That's quite interesting, that these filters would gobble up processing power. I'd have thought it to be a no brainer, especially on simple filters like i've described. I guess I didn't think that through.

There are alternate path's to the steem blockchain. I'm not familiar with most of them, but I know they are out there. Along that line, there is another thought I'd like to throw out, that is to have decentralized servers accessing the steem blockchain, developed by the community for either love of the community or for financial profit. Doing so should leave the guys at Steemit.com to do the development of their roadmap. Anyone else can develop their own web interface and see which the market likes best.

I've been thinking about these things independently over the last few months, it's that pesky learning curve and my personal bandwidth thing stopping me.