A little bit more than a Rumor :
We all know there are changes coming to Steemit, and hopefully they will all be changes for the better. This particular improvement is now more verified by the document linked below. 'Communities without censorship' is a difficult and narrow line to walk, and I do not pretend to have a better answer. What I can say is that, here at SteemTrail, we will assume that our good example has led the way. https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com/wiki/Community-Spec-%5BDRAFT%5D
Curation Tool : @triddin made a very handy tool for those searching for posts by tag or keyword. "Seeress Trail Watch" takes your parameters and searches the whole blockchain for posts that you might be able to use on your Trail. Setup is one click and one string of tags, then you start seeing a separate stream of posts inside Discord (like a DM about articles specifically about your topic), updated almost immediately. You can start your stream here >> https://discord.gg/EsnuQkE
A week of increase: Perhaps due to the increased awareness provided by the SteemTrail Daily!, This has been a week of significant increase in both Trails and Curators.
@jedau added to fiction-trail @nikflossus added to fiction-trail @uwelang will be curating history-trail, beer-trail, and german-trail @bitcoinparadise crypto-trail @duhiki homesteading-trail @kooshikoo basicincome-trail @chrisasiki basicincome-trail @claudiop63 technology-trail.
A Trail for which YOU may be the curator we need : Dance-Trail has one post. I'm not particularly interested in dance, yet I have seen dozens of dance posts go by my feed. Imagine what you could find if you searched for them? Perhaps enough to spark your creativity, maybe enough to encourage you to do that video you have been meaning to do? Or maybe just enough to make you happy watching people dance. Ask about becoming a curator at SteemTrail
Have fun! Steemit is a great community. And your participation in the SteemTrail initiative will help to make it better and propel it to the next level.
Thank you for helping to make SteemTrail successful. Together, we’ll continue promoting participants and the Steemit community as a whole.
@triddin made a very handy tool for those searching for posts by tag or keyword. "Seeress Trail Watch" takes your parameters and searches the whole blockchain for posts that you might be able to use on your Trail. Setup is one click and one string of tags, then you start seeing a separate stream of posts inside Discord (like a DM about articles specifically about your topic), updated almost immediately. You can start your stream here >> https://discord.gg/EsnuQkE 
@jedau added to fiction-trail
@nikflossus added to fiction-trail
@uwelang will be curating history-trail, beer-trail, and german-trail
@bitcoinparadise crypto-trail
@duhiki homesteading-trail
@kooshikoo basicincome-trail
@chrisasiki basicincome-trail
@claudiop63 technology-trail.
@steemtrail, 02/07/2017
@instructor2121, 
@anotherjoe
@baerdric