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RE: Why I am Confident of Continued Growth in Sports Talk Social
Happy to have you here @jon.bonomo! What are some of the things you don't care for in Steem? It gives me better insight on how we can improve #sportstalk in comparison.
Rant below. Sorry.
User interface, intuitiveness, steep learning curve, and general frustrating experience.
It's pretty telling that there are so many 3rd party sites aimed at improving the users experience. Vanilla steam is almost unusable. So many things like notifications, @ mentions, and so on should be baked-in.
Why no text editor? Using the markdown style guide in a pain now that so many other sites use text editors. Scorum is such a better blogging experience, having an editor, being able to save multiple draft posts, etc. Lots of missing blogging features on steem.
Content discovery is difficult here. So many bots and spam. It's all about in-groups etc. As a new user coming to the platform, you are bombarded by auto-spam comments about this group, and that group, and etc, etc. Everything seems forced and not much organic natural discovery compared to something like reddit.
I'm not trying to be critical. Just honest. I've blogged and published on lots of different platforms over the years. Joining steem a month ago has probably been the most frustrating experience out of them all.
In short: the site is hard to navigate, nothing is where you think it should be, and the site seems so bloated. All this leads to a steep learning curve and unpleasant experience. Combine that with so much spam both in comments and posts and it makes for a hard time.
I really do like idea of steem. I just wish the overall experience was easier and more intuitive.