The question on my mind and most new steemians is -"between DTube and DLive, which one is best?"- I might not be the most tech savy person to answer this question but I believe experience has more weight. I have tried both platforms and will discuss in this post about the pro's and con's I've come accross on writing this blog post.
A lot of us don't have an hour or 30 minutes to spend on social media or to struggle with uploading content to any of the steem based platforms. Time is money and it can't be waisted, I also want to disclose that none of the two platforms are aware of my writing this post and I am not getting payed to promote a specific platform.
Personal oppinion
I have uploading 2 viedeo's to #dtube and have found it to apear user friendly and not sophisticated at all, but a problem I have been experiencing is the "failed to upload" ERROR mesage, sometimes I have to try 3 or 4 times to upload before it actually working. I had so manny problems with uploading my first video that I tried 4 times to upload and eventually got a bandwidth error message from too many failed attemps. Other then that I have not encountered any problems and might give it a try again in the near future.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- It's YouTube-like platform that people will be mostly familiar with.
- Can create your own dTube channel
- Fairly easy to use and upload
- Vote percentage is built in for all users.
- Thumbs-up under each video for upvoting.
- Rewards displayed with $0.000 decimal places.
- Can hide all NSFW videos
Cons:
- Lacks features like subscriptions.
- Thumbs-down (down-vote) is a little too conspicuous.
- dTube adds "dtube-" in front of all your tags (you can edit this in steemit).
- Biggest gripe: does not embed the video in steemit, but links to dTube to view.
I like the whole idea of the Live video or upload video choice that you have, today I uploaded my first video to #dlive and it was a great pleasure. Although I have a slow upload capability it took me one try and that was it. Very user friendly interface and a pleasure to use, definately my first choice the next time I upload a video and look forward to using the Live video option in the near future.
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- It's YouTube-like platform that people will be mostly familiar with.
- Offers the opportunity to go "live",
- Offers a donation button,
- Informaqtive "help" section for users,
Cons:
- Lacks features like subscriptions.
- Thumbs-down (down-vote) is a little too conspicuous.
- DLive adds "dlive-video" in front of all your tags (you can edit this in steemit).
- Does not enable yo to embed the video in a post.
Final Thoughts
It all comes down to personal prefrence and both platforms are still in an early development stage, what the future holds, only time will tell. Share your personal oppinion below and together we can make it a better community.