RE: WHY ARE SOME OF STEEMIT BEST WRITERS LEAVING? ARE YOU FEELING IGNORED? WHAT CAN WE DO TO INCREASE RETENTION OF CREATIVE WRITERS? DO WE HAVE ROOM FOR SIMPLE SOCIAL POSTS? HOW CAN WE BALANCE BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND CREATIVE CONTENT?
Amen.
I just want to add that we need some more mainstream appeal. It's not just the rewards turning people away, it's the site. It doesn't have the same features as facebook and other social media sites. We're missing profile pictures and other basic implementations. I understand that the blockchain doesn't have the scalibility for that yet but it's something we really need to look at. Mainstreamers don't care about learning, they care about looking good. Not only that, they care about minimal effort. Having to switch to another website to chat is inconvenient as well. If we could somehow implement everything on the same webpage then we'd see a lot more user retention. When I first came here I was lost. I had to search through blog posts to find my way. I'm sorry to say but we need to dumb this down a little bit in order to make it all a bit more user friendly
I agree @senseiteekay really hoping for platform to become streamline and less primitive because it is hard to promote it for those setbacks. I'm sure our efforts will be rewarded for pushing through all of this early stage building, bless
Yeah I find it really hard to promote it too. I'm sure we will. For now I'm appreciative for what we have here. It's a totally new concept and I don't think we should take it for granted.
In saying that, I'm starting to notice that there are a lot of very unappreciative people here, as if making free money(no matter how much) isn't good enough for them...
Please, tell me what other social media sites pay you to blog. Pfft
(rant over) haha
I hope they can start soon they own blog or program they own social network for "serious writers" ;) so they can see how much work it is and stop to talk not sense...
And changing the topic Im agree with u about the "need of more mainstream appeal", chat on the same page, etc. It is necessary for to go really in competition with Facebook, for example
Also would love to see to possibility to post different kind of content, like sentences only, normal post, video only or image only (videos from youtube or vimeo and images from steemIMG for example) wit a side Icon showing what kind of content is.
Challenge accepted!
These social media sites pay you to blog. :)
Even something as simple as implementing an on-board messenger would help tremendously. Having an affiliated chat is awesome for post promotion and what-have-you, but half the time, I'm lucky if I can even communicate with the people I'm following or who are following me directly. It's hit or miss. At least with an on-board messenger linked to the UI, I don't have to sift through my replies on comments or open another window, and I can talk to them directly.