Whoaa.... you're on the right track, you just have the wrong timing.
Let's play devil's advocate. Development happens fast. Features come out fast. Everything you think we need gets released fast.
Then because of fast development, the chain crashes and burns, the steemit site crashes and burns.
It took Facebook multiple years to get where it is. Steemit went public July 4, 2016 it has only been alive publically 4 full months.
We're racing ahead of ourselves here. I know, we're losing some, but we're not losing many. The internet is a huge place, like multi-millions huge. This is beta. Let's proceed slowly and cautiously. We do have time to get this right, and getting it right is important.
Good post otherwise, but houston-we-have-a-problem renamed steemit-we-have-a-problem is not fully correct if you consider timing.
This post would read better to me Spring 2017, not now. Just being honest if that's okay..
Well, keep an eye out for it in the spring! There's no indication that we'll have a vastly improved platform. It took seven months to be able to link an avatar image. That's not very promising.
They could have come out with avatars first, and foundation later. They opted for foundation first, and avatars later. :) Keep positive. It's all coming.
Is it still coming? How much longer do we need to stay positive?
Did you read about v19.4 soon to be released, and v20 after that with SMT?
What feature specifically are you looking for? The UI today looks different than it did a year ago
By the way, have you seen @busy.org lately? Their UI seems to have more rapid development in that department... Perhaps you might rather use that system... have you tried it?
While we're talking. :) In the last month I created intelliwitness which is currently 94 (non-top 50, so its a manual vote)
I'm happy to see you're getting up there. I see you have ats-witness -- I am adding a vote for your witness
One of the things witnesses can do with generated funds as they climb the ladder is set rewards and bounties.
I'm glad you still care as much today as you did a year ago, it is good to see.