As the title says I have started using busy. You can log in there with your steemit credentials and start using it right away. I find the busy's GUI to be a little facebook like. Not that I regret it but

  I think it’s time to launch a user campaign to improve the content on Steemit. If we look at the content with the top pay-outs most are mediocre quality and a lot are about Steemit itself.