Hello guy's thanks for stopping by. I might have a solution for the growing pile of steemit we are currently all experiencing. As I am sure everyone has noticed its getting a little bit tougher around here lately and a lot of really great content is getting buried. From what I can understand, a few simple observations, steemit is starting to drown in it's own content!

People on steemit are posting story's more than what they are probably curating and up-voting. The post lists are updating and moving way to fast, lets take the "new" and "active" lists for example.

From what I can tell there are three major factors that will allow for the average user on steemit to have launched a successful post that will trend. Also I should mention I have factored out the promote feature as not everyone at this stage can afford to use it.

Your post is most likely to trend if:

• Your post is found by a whale
• Your post is truly a spectacular masterpiece
• You have a following of at least 500 people

In my experience your post will become basically invisible in roughly 3 minutes without any of the above influences. Only a few visitors after this will find your post from doing a search.

Let's Focus on Developing The Search Feature!

Have you used the search feature recently? You can find it at the top right of your screen :p . @steemit, unfortunately the tiny little search logo we currently have is no credit to an amazingly powerful feature.

Go and give it a try, type anything you want into the steemit search engine and see what you can find and you might be amazed, I constantly am! I often search related keywords to see if my posts are visible and to understand steemit SEO better.

My point is if steemit could take a little attention away from the update lists and focus more on visible and advanced search features it would help balance things out a bit. There is a ton of great content on steemit, I would up-vote some posts I find a million times if I could, because they are buried in a pile of steemit often with only a handful of up-votes!

Steemit, please can we update the search visibility and functionality!

Calling on a few developers for your feedback please.

@xeroc
@svk
@pharesim
@lantto
@picokernel
@heimindanger
@jesta
@omotherhen
@bitcoiner
@ontofractal

Thanks for reading much appreciated,

Cheerz!