All these months I have been on steemit, trying to stay involved and personally assess the platform. Here is what I see so far.
- However much one wishes to separate STEEM from STEEMIT, it’s not possible to do so. This fate should be accepted.
- Greater focus on the STEEMIT platform needs to occur and needs to occur now.
There is no such thing as stagnation in life. You either grow or wither. Where is the platform improvements that we have been waiting for?
I cannot find a good reason to invest in this platform given its current performance. I couldn’t care less about how many new accounts there are. That is the least important factor. The most important factor is active sustained participation. A customer base that can see a future here. That is not happening. It’s not happening because the lack of systems ability to appreciate good writers and good content. Yes you can invest a few thousand dollars and start making a bit more money here. The return is worth only for the whales who vote for each other. And they by themselves cannot sustain the platform. On the other hand not every 10th person can make even 10 dollars on a post. It might have taken them a few hours or days of work to develop the content. Why should they stay? Lack of recognition is never welcome in any business.
So where will STEEM be in 5 years?
In the few months here, I have not seen a SINGLE improvement for the user. More troubles have cropped up because of hacking. While FB develops an advertiser base, an internal market for sale of goods and services, News and other stuff, STEEMIT HAS STOOD STAGNANT.
Why can’t I log into STEEMIT every morning ad also get News, local, regional and international?. That might keep me interested.
Why is there no market place for sale of goods with STEEM?
why are there no categorized sections of posts so I can easily access posts that might interest me ?why can’t a user have a photo album? Why can’t you post short videos here directly and easily?
Some have argued that advertisers are not needed here. That is so short sighted that you can only measure it on a Planck scale.
FB has a great mobile presence. STEEMIT does not. So STEEMIT Will be exactly just here in 5 years with millions of new accounts that will come and go. The investors will leave. New investments won’t happen. At least not from this guy. How long can people wait? Not long because by the time STEEMIT tries to catch up, fave of social media would have changed into AI and virtual reality combo media.
So STEEMIT DEVELOPERS, get on with it or you will mis the bus by a few million miles.
