Oh i do know that the blockchain itself is quite fast and pretty good at handling all of the traffic fairly fast and that is quite impressive. I do not think that there will be a big competitor for a long time because of how well established Steemit is.. the Esteem app is what I was referring to as slowish but that has nothing to do with the structure of the system.. just the app itself maybe because of the IOS or other factors. It is always slow on my phone. Didn't know all these other views but I will check them out.
Yeah, it is pretty amazing. I expect to see a lot of things built on top of the steem blockchain. Steemit just happens to be the common hub as it is the one built by the people that created the blockchain. :)