RE: The problem of STEEM is that nobody is talking about STEEM outside of Steemit
Wow, thanks for the long reply! And it proves that you do really curate all of Steemthat, haha!
But yes, I do think Steemit is a 'first attempt'. It's a nice start but there are so many improvements that could be made, and also I sometimes wonder if this 'style' is really the most effective form for STEEM. I am hoping that with the coming 'communities' feature, and Zappl, we're seeing more styles emerge that may be more successful.
I also think we need to have some kind of 'Steemhub' where all these extra third party tools are linked and easily discovered by people. Rihgt now there's a huge learning curve to Steemit because not only is the Steem power stuff confusing, you also have to do a lot of manual discovery on tools like Steemthat or Steem.supply or steemd.
Sometimes I feel the problem of STEEM is that it's too decentralized. A little centralization, from a user-experience perspective, isn't always a bad thing.
I'm working on compiling a ton of articles and how to guide on the best tools so that at least there is a solid place that links them all. I would love to develop more tools or have developer bring there tools over and we host them so that there are at least all of the rudimentary things one would need to do Steemit. We have alot of the pieces of the puzzle I just got to keep tieing things together and get more people on board. I agree 100% on the user experience issues. I'm working on solving some of these issue and maybe one day all of them.
Yeah I just wish it would all be integrated somehow onto Steemit. Like a STEEM 'app store' of some kind. Or perhaps a page on Steemit which acts as a 'startpage' like from back in ye olde days of the internet when those were popular. Something that gets people started in navigating this web 3.0 mess! I would call it 'Steem Plaza' and allow people to add their projects, similar to app stores, and the most popular ones would be shown at the top for easy finding. Hell, we could even introduce upvotes on them so we could support our favorite projects easily.
edit: also the steemit sidebar is terrible. I never open it and often forget it's even there. Worst place to have links, IMO. Worst place to put a Steem plaza too.
I feel the same way and alot of people do. I can't develop for Steemit and redesign their website because I'm not smart enough. I'll just build stuff that I can handle and fix what I can. I wish it was all built in too. I wrote a post about this and was told how difficult it would be...Then I thought, let me see how hard it would be and started building steemthat.com. If I can build what we have so farat steemthat.com in 2 months the people that are alot smarter than me can put some links or image links in all of this white space to make it easier for us to navigate and find stuff.