RE: User Retention on Steemit Needs to be Improved Immediately!
There are a few things I can think of.
Steemit needs a better way to filter new users and identify what they are posting so that consistent users can review and comment their posts. Using third party attachment can only go so far, because it takes some technical skills and spread of word to be made aware of these features. Hey I did not know @arcange gathers all this info... Why is it not a standard of steemit. Steemit's search and "explore" is not good enough to find all the red fishes.
Steemit incentivize users who use it in the beginning. Like if you sign in everyday for a week you get double your delegation SP for a week. For a month everyday signin you get triple your delegation SP... So forth until you hit a certain SP level. 100? 500?
On the first day of signup have an interactive video or tutorial to doing things on steemit. Post on steemit, vote on steemit. What the earnings mean. Just like in a game at the beginning have something interactive to the end user. (I too did nothing to my steemit account the first month. Did not know I had to post stuff or click upvote to earn lol.)
I'll talk about 3 first. It's a great session and a good on-boarding video will surely educate a newbie quickly rather than him/her finding help and asking people for help. There's a Start Here thing available but I don't know if everyone reads it after joining. Many don't. I did though. That's probably why I am here.
Coming to 2, I think it's a great suggestion but I wouldn't suggest signing in as the only criteria. Some activity like active authorship must be there for such a reward. 100 SP is a good number to start with but with thousands of people joining everyday, giving 100 SP to each new user via delegation might mean millions of Steems. I suggest increasing the value of their upvotes without having to delegate more Steem.
I didn't truly understand point 1 hence I'm mentioning it at the last. Could you please discuss it further?
A lot of the popular posts are mostly experience users with high reputations. Users who are new tend to get unnoticed because they can not be easily found. Which makes a lot of new users quit before the first week or so. Why does steemit not have a way to filter accounts due to how old they are. It is somewhat tracked as steemd.com posts age. Also in general have a better way to search for posts. I hate every time when I click backward on steemit's search and lose all my first searches and do a redo.