Great reply, Luke. The whitepaper link is broken...both that i've found (listed below) are broken and it's not on Steem.io.
And these are broken:
https://steem.io/SteemWhitePaper.pdf
---and---
https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf (from their previous post earlier this year using the @steemitblog as the official announcement) - https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/steemit-2017-roadmap
Both yield the same result.
Now, I agree with you that it create the "I can build something better" mentality. I guess i'm impatient and with a medium size budget ~$50k, a really slick website could be built. Something to impress people. Sure, if Steemit.com receive 3x the users as it did this year (which was still very impressive) it would have caused more network issues, I get that. For now, I'll be patient, but i sure hope to see an killer update form them early Q1 2018; competition is coming.
UPDATE: I see The Steem Shop is included in the sidebar. Good addition.
Ah, thanks for clarifying! I see there's an issue for that created here: https://github.com/steemit/steem.io/issues/15 I bought it to their attention as well. Hopefully it's a quick fix.
i'd also add the link: https://steem.io/2017roadmap.pdf
It is referenced in Google as well as on the official @steemitblog article (as well as a few others). Both links should be fixed.
Both are now fixed: https://github.com/steemit/steem.io/issues/15#event-1339955400
Yeah, my hunch is it's a related issue and when one is fixed, they both will be. I'll keep an eye on it.