Hi All,

My name is Stas, I'm from Tel-Aviv and this is my first post.

As a matter of fact I did not planned at all to write any blog especially in English (my native is Russian). I was just looking for crypto with good potential to invest some of my money and among other cryptos found steem. So I searched to get some info about it and found steemit. The idea was quite interesting and I spent about a week to learn how it works and what other people write about it. Somehow I found this post of @hisnameisolllie which was written a year ago and could not stop myself from writing comment on that post. So below is my answer to that post and my opinion about stеem/steemit.

As I told, now the price of steem is again 1 USD and now I'm asking same questions as people asked one year ago: is there is a bright future for steem and steemit? I mean future that more or less like facebook.

Actually I was very excited about steem few weeks ago when I discovered it. However, after I got more involved in how steemit works and wrote few posts in its "Russian brother" Golos.io I become quite less excited. When I say "less excited" I'm not talking about the technology of decentralized social platform which is no doubt amazing but about how steemit is simple and attractive for new users. Well IMHO meanwhile it is definitely not.

BTW, on picture is me in Santorini and it emphasize how it is to move something that does not moved by itself

We all agree that if many new users will decide to join steemit the price of steem will jump to hundreds of dollars. However for achieving this the platform should be attractive to those new users. So forget for a second that you already inside and take a look at the steemit platform as a new user. I would even say as a facebook user that heard about steemit and checking what it is. I would say that steemit is COMPLICATED for understanding and compering to FB has many disadvantages. Again I mean for simple user.

Maybe for you guys it will be surprise but simple users don't f...g care about block chain. My mom has facebook but she does not have any idea how it works, on which technology it is implemented, and who is Zuckerberg. She is just user and facebook is simple for her. Now imagine that my mom discovers that there is a new social network in internet called steemit. So she comming to this website maybe read few articles and then trying to create account. In that particular moment I guarantee 100% that she will close this site after 5 minutes. Why? Since it is COMPLICATED and not common sense.

I'm myself telecom/radio engineer and I spent a day or two to understand about all those tags, keys, SP, SD and all other stuff and even now I don't fully understand how it works in details. So what you expect from non-computer oriented simple FB user?

long keys that you must save somewhere
many different keys for different purposes. Posting, Active, Owner, Memo
no instant messages
non-recoverable password
no profile pictures (except the one small)
can't delete post
adding pictures and videos is via external links
finally poor interface

Those are just very basic things I see but there are many more.

Most of us have job and salary and we usually earn much more than we can get for here for posts. Means money is not the main reason people will spend their time here. For few dollars steemit will not "buy" simple people to spend their time in it. The keyword is time.

So you'll ask why FB catch so many people even without paying them money? Well, psychologically people are curious to see what happens with their neighbors or friends. You can dislike it but this is fact and there is nothing to do with it. This is a way our brain works. FB gives an illusion that you see what happens with others. This is the reason why almost whole world using it. Now give me one reason why people will move from FB to Steemit? It is more complicated for understanding and I can't see pictures of my college girls. You all know FB way to make it interesting and interactive i.e. tagging, notifications and simplicity.

Personally I really want that steemit will be successful and spread over the world but for this it should be somehow more attractive for new users. Better interface, more features, more common sense. Only saying that it is sitting on block chain technology does not work for most of the people. They don't give a sheet about how it is implemented.

So I found Steemit two weeks ago however the platform exist about a year. Can anyone tell me if during this passed year Steemit developers improved any major things related to interface. I'm asking that because if they did not and if they do not intend to make it more common sense then there is no way that it will catch in the world. Maybe it will be another small blogging platform but for sure not Facebook.

PS. I feel that I must apologize for quite demotivating post )) My defense is that I wrote it in order to make steemit community to look around and to do real estimations. And also for developers in order to make steemit look better and more attractive.

PPS.
I have Russian language blog in Golos.io so you can follow me there at https://golos.io/@gluk73 and I'm mostly writing about travelling in India, Africa and other places)