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RE: Growth Needs Retention - The "Theme Park Idea"
I 100% agree that our major challenge is product.
If we solve product, we solve retention, and ultimately the long term driver of growth is retention.
On the feature side, this is what onboarding and communities are about... but there's going to be a lot of design and re-design work coming in the near future.
As you noted, the onboarding or 'welcoming' process is a key part of people onto Steem, and right now we seem to make onboarding as hard as possible. This, and many other things, will be changing.
So let me affirm, we are 100% dedicated to boosting retention with product re-design. It just turns out that we have a lot to do in a short amount of time! :)
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your point of view, Mitchell!
I am really looking forward to all these measures that will contribute to make the product even more attractive. However, most of the things we experience are defined by emotion (and not only through hard facts). In this case: the desire to get a piece of the cake. The fact that bloggers are financially rewarded is already a huge selling proposition for steemit. Only by optimizing the onboarding, providing some helping hands (first-steps tutorials, mentor programs, best practice showcases etc.) the retention could be improved considerably. The aim should be that everybody could theoretically become a no. 1 blogger on the platform. A successful and happy user is a user that will stay and bring others (like it happened in July 2016 when the product wasn't even what it is today :)).
Time is often the biggest challenge of all, yeah tell me about it :)
Best of luck for all your doings, we are here to follow and support you and your team!
Thanks! We're working hard to make sure we have awesome things to show for you. :)