Hi again @taskmaster4450

Indeed, this fork went smoother than I expected. I think that many people expected witnessing some real issues since this fork was quite serious.

While there is a logic to this, the challenge comes in having too many HFs. They are not easy and a lot of external parties (i.e. exchanges) have to align themselves with the new code.

That make sense.

I wonder how will this fork impact users behaviours. So far it seem that most people will be upvoting content which is already popular.

When I upvoted post with 0$ then my upvote was worth only 1,04SP and it used to be 1,7SP before the fork. However when I upvoted the highest post in trending page (100$) then my upvote increased reward by over 2 SP. So pretty much it doubled in strength.

So somehow pushing your content to trending page will bring some solid traffic. And those authors who cannot somehow find a way to push their post to trending page, will have it harder than ever before. At least that's how I see it.

For that reason I really cannot see how HF21 and HF22 could help with mass boarding. New users will be giving up right away without ever being noticed and having absolutely no rewards. STEEM is turning into "club of privillage users".

Signing up new users is just one step. Maintaining them is much harder and currently I don't think Steemit has anything to offer for newbies :(

ps. Are SMTs coming to STEEM blockchain today? Will it be introduced together with HF22? I wasn't aware of that. WOW.

Upovte on the way
Yours, Piotr