RE: More relevant than irrelevant numbers
Here, have a small but inflated vote!
My non-expert low-value feedback here is that your feed is slow because there is a limit to how many times ordinary content creating Steemians can be confounded by something Steemit Inc does and still feel enthusiastic about plowing forward as if "nothing" happened. I'll leave it at that.
You don't keep going to a restaurant where they don't have what's on the menu half the time, and the food shows up cold some of the time, and the service is unpredictable. No matter HOW good the food is when it does show up, after a while you just stop going. And you stop recommending it to your friends.
Whatever great things Steemit and the Steem blockchain may "be" this place is sadly lacking in good user relations.
It is very interesting that YOU will be at SteemFest... as a community based and content creating member of Steemit, not as developer or crypto nut. I am very much looking forward to seeing what you learn when you actually get to look some of these people in the eye.
I don't know about the "behind the scenes stuff," but there seem to a lot of apologists here for the fact that Steemit seems to have wandered a long way from what the White Paper originally seemed to suggest it would become.
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The HF was a clusterfuck but, it was still necessary in my opinion and will prove so in the next year or so I predict. It changes the way the accounts are able to be created and brought in which should hopefully 'almost by default' improve the experience and process as well as set clearer usage guidelines.
I am also not personally concerned about not sticking to the whitepaper (never read it) as the market itself has changed and when it was written, it couldn't foresee what the community would demand or how it would treat the platform. Adding the earning mechanism automatically changes the way people behave so it can't be compared to other social platforms. Adding that mechanism into a faceless, open, unconstrained community makes prediction worse, especially for people who might not be the most socially adept of animals.
I am definitely looking forward to meeting some of these people in person but as expected, a lot will be missing also. Public spaces are not where some people like to show their faces.
I still find this is the most fun game in town, largely because of the uncertainty about the future. I would be more concerned if things weren't in a bit of turmoil at this point because it would mean that they are 'sure' of a future they can't know. Blinded by confidence.