My frustration has nothing to do with making money. I’m not here to generate another revenue stream as I have enough and money has never really been a motivating factor for me. I’m here to be involved in something layered on a blockchain but so far I am not impressed.
Discovery
Discovering new people to follow is difficult. My feed is terrible. It’s full of sub-par content and this goes back to my discovery issues. When you onboard a new user the first thing the user should see is category subscriptions. From this point, the user can find content and users to follow.
I see a lot of users rehashing the same stories. Why doesn't steemit have a link field for the source of the article that cross checks against existing submissions? Hello 
Users with high rankings (50+) rule the trending and hot pages and their content isn't all that great. Some users post so often all I see is their content. Again, their content doesn't seem worthy of these high rankings. Rankings should fluctuate and not just go straight up.
What’s up with all these bots.
Are the bots overrunning the users? I’m cool with some bots and I would like to try one to see how they work, but there’s just too many and it seems like they are either holding the site together or ruining it. How about someone build a bot that tells me if someone replies or mentions me?
Replies without notifications?
When I get replies, I don't see notifications. Why? If I don't check the replies tab nobody is getting a response from me. If someone 
Draft mode?
Does seemit.com have a draft mode for postings? If they do, where is it? Sometimes I want to start a post, think a little deeper than restart where I left off.
Is the team subpar or strong?
While I have only been on this platform for a very short while, I’m wondering if the steemit team has the technical chops to build basic features into this platform. It’s not like they don’t have existing platforms to learn from like reddit, hacker news, fb, twitter or open source code to fork. I’ve forked code to make it work how I need it to work so anyone who can read and write code can do this.
Does this site have a voting algorithm for submissions and comments? If so, it needs to be scrapped and rewritten with a new scoring algorithm. It shouldn’t matter how many followers you have. Good content is able to rise to the top without follower model on many sites. This is truly a beta site now is the time to push code rapidly. Experiment, try new things, see what works and be public about it. Failure breeds success.
If people didn’t make money would they be here?
Steemit is just a basic socially structured website layered on-top of a blockchain and there’s really no reason for a newbies experience to be so shitty.
If anyone can provide active discord or telegram channels where I can get some answers please share.