For a while now, I have been using the Steepshot.io front end to publish some of my posts here. In fact, probably somewhere in the region of 10-15 of my posts are created using Steepshot.
I realize that many people think of Steepshot as just a "photo app" like flickr and imgur... but there's really more to it than that.
As you can see by this post, you can publish FAR more than "just a photo with a caption." Steepshot allows a "description" (of your photo, technically speaking) that's up to 2048 characters in length. For the average writer, that's actually going to work out to somewhere between 300-400 words in length... which is probably more than 80% of the content on Steemit.
The other cool thing about Steepshot is that you get to use more than five tags!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not recommending that anyone go on a "tag spam" campaign, but it CAN be sort of handy when you — like I do — tag most of your posts with #photography and some group you're affiliated with, in my case #steemitbloggers. On Steemit, that would mean you're suddenly down to three descriptive tags. And if you were also part of a challenge or contest, you'd be down to TWO "free" tags.
So that's kind of a handy feature, too.
So anyway, I just wanted to toss this "medium-short" post out there, both as a recommendation to give it a try, as well as an illustration that you can write more than a simple caption!
How about YOU? Have you ever used Steepshot.io to publish your posts? If so, did you use it only for photo posts, or did you realize you can also "write" posts there? Leave a comment-- share your experiences-- be part of the conversation!
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