Awesome ! What's so amazing about Lofoten to make you come back all the time ? Well, quite a few things happened, at some point some people threatened to fork away steemit's stake which led to a lot of controversy : https://steemit.com/steem/@jesta/the-recent-controversy-between-steemit-inc-and-the-community-the-premine-control-and-where-it-leads-this-blockchain

This led to the idea that some funds should be controlled by the community hence the steem alliance was created, so far nothing has come out of it. they seem to constantly vote on things to decide if they should vote on things. We'll see if anything cool gets done.

steem price is too low so steemit inc decided to put smt on pause while they reduce costs : https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-engineering-update-mira-split-cost-reductions

Ah also now the wallet is on its separate website.

And most importantly the steem dao : https://steemit.com/steemdao/@blocktrades/update-on-steem-proposal-system-steeem-dao A proposal system where people can get paid for work on the steem blockchain is ready to be merged, soon tm we'll have a hard fork on that