I've noticed a drop in upvotes too. Don't think it's anything to do with what you are posting though. Part of it I think is the disapearence of the auto voting thing and people being more careful over their vote power. Newer steemians who don't have a vote slider have very few votes per day and so even with all your new followers they can't upvote many of the posts they see. Also I think there is a case for posts falling through the cracks, so many posts it's harder to pick out posts from people you've been following and upvoting for a while.
Well that's my thoughts anyway, could be way off or the reason you're looking for.
Who knows for sure.
I think you make good points. For newbies, it must indeed be the vote slider mainly. I guess others are still trying to find a good balance with the new voting weight and the slider.
I wish we had some extra filtering options in our Home feed, so we could more easily find posts on specific topics of our favorite authors.
I'm using the resteem feature as a sort of bookmark so I can easily find some accounts or when I come across an account I remember go to their page to upvote posts I've missed but it would be nice to have a favourites feed.
Yes, definitely! It's one thing I've been missing here since the start. I've noticed quite some posts that I wanted to read later on, but the only way to remember them so far was to just add them to my Chrome bookmarks.
I think I saw a bookmark icon on busy.org, but I kind of just want to stick with steemit.com, so I never tried it...