RE: Innovative Adventures - If you had a chance to change anything of the Interface of Steemit, what would it be?
Gosh where do I start? I've been on here a few weeks now and I'm still trying to get my head around it!
I was fortunately that I was suggested to join by a friend, and he posted a 'guide' that another member wrote onto Facebook before I joined and I remember seeing that it was best to post under tje 'introduceyourself' tag.
But I was surprised at how little guidance there was for newbies like myself. It was straight in to the bulk of it! No guides and rules, no 'welcome, this is where you start' tips. Even writing posts can be tricky, there is a 'Markdown Styling Guide' but there isn't much in terms of help on it - and I swear some things dont work! I didn't even understand what 'Steem' and 'Steem Dollars' were and that it's a cryptocurrency! I've already messed up trying to cash out.
We have to remember though, that this is still in 'beta' mode, which means the curators are in testing stage, so I guess we're all the little mice in a maze working things out for them. It's how website designers iron out mistakes on newly built websites, they get people to test it for them.
So, hopefully, as time goes on, the curators will iron out these problems?
I can imagine! You exactly pointed out the issues I mentioned earlier in the post. I really do think, that if the confusion remains, people will drop out of Steemit again.
There actually is a visual editor inside the post creation, however I just discovered it myself too. Click on EDITOR and it will change the interface.
I am lucky that I know some basic HTML so I figured my way out of this, but you can't assume everybody does.
Also, I completely agree. The onboarding for new users is not sufficient at all. I remember there are simply 3 links in the beginning and that's it. I remember a post "Steemit for Dummies" or something, but it is probably lost underneath all the other posts.
This is actually a really important issue. Thank you for pointing that out.. I also had a friend who could explain me the basics, but if you're without that you're basically lost. If you haven't figured it out yet, I would love to help you out :)
I hope they will iron out the problems, but I think they also need to be aware of these problems in the first place. There are so many tiny and big problems, that they also can easily be overlooked. With this post, I am trying to unearth the problems so they can be solved.