RE: How I figured out, why SteemSports is better than I thought, but still, why it will continue to harm Steemit if few things won't be changed
If that would happen, bloggers like me probably would like to find place, which would be focused on delivering best user experience for bloggers and readers.
By many different accounts, including several Steemit users, Medium provides a much better user experience for bloggers and readers. It is designed to do that, and it does so (I can only say this "apparently", since I am a medium user only to the minimal extent that I occasionally follow links and read posts there).
Steem/it is fundamentally a decentralized blockchain project/product/platform which means it will always be different from a centralized dedicated blogging platform. That has both advantages and disadvantages. While it does include an element of blogging, it will likely never be as good a blogging platform from the perspective of user experience as something like Medium that is focused entirely on doing that.
Different products and technologies have to find their successful niches where their own distinctive advantages deliver the most value to users, and their distinctive disadvantages create the least problems. This is not always an easy or direct path (nor is it guaranteed there is any such niche at all).
I do believe that additional features could be added to steemit.com to allow users more control over how they view and interact with the blockchain, which parts they may see or not see, etc. I don't know where the developers of steemit.com plan to take things, nor how nor when).
yeah.. of course I can go and I can use Medium, but as a STEEM holder I would prefer to use any service build on top of steem.
Is it? Steemit cannot exist as decentralized platform. Steemit belongs to a company, which has own database (with users emails/links to facebook accounts/phone numbers/etc).
Every businessman know that we should focus on advantages which this gives us, and try to avoid limitation.
I do not see any reason why Steemit could not be better than Medium
I believe, that as times goes, technology will allow to do even more in decentralize way. Maybe at some point even DNSes will be totally decentralized. But this not mean, that we have to wait for that moment.
And this is a problem. We as a shareholders of Steem, we should be aware what is a vision for Steemit, which is right now biggest application build on top of Steem blockchain.
Just to butt in here, pessimistic as it may sound, I think the vision for Steemit (the centralized service, not the blockchain - I believe the distinction is clear to you all) is advertising. From the FAQ section "How does Steemit, Inc. earn money?":
Also read the Privacy Policy in detail if you haven't already. It's pretty standard stuff, but in the context of this platform that is disappointing.
in my opinion, after last hardfork, pressure for adding to STEEM additional source of revenue is not so strong anymore. If steemit would go into direction of substeems, then maybe promoting post would be even more profitable.