A steemit UI/UX rant, report on my progress here, new steemit memes (steemes!) and a shout out and recommendation for tools to make steemit life easier for us all by steemitizen: @netuoso

Hey Again, Steemitizens!

We will be covering a lot of important ground in this post, so let's get started!

Here's my 21 day progress report on steemit.

I'm posting this for my archives, and maybe some motivation for others about what is possible here and well, just out of sheer enthusiasm for this incredible, vibrant, warm, homey community we have here.

I'm so glad to be a growing contributor, helper, helpee, and friend to all the lovely folks I am meeting along the way.

Here is my 21 day progress by the numbers:

• 592 followers | 2220 posts | 615 following

• Joined Steemit on June 12, 2017

• A Steemit.Com user for just 21 Days

• Maybe at most 80-85 hours of sleep, averaging 4 hours per 24.

• One 12 Cup Coffee maker @ 2-3 pots per 24 hours. Call it 30 cups at 8oz each on avg per day. That's over 600 eight ounce cups of coffee consumed during this period.

• Voted as an undervalued post multiple times

• Voted #5 Most Sociable User on the entire network by top level comment count and replies!

• Helped a fellow steemitizen build a new well during a drought in Sri Lanka

• Coached dozens of newbies on how to apply steemit etiquette and do post markup, and made graphics for other user's posts and just all kinds of little things I can find to try and be helpful about here and in the various chat systems.

• Learned SO much from users like @adil's user manual posts and the witnesses I follow and vote for and all of you.

• Played many challenges and won some!

• Given away over $100 SBD in various challenges of my own offering!

• Broken ground on three new exciting steem based applications for the community to be released over the coming months, with the first to market intended to be the completion of http://steemchallenge.com - a game, contest and challenge directory to all the fun there is to be had on steemit, organized and curated, to make winning great again!

BUT

I followed too many people the first week.

Still cleaning that mess up thanks to the crappy UI around here.

This site's completely amateur, developer mentality-centric user interface is terrible in SO many ways.

We will never get mainstream adoption like this.

It's painfully obvious from page zero, that this site is built by developers and steemit.com doesn't have a UI/UX or solid marketing person on board.

Greeting new arrivals on the home page with
"Welcome to the Blockchain!"
is moronically short-sighted!!!

I showed the site to an author friend who wants to publish a book on here.

She's in her 60's and not a nerd in the slightest. Facebook is her expectation.

When we got to the homepage and saw Welcome to the Blockchain, well, we were no longer creating a new user for Grandma, we were off into a two hour conversation about what a block chain even is.

Surely to god, these people at Steemit.com realize that for us to get the masses, they have to start expecting to serve Joe Public and not just Jane LinuxAdmin anymore, right?

RIGHT?

IS THIS MIC ON?

But anyway, I digress into a much bigger can of crappy interface, amateur hour worms there.

So, back to speaking of cleaning up users, and watching people work!

I must extend my gratitude to @netuoso for creating a custom tool I suggested to him in a comment thread on one of his posts, to make managing followers and followed folks so MUCH easier!

He didn't know me from a donut, but he liked the idea and delivered it in the same day!

Learn more about @netuoso's super cool interface enhancements in this article and his others:

https://steemit.com/steemit/@netuoso/user-script-filter-by-tag-in-steemit-by-netuoso

I highly recommend @netuoso's work and the features he enables for us across the steemit.com web application interface.

Note: These awesome @netuoso designed features require installing a 100% safe extension in your Chrome browser where you place his scripts to affect the site when displayed in your browser, this is totally safe and secure.

Once you have them, you won't be able to live without them!

Remember folks, get out there and get to know each other. As the meeting by chance in comments on a post of @netuoso and I illustrates, many good things can come of it!

Teemwork Makes The Steem Dreem Work!

And just like that, this post is over!

Full Steem Ahead, Steemitizens!

@sircork

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