As a developer, I'm usually active on the major self-publishing platforms from time to time.
Whether it is a public number, headline number, Zhihu, etc., which publishes long articles, or microblogging, instant, etc., which publishes short dynamics, or even mainstream platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Medium, etc., abroad, they all synchronize the distribution of their own creative content. After all, it is not easy to finish writing an article painstakingly, do not send a few more platforms, a little more probability of being seen will be a big loss haha.
I don't know if any of you reading this have tried self-publishing or are going to try it in the future. From my perspective, I usually encounter the following problems:
1, manually pasting text and images into numerous platforms one at a time is too time-consuming, and doing it a few times gets tiresome and seriously affects creative time;
2、Using third-party clients such as AntSmart is too expensive, and there are limitations on the number of times you can synchronize and the number of accounts, and there are problems with the formatting of articles on many platforms;
3、Sometimes it is necessary to publish on foreign platforms and finally translate the article into the language of the corresponding country at the same time, but translating it again increases the workload additionally;
4、Sometimes there are only some inspirational keywords, haven't thought about how to string together, if there can understand my ai would be good.
In many urgent need to improve the efficiency of the scene needs, distributor tool appeared, and is in the form of a browser plug-in, very lightweight, completely free of the constraints of installing the client in the use of a period of time, I have the following feelings:
1, distributer plug-in is a sidebar to open the form, does not affect the use of browser pages, in the use of plug-in features at the same time, you can still use the normal function of the web page.
2, distributer plugin mainly for graphic content, more in line with my needs, because I also do not send video. Currently the success rate of synchronization is still quite high, occasionally there will be synchronization exceptions, but retry it will be fine.
3, the plug-in is characterized by assisting in opening all the platforms that need to be synchronized, and the layout of the graphic content, but will not be automatically released. Because different platforms have some personalized settings, in order to achieve better results is best to manually check the box. The plug-in itself does not automatically publish also gives us an opportunity to quickly check and fine-tune the layout (although it will take some time, but it is worth it, after all, the big head of time has been replaced by the plug-in).
4, the distinguishing feature of the distributer is that it can be set for different platforms in different languages. For example, my article both need to publish to the domestic platform, but also hope to be able to disseminate abroad, but the language of each foreign country is different, the use of Chinese distribution effect will certainly be compromised. This plugin can translate the uploaded Chinese content into several languages (currently only supports English, Japanese), and then you can check the corresponding language for different platforms, so that the content sent out is the translated version of each language, a very good feature.
5, in the ai support, of course, the plug-in also supports the generation of text. Currently can be based on the input of the inspiration content, automatically generate a small essay, but this I currently use not much, mainly to distribute the content has been written.
6, due to plug-in support for more platforms, all platforms are arranged out or more miscellaneous, but not all platforms are what I need. distributer has a more humane point is that you can freely drag the arrangement of the order of the various platforms, so that they are often used in the forefront of the platforms, row once, the next time you open the plug-in does not have to row again.
Overall, as a small tool in the form of a plugin, the degree of perfection is still good, the interface is relatively simple, and there is also corresponding official website support. However, there is no doubt that the tool still has some places that need to be optimized.
For example, at present only support mailbox this box registration login, has not docking third-party platform one key login, which is slightly troublesome; and then ai generating function is still poor, no one writes the real thing, but fast is true.
If you've also encountered some of the problems I described earlier, this plugin is still worth a try, and it still saves a lot of distribution and synchronization time overall. And the plugin is just starting out, it's still being upgraded and improved, so I'm sure it will get better and better in the future.
Finally the address of the plugin is attached: