While after a short period of blogging here I am fully satisfied with the platform, which I think finds a nice middle ground between the pesky mechanics of Hive and the snobbery of Medium, I recognise that Publish0x is very much work in progress (which is great, only dead fish stop moving and go with the stream). After a short while here I though I would formulate some loose thoughts I have about further improving the platform into a neat five points. I hope to hear from other people's experiences so far as well. 

1. Article threads.
This is a no-brainer, allowing authors to tie posts together without the need to necessarily divide up their writing into many blogs: there are some topics that belong in one blog, but require you to post in multiple instalments. Someone writing about an election or volcano eruption would likely want to comment in real time and then tie together posts from previous days so that the reader could easily trace the events and  comments on them backwards in time. Another possibility this would open would be replying to other people's articles with a post of your own, something like an extensive comment that could nevertheless be a standalone piece. This would hopefully not transform the platform into twitter overnight, but has some potential for good I think.

2. Notifications galore
Again, a pretty simple idea. More notifications. Maybe not like facebook, which feels the need to inform you that there have been people posting in your group recently or that someone has a bike for sale nearby, but it would be nice to get a prompt whenever someone comments on your article. Since comments on Publish0x are not rewarded, comments are usually thoughtful. It would be a shame to miss them.

3. Daily tips left counter
I am sure I am not the only person to misuse resources when I do not know exactly what I have left under my belt. A simple tips counter would help everyone keep trace of how many tips they have left and adjust their tipping behaviour accordingly, so that only the best 5 articles we find that day get rewarded.

4. Article pitch to be displayed under title
I am sure we are all familiar with the practice of news sites to present a short blurb about what the article will be about and what position it will take just above the article itself, so that potential readers can make up their mind sooner than later about whether they might want to read on. Well, there is no reason Publish0x should be any worse. Sometimes the first sentence of your article is just a bit too obscure or weird to give the reader an immediate whiff of what is to come. Maybe this is your style of writing, maybe the subject must be approached from a weird angle to be comprehensible, but having an optional feature of pitching the article with a sentence just under the title, like the dweebs at Politico do, would be a nice option to have, would you not agree?

5. Internal crypto market
Now this is the controversial one and the one that would require most work/hassle, so I include it last. Reaching the minimum payout figure for crypto at the moment is not the hardest thing in the universe, that's true, but imagine attempting to reach just a dollar or five in a number of different crypto should Publish0x introduce tipping in more than just FARM and AAMPL. Imagine gathering five or ten different crypto at once from tips. Reaching minimum payout threshold would take ages. At the same time I would like to encourage the Publish0x team to branch out, seek sponsorship from more projects, maybe ask Nexo for some of their tokens etc. A solution to this would be a small market within Publish0x, that would allow users to trade one currency for another, to enable faster withdrawals. You would naturally need a buyer for your price pitch, so settlement would probably be slow, but I could absolutely see a small cap internal exchange being run here. The key points would be that the exchange would have to be for internal use only, so it would have no need for any regulation. Alternatively a user could opt for a payout in a single currency at a fee which would be dynamic and allowing Publish0x not to loose out due to any moves in users' currency preferences.

So here you go, five ideas. Please let me know what you think about them, especially their feasibility as I know next to nothing about coding.