Recap of ALL SURVEYS

WHY ON STEEM

I like 'crypto' (Rootdraws)

Looking for more places to share my work. (Rootdraws)

A bitcointalk.org thread and curiosity (emre)

A friend of a family friend who was a Steemian (enjar)

An gateway into crypto that didn't require my credit card

allure of large rewards for blogging (mstafford)

wealth of knowledge (read: opinions) about various projects (mstafford)

sales pitch in the LTC Discord (Enforcer48)

A You Tuber talked about being able to earn for content. (mytechtrail)

A friend of mine that read about it on some forum and recommended it to me. (acesontop)

Got invited by my brother because I made funny shitposts on Facebook for free (belemo)

final year in uni when i came across a friend who spoke about a platform where i could write and earn (nonsowrites)

basically money brought me here. (nonsowrites)

SEO link building brought me to steem (cflclosers)

mentioned to me in an Ethereum mining discord (themarkymark)

I was looking into a lot of projects andprobably heard about Steem from some crypto youtuber. (midlet)

IMPRESSIONS

Complex (Rootdraws)

I didn't understand the tagging system, or how things worked (Rootdraws)

shared a post that didn't get any value (Rootdraws)

as the platform becomes more adopted, there will be more interesting content to look at and review (Rootdraws)

Bad reputation amongst crypto people (Rootdraws)

Hard to understand initially (Rootdraws)

For a normie, it's very difficult. (emre)

OMG! Can I make that kind of money????. Of course, it wasn't as easy as it looked. (jadams2k18)

I was externally overwhelmed. (enjar)

Thankfully I had a very warm welcome due to a couple of people the person who on boarded me knew. (enjar)

obviously still more geared towards a more technically sophisticated group, rather than 'the masses', (mstafford)

Steemit frontend felt like it was missing a lot of features (Enforcer48)

when I signed up there was like a 2 month wait just to get an account. (Schmoogleosukami)

probably a scam. (gduran)

At first quite difficult, once you get the hang of it it is quite easy. (gduran)

It was the most advanced anything I saw on a blockchain, accessible to the regular person. (gadrian)

in awe seeing you can post and earn crypto (pouchon)

I "landed first" on the trending page and got myself the bitter and fake taste of what Steemit would be instead of actually could be or should be. (acesontop)

Easy Money. (belemo)

you aren't going to succeed without putting in effort onto your writing like a lot of people say you will. (rishi556)

It wasn't as straight forward as i thought it would be (nonsowrites)

creating good content wasn't enough. To thrive on steem then you need to actively engage with people and build a network for yourself. (nonsowrites)

There is just so much to do and learn. (nonsowrites)

Way too user unfriendly to go mainstream (cflclosers)

lacking marketing and ease of onboarding (cflclosers)

learning curve is steep for new members (cflclosers)

I don't mind a system being complicated as I generally do not have a problem comprehending logical structures, systems, and environments. (emmanuel.singer)

For most people, Facebook is easier. (emmanuel.singer)

Holy crap there is a lot of spam. (themarkymark)

far more difficult than it should be. (themarkymark)

How are people making THIS much money for THIS level of content?!?!? (It was bidbots) (midlet)

Super hard in the beginning, really easy once you learn everything. (midlet)

POSITIVES OF INTEREST

Money for posting (Rootdraws)

Low censorship (Rootdraws)

Great people and the community. (emre)

one thing about Steem that's nice and simple is the usernames (Enforcer48)

rewarded for creating decent content and being able to curate content and have an impact (Schmoogleosukami)

no single point of failure, no censorship (gadrian)

How easy it is to develop for it. It's fun too. (rishi556)

development possibilities with custom_json. (rishi556)

I still think steem is my ticket to financial freedom. (nonsowrites)

store arbitrary information forever. (emmanuel.singer)

FAVORITE thing is probably the game of earning Steem. (midlet)

NEGATIVES / WORRIES

Value of steem (Rootdraws)

Tribalism (Rootdraws)

whales who downvoted people into oblivion (Rootdraws)

It's hard to feel great when users leave and prices decline. (emre)

Toxic people and the community. :) (emre)

Hardforks (jadams2k18)

Learning markdown is not easy for everyone. (jadams2k18)

understanding how steem blockchain works and how payments, curations and pools work is rocket science to me. (jadams2k18)

problem is often that they think they will become millionaires overnight and then they leave (jadams2k18)

Times are slow and lonely. (enjar)

my friends from the early years are long gone (enjar)

I fear many content creators of today will become yet another dead blog once they hit the wall and are unable to recover while trying to maintain such a heavy content creation cycle. (Because of 7 day cycle) (enjar)

unhealthy obsession with seducing 'investors' into the ecosystem, and there's far too much prominence placed on it. (mstafford)

If Steem cannot pick up the pace as we enter another bull cycle, it will die. (Enforcer48)

Steemians most likely spend time on Discord than the actual chain itself. (Enforcer48)

It's way too complex. Crypto is already not user friendly in general. Then, Steem adds another extra layer with the designs, DPoS, etc. (Enforcer48)

people who feel like the government is spying too much aren't going to etch stuff on a blockchain. (Enforcer48)

decisions here are made by a handful of people. (gduran)

The infighting and the current down-vote wars over opinions (mytechtrail)

I do not think the user experience is ready for the average user. (mytechtrail)

down-vote wars chasing away users. (mytechtrail)

The economics is and will always be in an unstable equilibrium state (gadrian)

Widespread flag wars! (gadrian)

password is long (pouchon)

value has dropped and lots of people have left (belemo)

At some point, i was earning enough to cover my monthly expenses. Now it's impossible to even consider. (nonsowrites)

immaturity, entitlement, and lack of passion. (themarkymark)

lack of coordination of efforts (midlet)

IDEAS/WANTS

more cross collaboration between blockchain projects (blockchains) (Rootdraws)

Crowdfund creative projects. (Rootdraws)

Integrate ethereum DAO (Rootdraws)

NFTs (Rootdraws)

Decentralized custom tokens (emre)

Contests (jadams2k18)

lot of potential in the Escrow functionality (mstafford)

place for an "Etsy" style shop where makers can sell objects, buyers can buy, and a third-party arbiter (part of the Escrow transfer) could earn a small fee (mstafford)

Casual downvotes (gadrian)

Post directly from Instagram (cflclosers)

Lack of focus on UX. In the modern age of applications you CANNOT compete without a strong and positive user experience. The impressive tech won't matter if nobody wants to use it. (midlet)

STEEMPEAK MENTIONS

Steempeak because it has the best text editor. (belemo)

SteemPeak, it is the easiest I have found to use and makes browsing posts quite effortless. (mychemtrail)

I use SteemPeak a lot. I started by using Steemit, like most people. Then I migrated to Busy, then to SteemPeak after I saw they stopped major updates to Busy. Occasionally I still use Steemit or its clones for tribes, but mainly I prefer SteemPeak, because I have the all-in-one-place feeling there. (Gadrian)

I really love the user experience Steempeak provides. Instead of needing to go out to a bunch of different websites to do this or that they have done an amazing job at integrating a lot of quality of life ( pin feature, dark mode, 10 tags, showing voting mana, witness and proposal window, tribe feeds.) (enjar)

I also know if I send a user to that front end (steempeak) they are not going get bombarded with a bunch of cryptocurrency ads. While I do talk about blockchain games from time to time people into cryptocurrency are not my main demographic and they can sometimes be scared away rather easy from whatever nonsense they have read about the topic. (enjar)

SteemPeak is my main go to these days. (enforcer48)

the others (Steempeak, Steemworld, and GinaBot), I use them because they offer me more information about posts, comments, transactions, gossip, etc... (jadams)

Steempeak is my favorite UI though. (themarkymark)

In general I'd have to say Steempeak although lately I've been obsessed with the beta.steemit.com site getting acquainted with Communities. (midlet)

I like Steempeak simply because it has the best user experience. It's the best to actually browse content, to curate, and has the best wallet. (midlet)