Hi my friend,

Thanks a lot for the mention of my article with @happyvoter. I will gladly give you my analysis after 3 months of HF21:

What is worse:

Because of prices but also because of lower rewards and flagging, the number of users have significantely dropped. There are less articles and less interaction. What I regret is that a lot of users were scared away by the missionary attacks to erase every kind of paid upvote on steem. So in a nutshell the ecosystem became smaller and the interaction levels dropped. This is certainly not favourable. In addition to that it has become almost impossible to evolve on steem without investing. Somebody starting with nothing can't claimb the steps to get some SP.

What is better

I believe that we have today much better quality of posts on steem. The "shitposts" are still around but they don't get any votes and this is not bad. The people who remain on steem are very dedicated and I think with this basis it is possible to grow.

Another great point in the last 3 months is the development of @project.hope

I believe that @project.hope has become a real community and everybody is working together to develop it. I met @crypto.piotr last sunday and we spent many hours talking about how it may develop. There are some very good ideas in store ;-)

Best regards,
Achim