@kevinwong I agree with your points about some kind of organizational hierarchy UI/UX, because, like you, I remember in 2016 when one could easily scroll through the "new" tab, skim through all the content and curate fairly easily. Now it's more like a torrent of new voices and content flooding in.

I'm still on the fence about communities, because I'm not convinced it will help increase discovery and engagement more than it would create ever increasing walled gardens reinforcing the opposite behavior. From a relative standpoint, the Steemit community is still small, the retention of new users remains a very relevant problem and user engagement (for a social network) is significantly lower than users on competing platforms.

On the subject of the UI/UX, I'd love to see some Introduction to Steemit tutorials and videos and some clean and clear marketplace to introduce new users to the DAPPS built on the STEEM blockchain (Busy, BBChain, Zappl, DTube, etc) on the user dashboard. I think one major component to the retention problem is how easily (or not) it is for the new user to understand how Steemit works without having to perform a million searches or stumble through the dark. Just look at the angst each new user has around understanding rewards payouts, then see how it translates to vote weighting and so on.

Let's get a Steemit UI/UX which makes adoption and understanding easier.