Hopefully, all goes well with the client and everything to plan and you can resolve the issue with nothing too annoying or difficulty arising.
I saw your mums post and it was amazing to see all the photographs you took. I thought it was one of your posts as it was in the same format until I realised it wasn't you haha. I'm also glad she is using steemit and getting some great responses from the community
I haven't seen the steemitblog post yet. I'll check it out after this but I'm excited to see what new addition they are going to add to the ecosystem. We haven't had anything for a while which makes me even more excited.
I agree that scaling should definitely is a huge priority since there is no point having a website if it can't scale. I bet the development team have been working their hardest to fix the problem since that seems like the main focus for now.
I'm glad to here that some more people are planning to invest into steem. It is important to only invest what you are willing to lose but I think steem will definitely have a bright future with its current progress.
I think compared to other social media platforms steemit is more genuine and it has a tight close knit community with more natural and honest interactions between the author and commenter and that is what I love about it @exyle! :)