Well, I am powering down, slowly, it's on and off. I just came to realize it was not a great place to invest money into. Putting in time is. But this place is still too much a game of favourites and vote buying. Many of my favourite connections lost interest in my post and voting for me, which fair enough but I felt left out of party. I in turn lost interest in them and decided to focus on other avenues. Steemit has such a bad rep in many Crypto and blogging circles they had to change the awesome logo and try to rebrand. They failed to change the top users habits and the brand has still not gained traction.
I still post and read some of my fav's such as yourself, not as often. I used to wake up and first thing i did was load up steem. I wrote a post a day, sometimes twice if i was inspired. I'm glad i saw this coming in the summer and powered down and sold a lot before it dropped below 1.50.
I'm banking on the Steemit competitor coming in soon. Bought tons of it with Steem earning. I just need a new on new platform that hopefully will function differently.
I did love here. I still love many authors I just don't have the time that I had had back then.
I do like the new people that comment on my posts and i do my best to give back the love when Iog in. I just really miss my old friends.
I have no regrets powering down. lol I'm mostly here to use the platform as a blog to share my life with my friends and family overseas. Rewards or not, I like they e-mail me comments or comment when I post them on Facebook.
I do hope Steemit's future is as bright as people have been saying it will be for the past 6 month as the value dropped to average a buck.
The first logo was way better. lol
Glad you still doing well man. Hope all is well with you in all aspects of your life.
I always look at steemit as something with huge potential. On this network anything goes, you can one day be massively successful and some other day fail miserably. I always had that in mind and never allowed myself to get frustrated and always look at the long run. The noise today will be forgotten tomorrow. Steem is also not ready for big audiences, not even close, that's why the price stagnates, after hard fork 20 and SMT launch just watch. It would be sad to see all this work for us as bloggers go to waste, it is also perfectly fine to take a break and return later, and sell if you must. Logo is not important, you get used to it, and trust me no newcomer will say shieeet what a shitty looking logo, they will see only $$$$$ :)
The power players here alienated too many clever people, devs, crypto whales and investors. It will take time. Would be nice tough. I dedicated countless hours here and no regrets for that, I made friends and learned a lot about so many different topics. But the next platforms will sink this place unless the power players change their habit. So many flaws in this system aside from the HF's the dev's are working to make steemit work for them. What they do for the user is too superficial it won't pass the muster. I