RE: What Are The Most Frustrating Things I Had With Steemit? (We Need Solutions!)
I don't have much of a problem with the Steemit interface. At least other than the useless trending tab and the poor search options. I do check out the new tab from time to time but I don't spend huge amounts of time there. Sure, the interface is fairly simple and not terribly feature rich but it isn't bad and there are several other steem interfaces out there besides steemit (busy, etc.). I think part of the issues you mention are about knowing how the steem community works. To really get upvotes and effectively curate you have to cultivate your own communities of interest. Follow, upvote but especially comment on content that interests you. Search out specific tags (again, a better search would be nice).
There are many curation and other community projects out there for specific subjects...gaming, art, photography, etc. Find one or preferably several that fit you interests and/or create your own. Random posts and upvotes in isolation won't get you as far in most cases. Other that more robust search options I'm not sure what could be done to change that by changing the user interface and I'm not sure that would change much.
i agree with what you said, the interface is not entirely bad but i think for our numbers it needs a little update. From the time that they decide to have a team behind the platform they can't really expect everything from the community (busy,steempeak etc etc).
Even if you join a curator team, it's a bit hard depending once again in the numbers to find posts. Usually they have a post promotion page were every 2-3-5 minutes you see a new post pop up and because all of these are in discord you have to keep on scrolling once again! What's helpful though is when they make some weekly posts that highlight some users!
Interaction is the key as always but you need a little bit of luck too i think and generally other factors take place. I know that cause i tried for a long time by doing per day over 25-35 comments and actually read each post (normally i had open 25-35 tabs each day). The outcome given the time i spent was not good, but at least i did it cause i liked it, now i just don't have the time to do the exact same thing