Compared to a site like Quora (where I'm a Top Writer), musing.io has a lot less depth of interesting questions and answers. It's less good at identifying answers that are interesting for me to read.
While I could point to some features of Quora that musing.io lacks (like the ability to use LaTeX in math answers!) I don't think those are serious drawbacks. The biggest obstacle is probably that you have to be on the Steem blockchain already in order to contribute questions or answers--- and the signup period for a free Steemit account is still quite long. It was about four days when I signed up, and there's no way I would wait four days merely to ask or answer a question on musing.io. This will probably continue to be a drag on growth.
A Q&A site needs to find a way to bootstrap an interested and interesting base of users, which is not an easy problem. musing.io offers just very small payments even to very committed users, and poses a severe obstacle to casual users.
We plan on addressing everything you mentioned here. I think in the immediate term, the low payments to committed users thing is the most pressing issue. Other apps on Steem like d.tube and dlive.io have large delegations from other users that allow them to reward their users greatly, but we do not unfortunately :/ I am trying hard to fix this. I believe it would solve a few issues, as it would also attract many more users that can further vote on content.
Would love to chat more about things some time! Sending you a Linkedin request if that's cool :)
I think that once musing has established a group or community of users who like the site the growth will come quicker and the few day wait time to open a steem account will not be too much of an obstacle. Once musing has found the correct formula to establish a large enough userbase more people will want to join the community. I am sure all the smaller issues like depth of content and layout and features can be iterated as the community grows.
We as users should help grow the community , I feel like it can be a great and possibly lucrative site.
Good point. I am happy that they were able to move all of the Musing stuff out of your main feed so that it doesn't look spammy, but I think a side effect is that these posts are now buried from the general public. Take my OP for example. It has gotten some good response, the creators of Musing even responded to one of the responses, but the OP has gotten zero upvotes. In the past I could post much less poignant questions and at least get a couple of upvotes. I think there are definitely still some things to work through...
Compared to a site like Quora (where I'm a Top Writer), musing.io has a lot less depth of interesting questions and answers. It's less good at identifying answers that are interesting for me to read.
While I could point to some features of Quora that musing.io lacks (like the ability to use LaTeX in math answers!) I don't think those are serious drawbacks. The biggest obstacle is probably that you have to be on the Steem blockchain already in order to contribute questions or answers--- and the signup period for a free Steemit account is still quite long. It was about four days when I signed up, and there's no way I would wait four days merely to ask or answer a question on musing.io. This will probably continue to be a drag on growth.
A Q&A site needs to find a way to bootstrap an interested and interesting base of users, which is not an easy problem. musing.io offers just very small payments even to very committed users, and poses a severe obstacle to casual users.
Thanks @markgritter - this is helpful feedback.
We plan on addressing everything you mentioned here. I think in the immediate term, the low payments to committed users thing is the most pressing issue. Other apps on Steem like d.tube and dlive.io have large delegations from other users that allow them to reward their users greatly, but we do not unfortunately :/ I am trying hard to fix this. I believe it would solve a few issues, as it would also attract many more users that can further vote on content.
Would love to chat more about things some time! Sending you a Linkedin request if that's cool :)
Here's a Quora question for you, and it might help give a little exposure. I already mentioned musing.io in my reply to the only answer so far.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-useful-applications-built-on-the-Steem-blockchain-and-why
I think that once musing has established a group or community of users who like the site the growth will come quicker and the few day wait time to open a steem account will not be too much of an obstacle. Once musing has found the correct formula to establish a large enough userbase more people will want to join the community. I am sure all the smaller issues like depth of content and layout and features can be iterated as the community grows.
We as users should help grow the community , I feel like it can be a great and possibly lucrative site.
Good point. I am happy that they were able to move all of the Musing stuff out of your main feed so that it doesn't look spammy, but I think a side effect is that these posts are now buried from the general public. Take my OP for example. It has gotten some good response, the creators of Musing even responded to one of the responses, but the OP has gotten zero upvotes. In the past I could post much less poignant questions and at least get a couple of upvotes. I think there are definitely still some things to work through...
No marketing at all! Also I find the other platforms based on the Steem Blockchain still a bit unloved
Which is the other platform?
Dtube, steemit, steepshot, dsound etc