@beanz - you nailed it. These are definitely three big issues with the mass adoption of Steemit.
- One solution that has been proposed for this is to allow users to sign up for an account by buying 3 Steem using Bitcoin. Granted there are only a small set of users that would be able to do this, but most of the people who are against having a Facebook account would probably fall into that group.
- The password issue is a big one. I know @dantheman has been considering various options with this. The key though is that if users don't use secure passwords, someone will be able to crack them. It would be a publicity nightmare if after Steemit got going mainstream - millions of users got their accounts stolen and hacked. I think they are trying to find a good balance here to preserve security, and still allow for users to be, well.. 'users'.
- Yes! Yes! Yes! All of my non-Steemit friends are saying the same thing. The community definitely needs to work on making the content that bubbles up to the top more mainstream appealing. Not only that, but the people that are producing the type of content mainstream people are into, are not making as much because of where all the big payouts are going. I will say though that this has at least gotten better, even though there is still a long ways to go.
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beanz (68) 8 years ago
- I'm beginning to wonder if Ned and Dan are intentionally slowing down the growth of the platform so that it doesn't get too big too fast... The userbase it has now are all techys, anarchists and crypto heads making it easy for us to imagine where steemit is going. But to the outside world this probably won't be what attracts them to the platform. Perhaps the platform needs to be ready for certain types of users...
- Please read the link I attached under "I suggest we use keys and I mean physical keys you hold in your hand". This link purposes a user friendly solution to the password problem that is also extremely secure.
- Somebody here suggested that the home page could adopt an algorithm like the one Google News has. What that would mean is the top three trending posts would be at the top, next would be the top post of a trending tag, next the top post of the next trending tag, and so on... This would mean you could see a top photography post, life post, perhaps money, or whatever happens to be the most used tags. This would make steemit look like a much more diverse community of bloggers that would make it easier for a newbie to visualise being successful here.
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timcliff (73) 8 years ago
- Who knows. I've suspected for a while that they are in their dolphin recruiting stage, and will move on to more mainstream users once they enhance the site and move out of beta.
- I'll check it out 😀
- Agreed. I have ideas very similar to this in my list of feature requests that I put together. You can check it out here.