This post try to compare Steemit.com (condenser) to Reddit.com only as it relates to sort functions and search.

Steemit.com posts sorting :

 Promoted is very poorly understood or used even by long time steemians "New" is barely usable with about 1 post every 2 seconds, So that leave us with Hot and Trending.

Steemit comments sorting :

 Trending? Where is "top"?
"Age"... does not work and sort selection doesn't change

For those who don't know, the Steemit logo hide a secret link that send you to a feed of everything the people you follow post or resteem. It is currently most sane way to discover content. 

 now Reddit ... 

 

Reddit with Enhancement suite addon.

 

Search...

 Sample of my current feed, do you think I care in the slightest what's on the global reddit trending page? almost no one that's logged in get to see it anyway. 

 There are hundreds of ways to improve content discovery but since Steemit.com has been at this same stage for the last two years I think it's futile to suggest them any, no matter how obvious or simple to implement it is. 

 The Trending page is a complete mess right now, has been for a while, but it wouldn't be such a big deal if there had been more thought/work put into offering different ways to discover content. 

 The conclusion of this post is that I would really like to help support development of competing general use Steem front-end. Please contact me if you're working on something. 

 Sorry for such a depressing post, I'll make another one to show all of the great content filtering that other front-end offers soon. (there is hope, but elsewhere) 

 Some example :
https://steemline.markus-kottlaender.de/ 

 http://www.steemreports.com/spruce/#/feed (try clicking on a tag) 

 http://www.steemsearch.com/ (thanks to @mikepm74)