Navigating Hive: The Advantage of Multiple Frontends
Usually, platforms have a single-user interface for their services. The popular social media platforms that we know today have their own specific layout functionality. On a platform like Hive, however, it is different as there are many interfaces available for its users to navigate with. This poses a great advantage to platforms with conventional single-user interfaces.
These user interfaces are commonly referred to as frontends, and they allow users to interact with the data and transactions on Hive. Since Hive is a decentralised platform, there have been different frontends that users can choose from based on their preferences.
Decentralisation, as opposed to centralised networks, simply means that you have the data stored and processed by anonymous nodes in a network, thereby taking away that central control. Facilitated by blockchain technology, it makes it more secure and transparent.
Based on different purposes and needs, the various frontends that exist for Hive serve different purposes. Since there are various kinds of content and transactions that can exist, and Hive facilitates a large majority of them, there are frontends for articles, videos, audio, blockchain games, microblogging, and even fitness. And with their various functionalities, they meet the specific needs of users and endear them to indulge in their services. This demonstrates the expanse that the Hive ecosystem covers.
Advantages of Multiple Frontends on Hive
Specialized Functionality:
Each of the frontends on Hive is designed with specific features and provides unique experiences to its users. Some people may prefer the looks and layout of one friend to another. For example, some would rather use the PeakD front, some others would rather stick with Ecency, and another set of people would use the Hive.blog front end.
Some of the frontends may be community-centric, where users can interact more with community-specific concepts like tokens. A few examples are InLeo, Neoxian City, and CineTV.
Microblogging is very similar to what many are used to on X, and InLeo is a frontend that provides such services on its frontend. It facilitates long-form content as well, but its short-form environment is yet another advantage with multiple frontends.
User Engagement:
Some frontends provide a more intuitive experience for some users than others. Some would prefer one over the other based on various factors such as the display of assets, the effectiveness of the notification panel, community page display, the content presentation from the chain, and the like.
Users can choose between frontends of their choice but would rather stick to the one they are most comfortable with.
Content Creation:
Most of these front ends have in-built text editors that serve as spaces for creators to write their content and organise it before publishing. The frontends provide different experiences on this level.
For example, PeakD has a feature that allows users to share drafts among themselves and that enables collaboration between people on articles to be published. Another example is the level of convenience people experience when using them; they can simply choose the one that's most convenient for them.
Resilience to Changes
In the event of changes or updates to a specific frontend, users have the flexibility to switch to an alternative front end seamlessly and still get a good experience doing their thing around Hive.
That flexibility has always been priceless. There have been times when I would find a particular platform unavailable to use, and then I would just switch to something different in the meantime. Although such times are not frequent, they happen anyway.
Regardless of the frontend they may find themselves using, the data is basically the same. In essence, content, assets, and transactions are all the same but read and displayed differently on these frontends.
Opposed to the conventional singular user interface on most platforms, the frontends on Hive offer a great advantage on top of the vast prospects of Hive.
A Few Frontends on Hive:
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I've operated on at least all of these frontend and one thing I can say is that each of the frontend have their perks and disadvantage. It entails being on the right frontend when you want to achieve certain results.
Actually, that's very true. The desired results often determine the frontend to use.
I'm curious about your favourite. Tell me?
For starters, the pob frontend used to be my favorite. This could be because I was introduced to Hive through that frontend. But along the line, peakd frontend proved to be less hectic. So I'd go with peakd;(
What's yours?
Woah. I didn't think people used that frontend. I have barely used it. But I totally get. My onboarder introduced me to PeakD first, I got used to it, and it remains my favourite. It's very easy to SEE everything with PeakD. But I am spending most of my time on InLeo now. They have pretty interesting things going on there.
This is something I like very much about Hive because most serve me as tools and each have certain features I use on daily, PeakD love the analytics, Ecency the mobile app is sick and Inleo went through a lot of changes with large amount of users but a bit buggy although the one I think making the most progress, something I would love this front ends is to use 3Speak on the back end to provide video support
It's all very fascinating to have all of these powerful frontends available. And, for the fact that they are developed by different teams, there is adequate attention to each one of them.
3speak has empowered Hive users to be able to store their video content on the chain as well.
Yes, it's true that it allows for more flexibility. At the beginning of my journey on Hive, I struggled a lot with all these platforms. I couldn't understand them.
Now, for several weeks, I've been using Ecency. Especially on mobile because there's a mobile app.
I don't know if there's a mobile app for PeakD too.
I understand how it must have felt trying to get acquainted with the frontends. I only knew PeakD at the time that I joined, so all of my learning was over there.
No, there is no mobile app for PeakD yet. If you find any, particularly on Google Play Store, know that it's a fake and that you could lose your account by using it.
What an amazing write-up bro, learning is key and I have learned something important from your post.
Yeah, most of this frontend gives the same result but in different forms or ways.
Thanks for sharing this bro.
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I have operated on just four of them but I noticed that hive.blog doesn't have where to save drafts like the others, so I just only write using Peakd.com draft and use my choice of frontend to submit my post any day I wish to do that.
I hope to try a few of them except the 3speak because I have no plan for that anytime soon.
Indeed, for every feature Hive blockchain brings, there is always a benefit for its users and that is why it can not be compared to any other. Any example for using an ecency frontend, you earn a point and I am also sure using the proofofbrain frontend, helps you earn their token, so it is a win-win for everyone.
Great observation and your content is educational, I wouldn't have known about most of these frontends.