hi @dutybound ... a lot of your ideas here are interesting. Some have been talked about in various forms. The subject of UI came up at the Witness Chat in The Ramble this past Wednesday. Well, on Steemit Inc anyways. They want to do some work on it but right now they are tied up with the pending HF21 and preparations to bring in Communities and SMTs.

As frustrating as it is, we have to remember that we're just 3 years into this project. A lot of the UIs we're used to are on conventional platforms and are far more mature. Doesn't mean we shouldn't dream eh.

The 13 week power down was 2 years when I joined the platform. There has been some proposals put forward to allow a stakeholder to withdraw sooner by paying a 'fee' of sorts which would likely be burning Steem.

Ideas are great, they are where change starts. As for WP .. I am really not a fan of their current editing approach. I have played with it some but don't find it as intuitive to use as the classic editor. Yes, the formatting power is there but you really have to work with it to get that benefit.

I've used WP since its early days, when you only got things working how you wanted by going under the hood and customizing the HTML.

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