It's great to see you having a crack at getting this site looking better.
I won't get into what you are designing, I'll just let you know what I want myself:
I like line view and hate grid view.
I use Steemit More Info addon on Firefox to get a bunch of features that need to be here in the first place.
My main frustration is not being able to quickly jump to replies to answer them and having to scroll down 100 comments looking for the one in a green box
I want a good bookmarking system Like I have on Opera. BUT I have to use bloody Firefox just for Steemit to get More Info.
And Formatting my posts - I want what I have on Wordpress, and not having to bugger about in HTML. I want Bold, Italic, Heading 1 and 2, link, and center image. That's all.
hah very understandable requests. how to adapt to steemit is the question. I agree the Steem More info is a great plugin and i like that. as for grid view vs list view itd just be a toggle so thats no big deal, scrolling to comments i can agree it becomes a bit laborious but its not that bad, but agreed it could be worked on. Ive honestly been using "evernote" to copy an article template into and reuse that to write the base post then dump into steemit and refine. its really fast for me. great comments thanks