As a tsuser who went through that sad ride - I feel nothing but worry over this change. It tells me that colors and branding are more important than making the platform easier to work with for noobs. The two I brought on left in the tech disaster of the last couple of weeks. Several others who I used to communicate with are no longer posting. And why they used the color of tsu is a complete mystery.
I hope steemit does not meet the same fate as tsu - but tsu had 3M users at that time - not 30K. I hope some of this will be discussed and addressed at steemfest, but since it is a meeting of the big fish, I do not think the minnows will come up in conversation. Just because we are 98% of the platform, does not make us important.
I'm pretty worried about the future here and wondering if I should redirect my own steemit time into one of my other endeavors.
I am surely not recruiting for steemit and I recruit for just about anything that comes my way. This speak volumes that after almost 5 months I still do not tell my friends to try steemit.
Medium? I have no idea. Never used it and never seen it in my search results. I'm shocked by that alexa ranking for a place I do not encounter in my daily research.