I get that it's still in beta, which explains many things, but it is such a revolutionary concept that it shouldn't be taken lightly. It would be a shame if this incredible concept goes to the gutter. I truly believe it has potential to become something MASSIVE but with how things are now, it doesn't look great. The only motivation is for the whales to earn money. There is no serious interest for good bloggers. Most my friends I recommend it to have stopped using it.
There are some whales that are doing good work but the thing is, they don't have to, a whale can upvote literally anything regardless of it's quality and people will upvote it in hopes of getting some profits and get it into the trending meanwhile a good blogger who puts in a lot of hard work into his/her posts can stay stuck in the bottom forever with no recognition whatsoever. Frankly, it feels like we are only following the whales to earn some money, no matter what shit they post (not pointing any fingers).
As a software engineering student myself, lemme tell you from personal experience, it DOES NOT require much work to do a user interface revamp, changing the theme and adding in some extra features. Even a single person can do it on his own given a week or two, a team can handle it in a few days. User interface (along with other things) needs some serious work.
@taimur