How has your musing experience been lately?

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I figured it's about time I updated my feelings about @musing. I started using it when the project was in its earlier stage. Well, before the hefty delegation from STINC. I took a brief break and came back to it when the number of users increased.

Overall, I would say my experience was all right. Sure, it was no Quora, but it was a decent alternative and a familiar niche to me. Like any dapp that relies on delegations, the lack of revenue would prove to be devastating. This happened to Musing. The activity rate went down fast.

Of course, this sudden drop in activity revealed several bad actors. Ones that used Musing to hide them milking curation trails with nonsensical inputs.

These days, I only see few well-thought out answers from people like @neil96. The rest feels like regurgitation from googling information. Hell, I have seen better writings from people hanging out at @ifc.

There are times I want to start an alt for the sole purpose of asking intriguing questions. Similar to my other accounts, the names will have to be a parody of Musing. I will think of something. But dang, there are few interesting new questions asked by the Musers (see what I did there?).

The lack of communication from @jonching and the staff (is there still a staff?) is irritating. The platform has not updated itself in months. There could be many more functions, Steem-Engine solutions, etc. But, we are here. Stagnating at what could have been a crypto Quora.

Sometimes, I want to flag/downvote all the half-ass answers I come across. They are lucky because we don't have subsidized downvotes yet and my flags tend to go to abusers.

Yet, I still write here. Musing gives me an excuse to write about my thoughts about the most mundane nonsense I could find. It's not nostalgia. It is a writing prompt generator. If I wanted to journal, they would be private and offline.

And for goodness sake, can we attach images already? I am sick and tired of linking images to Musing. I don't understand why we have the current limitation on formatting. I will complain more later, but this will suffice for now.

In short, my latest experience with Musing is an astounding "meh".

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