What if I told you this update and the overall direction that Steemit, Inc. is taking steemit.com, was genius in the big picture? What if the single most important issue Stinc is addressing is not UX on steemit.com, but how to grow Steem blockchain in as diverse a manner as possible, to mitigate the perceived risk of their own large stake of STEEM while simultaneously growing its value? Wouldn't it make sense to (purposefully) keep steemit.com a terribly designed website that makes any Joe Programmer/Web Designer think to themselves, "I could do better than that!" (case in point, yourself. There are a million other examples). Wouldn't it make sense to bumble around and drag your heels on steemit.com and a mobile app while the DTubes and Yetis and (hopefully) genius mobile app developers of the world do that work for them... while Stinc focuses on SMTs and expansion completely outside of the current blockchain ecosystem? This update worked as intended. Steemit.com is working as intended. Cheers
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Lol far from! Worst update ever. You don’t build shitty ui’s and assume your creative user base to create better ones while you work on building alt coins. You’re crazy lol! The amount of user fallout here because the onboarding here is a disaster for new users has gotta have fallout in the thousands every week.
Primary 1, is to grow as you expand while retaining a user base that is consistent. The current ui is not sustainable. At all! There needs to be a rework to compensate for all the list users and non adopters.
The first time I had this thought, I thought it was a funny joke. This was months ago. As more and more time goes by and steemit.com continue to be a steaming pile of shit and "updates" like this continue to happen, I am more and more convinced that it is in fact the truth. Look at everything you are pointing out. Does it really make sense that a company with the resources that Steemit, Inc. has would fail so miserably at this? There are two options here - #1 - you are right, they are trying to improve steemit.com and have just managed to absolutely and completely fail at every turn. Option # 2 - they are NOT trying to improve steemit.com and in fact are intentionally keeping it crappy. Really stop and think about this. I think #2 is FAR more likely to be true. Would you be working on your own front end if steemit.com was polished? I doubt it. They have already explicitly said that steemit.com is not a priority, but I really think it goes beyond that and they are intentionally keeping it more-or-less crippleware. They do not have to build the killer app in this space, and in fact, it is better for them if they do NOT. If they both had the largest stake, AND dominated the ecosystem with killer apps, there would be 0 incentive for others to develop apps. They are not trying to grow steemit.com. They are trying to grow the value of their stake in steem. A diverse ecosystem with succesful DApps and front ends produced by 3rd parties is what they WANT. I think you are looking at this with blinders on, so upset by the (terrible) UX on steemit.com that you don't see this is intentional. There are dozens if not hundreds of DApps and alternative front ends in development. This is pretty obviously a direct result of how crappy steemit.com is. Steemit.com is now, always has been and likely always be a proof of concept and nothing else.
Eh I’ve worked for all the major social media clients. This is not a smart tactical direction but we can agree to disagree. I think honestly they just don’t have enough personnel in place to make updates
I am (of course) not really serious. But you have to admit, there certainly isn't a lot of evidence to the contrary that would allow someone to argue against the supposition that Steemit, Inc. is intentionally mismanaging steemit.com :)
dude im totally going to follow you. i like that you actually have a voice and speak your mind. i like that man. you should do the same lol. anyway.... agreed it could make sense that they no longer care and they are collecting steem or looking into other areas of expansion. i guess its disappointing bc its naive to me. I feel like isnt the point to have users? not users that understand tech or dev or design or your computers... there are TONS of authors out there that dont understand tech and seeing an interface where even I rage quit lol is like damn this needs work. I agree the bad ui breeds ppl like me and busy.org or manifest something better, thats true. and perhaps this is my carbon footprint on the platform to build my own. which im doing. but i guess i expected a response or something from the higher steemit powers in hopes to build something or assist them. no worries. im having a blast meeting people, discussions, and creating it so for me it creates purpose and like you said user retention in the power of 1 me lol
One thing to keep in mind here is we are not talking about a large user base at the moment - it isn't like Steem is pissing away the good will of millions of users or anything. You will hear lots of numbers bandied about RE how many users are signing up and how many users there are, but the truth is there are less than 50,000 active users. Way less when you account for bots and alt accounts. And of those users, nothing would make Steemit, Inc. happier than if a large chunk of them quit Steem and never came back. If the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist anarcho-capitalist early adopters went away, @sneak, @ned, et al, would be dancing in the streets. @sneak has said as much publicly (as stating his own personal opinion - but you would have to be incredibly naive to think this "personal opinion" was not held by the rest of the upper management at Stinc).
Again I don't really think they are intentionally crippling Steemit.com but if the truth is that steemit.com is the very bottom of the priority list, that isn't much different in practice. I for one am looking forward to more updates from you, your front end looks awesome and I am hoping you and your team can bring it to reality! BTW shoot me a DM on Discord would love to chat about something related with you. @gnashster#6522. Cheers