Wonderful tutorial as usual. Though notificacions are missing from Steemit but I believe (@sanjay91422) told me that earlier there used to notificacions in the main Steemit website itself.
The only trouble, I faced and I'm sure several other new users too face that you've to sign up with a lot of websites/services to be able to keep up with Steemit.
Steemnow, Steemd, SteemVoter to name a few. That's a big turn down for someone coming from Facebook. New user engagement depends a lot on the ease with which a new user can navigate/work around this website.
Probably that's the reason we've a huge number of in active users
For anyone reading this in the future, if you use Steempeak instead of steemit.com, that will knock out the need for other websites by like 90%. Steempeak has notifications, a replies page, and really the only other site you might need to use on a daily basis is steemworld.org/@yourusername
Ginabot is still super handy for me and I use SteemPeak. I use her to notify me of new followers, mentions, and I am watching some authors and tags for new posts posted.
Steemworld.org has a mentions page though too!