RE: HardForked 2: The love Triangle Continues
Very good.
I wouldn't have thought it, but I'm actually benefiting from HF21/22 now. (My understanding is that HF22 happened shortly after HF21's chaos ensued.)
There are people who weren't curating before who have been forced to curate now. I am one of the people they curate, so whereas my only highlight of my blog was the fortnightly curie upvotes (for my writing), I'm now getting a lot more support.
Unfortunately, with the price of Steem continuing to plummet (along with the other blockchains, I have to note), it's still not a healthy situation.
One of the points of HF21 (I thought) was to try to bring in new accounts for the simple purpose of curating... so far, I don't see that happening. Without a better strategy for bringing in new consumers, it's still going to sell everyone short.
I believe one of the factors of the price dropping is the lack of user retention and new steem isn't helping that. I like the concept of #newsteem but not how its been implemented.
Its great to hear that the hardforks have increased the interaction your blog gets.
Lack of user retentino is one of the biggest threats to the platform. Why do they leave? Because they can't even get started... RCs ruined that. Sure, if someone notices and delegates some steempower, then maybe... but if they're not noticed?
Or the fact that our votes appear to be useless/meaningless?
I first hit 0.02 SBD upvote when I hit 80 SP. I'm now at 1500 SP (net) and still at 0.02 (on a good day.) I hit 0.04 briefly about a year ago - just before I became a minnow.
R.C. was a horrible addition to the blockchain. The higher ups at Steem(it) need to realize that people aren't going to come here and pay for things they can do for free on dozens of other sites.