for the LEO team to put it's members first and make that UI as perfect as possible. this should be the focus, not MAYA, not anything else but that first and foremost.
pennies from the sidelines...lol
Hey Jongo, first of all, a great big thank you for reading this and leaving a spot on comment.
I didn't expect anyone in the InLeo team to read this or comment on it, that is part of the communication problem. Ignorance is not always bliss!
The whole MAYA thing is great, but InLeo UI is the bread and butter and what the vast majority of people are here for.
They hype as you say is dying, and if you go on all these platforms out there, they are slick.
I thought that this year with the focus on bringing users would speed things up. Well we shall see, but people will not hang around forever.
In June it will 2 years since the first LPUD! 2 years that is a fluffing long time. Whole blockchains have been launched in that time!
Great pennies from the sideline.
I love how you likened Inleo to Chelsea and you are right, no matter what we will always be Chelsea fans. I think Inleo needs to work on their UI, there are always bugs and then it makes it difficult for us to enjoy using the platform.
Ah yes we will always beeeee Chelsea fans mi lady! The UI has been going on for a long time, and I know lots of users who won't be coming back. If we really want InLeo to be adopted then they must get it stable virtually all of the time.
I like the whole thing about you explaining inleo with Chelsea. That was really fun to read.
I hope the management sees this.
Thanks for reading Abena and I am glad you got the humour. I do try to make things fun, as for the management, no I think they are doing something else 🤣
You’re welcome
Hehe
I think you did a pretty good job of summing up a lot of people's feelings. I'm a lot more cautious about anything that comes from Leo than I used to be. It's not that I have been burned, but expectations have often failed to live up to the hype.
Thanks Bozz, I must admit I support the underdog in life and I saw all these negative warnings about Leo. Most of it stemed from before I joined Hive, all this CUB and Polycub stuff etc. So this is my personal view since I have been using it.
I don't do hype as a general rule, so will sit back now and watch what happens.
I wish you the best of luck! I still have a decent stake and I hold a lot of LBI so I am not totally giving up on it, but I am not expecting too much either.
I am a massive fan of Chelsea but they fluffing infuriate me, 🤣 🤣 🤣. Why use Chelsea Mr Tengo, spare them please.
As you said, let stay around and wish this platform achieves its vision. The die hards.
Hehe well there was no way I was going to use Rangers lol!
Thanks Dani, let's see what happens.
Reading this post has been quite an experience.
Awesome.
Hopefully the management of "Chelsea" has taken note of all this in a brand new agenda that it's on the table every single day from now on, ticking things off.
Hugs! - #dreemerforlife
Hehe thank you @nanixxx for appreciating the Chelsea fans point of view!
Very interesting review @tengolotodo.leo I must admit that on paper InLeo looks perfect but somehow I keep gravitating back to Peakd. But this seems to be my personal choice, and hence I have been trying to get a fair assessment of how InLeo is. Your review seems to be the best review I have seen which honestly puts forth both the good and the bad. I hope the InLeo mgmt is reading it too and working on some of the concerns you have raised.
Cheers from a fellow #dreemerforlife
When we use a front end in Hive we do it for personal choices. The advantage in theory with InLeo is that they have threads or a short form content, a Twitter on Hive. But the more things available means the more things that can go wrong.
Nothing is perfect, so a review for me should try to give a warts and all view but all give credit where credit is due. After reading your presentation post and me today putting embedded videos in the InLeo UI I wonder if that would have helped you.
Thanks for the great comment
Good comparison and I believe that from positive and negative points, we can find balance and always seeking to improve our space.
May more people discover at INLEO the great chance to change their lives that they are looking for. For some people, what we do here may not mean much, but for others it is practically another level.