I currently have 10 people I'm following and I'm already worried about two things. One is that as I follow more, some of them will get drowned out which I'd hate to see happen. The second is that everyone I follow isn't going to write articles on topics I care about (as will I to them) but I don't want to unfollow them as when they put out content that I'm interested in, it's good. Even when they post majority uninteresting (to me) content, there could be monthly series or other things that I'm interested and so it would be nice to sort them in some way.
My suggestion is that on the homepage we see the feed broken down into tag related chunks. Each post could be put into the tags box and a feature to ignore tags would both remove what you're not interested in and reduce the number of boxes the devs have to fit. Another idea would be to make the box's tag changeable and only render a certain amount that can be changed.
In general I would love a steemit feed API that we could use in other sites. That way I could make this idea and have my version while also giving back to the community (for those who would use my site). Other people with other ideas could roll their own steemit feeds and we could see some quick interest in steemit. I feel that the API would only need to return a list of JSON objects with the posts name, description, picture URL, author, tags, and article URL. From there anyone could render the image along with any information they wanted and the article could still lead back to Steemit.
What are your thoughts on an API or the steemit team adding the feature into steemit.com? I feel that something similar exists as steemd used to be able to get the information but now they're under node maintenance. Does that mean I would need to run a witness node on every site no matter how much the API is used. Some sites may only refer back to an article in a fancy way once or twice compared to the site I described which is heavily using the API. I have little experience with Steemit and would love to know how I could start using it in my sites!