Congratulations to you @boycharlieplays for this great achievement. You sure deserve it. Congrats again.

My experiences on steemit has been wonderful, in short they have blown my mind, but I would like to talk about the experiences I would like to be addressed:

• When new people cannot join it is a real problem. The platform is struggling to grow yet so many stories of new accounts not being opened for days, weeks or even months. Come on, in this digital age it almost takes as much time as sending snail mail letters across continent in the last century! This process could be so much simplified and bad accounts suspended if they violate the rules but give people instant access. Give them a chance. or they will lose interest and move on, being discouraged.

• Too complex to bring any money into the system or more importantly take it out of the system. Too many conversions instead of a simple fill up the account to "refill" the balance if you need to or simply "withdraw" in one click or so. It should be way simpler for wider adoption of those who just want to blog and keep it simple.

• Too confusing with so many metrics - STEEM, STEEM POWER, VESTS, REPUTATION, STEEM DOLLARS. Unclear relations between them so much that only a lazy Steemit user did not write some sort of FAQ about what they are, what they mean and what are the relations between them. It is not for a faint of heart simple blogger who can write brilliant content but not necessarily so much technically savvy. But without that kind of people, the platform has very serious social limitations.

• Steemit is THE ONLY “social” platform that does not have direct messaging between members. Without direct messaging there is no real way for people to engage on a level beyond blog posts. Also lack of direct messaging inflates the whole platform by bloating some posts with a lot of lame remarks like “yeah, thanks for voting”, “oh me too”, “upvoted you”, and a lot of other exchanges that are more appropriate in chat or in direct messages. Ok, I know that there are so many other options available like official yet unofficial steemit chat, discord, skype, whatsapp and so on. But there is no one official way to send a message to another user and be sure it will be delivered. Not everyone is on the official “unofficial” steemit chat, often their user names do not match and so on, so it is not really a serious option.

Apart from these issues, steemit has been a total awesomeness. Thanks for this privilege of sharing this. Enjoy.