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RE: Medium is now Smaller, and this is excellent news for Steemit!
It's an interesting article, and I uprooted. However, the garbage, antiquated, and p**%-poor interface of Steemit will be one of the hurdles for sure - amongst others mentioned herein.
I think that's a bit harsh kuching. The steemit ui isn't all bad and if you look at esteem and a few of the others, you can see that it's fairly easy to redo the UI to suit particular tastes.
Steemit has programmers doing UI. Medium has designers doing theirs.
Hi @willimabanks - come on, let's be honest here. Steemit is a clunky, techie-driven poor excuse for a UI. Creative types and 'designers' would absolutely HATE it (as do I). It reminds me of something from 1998.
There is NO way creatives would put up with it, I'm quite sure.
Have you used Medium, Wordpress, or other modern platforms, like Bravenet? (even LI is better, and FB allows all kinds of things to be added, uploaded, etc. with a simple click).
While I think it'd be great to capture some of this Medium audience, it's likely not in the cards.
Steemit's UI never was intended for people from Medium.
But we do have alternative UI's they just aren't here on steemit.com
That's kind of the point though. Integrating a steem backend into medium would be good for them and good for us, a total win/win.
Love the idea. Good luck! You will certainly need it, given the current state of play of this platform.
BTW not just the UI - there is a much deeper conversation on the 'fairness' and the propensity of only 'whales', half-naked (or fully) women, and sports to dominate this nascent platform. UI is HUGE; this is even bigger IMHO.