I think Steemit is more or less holding steady for now. At some point it will need to grow, but the developers may be waiting until they feel it is ready before pushing for publicity. It ought to lose the beta tag then. I'm pretty happy with where it's going. Of course there are some 'fairness' issues with the voting, but as long as I'm making something I can live with that.
I'll get to implementing my own voting bot at some point :)