Welcome to Steemit!
You'll find Steemit a bit bare-bone at first, but don't fret!
The awesome community around Steemit has got you covered. Over the year many helpful sites have been created to help you keep track of what's going on, connect with others and get an all around better experience.
Here a some link you'll find useful:
Statistic sites
SteemStats is an application created to help you monitor your account activity on steemit.com, a social media platform based on the steem blockchain.
Very similar to Steemstats, but even more information.
Gives a detailed overview about your payouts over the week per post. Also monitors votes and votepower.
Gives you a good overview of your payouts over the week with graphics.
Gives a fast and simple overview of your payouts over the week.
An easy way to compare yourself to other steemians via reputation, curation, steempower etc. Like a competition :D
Chat, curation and promotion
The original chat for Steemit!
Here you can join a plethora of chat rooms each with specific topics. the chat is mostly used to promote posts, but there are also rooms with active chat. Drop into "general" chat and introduce yourself!
As I'm writing this post the site is DOWN and has been down for a day. I don't know when it will be restored.
There are many discord servers put up for Steemit.
I'm at SteemTrail https://discordapp.com/invite/S6XEAUw and Peace, Abundace, Liberty https://discordapp.com/invite/HYj4yvw
Check out these posts for further information:
https://steemit.com/palnet/@aggroed/peace-abundance-and-liberty-network-come-join-some-pals
https://steemit.com/minnowsupport/@rhondak/tutorial-for-palnet-registration
https://steemit.com/steemtrail/@steemtrail/steem-trail-daily-introduction
A forum-style site for your steem posts. Very convenient.
Check out this post about chainbb: https://steemit.com/chainbb/@cryptoctopus/why-you-should-post-on-chainbb-otherwise
Mobile Apps
Basically Steemit on your phone :)
Check this post for info:
https://steemit.com/esteem/@good-karma/esteem-spotlight-top-users-and-giveaway-2-2017623t85513623z
Like Instagram, but on Steem!
Check this post for more info:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@steepshot/steepshot-ios-alpha-0-0-1
Even more sites
Check out http://steemtools.com/
A comprehensive list of most if not all steemit and steem related sites ever created! Take your pick :D
I hope this post was useful to you!
While the amount might be overwhelming that steemtools lists, you don't need to use them all. Browse through them and use what piques your interest. Like you see I only listed some sites, because I don't use everything. And the ones I use, I don't use them all the time either.
I'm mostly on Steemit.com , but this post is posted from chainBB