So, for anyone who has been around Steemit for at least a few days can see the potential in the platform and that it potentially can be bigger than youtube. But even-though Steemit is going mainstream sooner than it predicted, it needs to put its foot to the floor with some of these changes because it just takes 1 major youtuber to open Pandora's Box.
User Traffic - Many services completely underestimate the amount of Traffic they they get the first couple of Months.
or any of the Steemit crew, what you are experiencing now is nothing. Mass adoption of this platform can happen overnight, and if you aren't ready, the website might be consistently down or very slow to load
UI -See my article here detaining Features Steemit Should Have Click Here
Account Creation - Although I talked about it in #2, this is really important to bring up. Steemit creators basically know that when they have accounts created and setup within mins of the request, the flood gates are open. From what I understand, they are trying to put down the framework before doing this. The problem is, if they wait to long, if it starts going main stream before they want it to, it will significantly turn off users
Freedom of Speech vs Censorship - This is a big one. Ideally, people will go away from youtube and come to Steemit to have free speech, but there will come a time when groups that are considered "Hate Groups" post unflattering material. Steemit has to be prepared for this and how they will handle it (IE Sex Traffickers, Child Po.rn, Terrorist Groups, ext...). I'm not necessarily talking censorship, but what would they do if people posted that kind of stuff
Transparency - From what I have been able to tell, the Steemit Staff has been open about what they have been doing with every change. But for each change, they have to find a way to notify content creators as even though they may post something, creators may not see it. The worst case would be that they pull a "Youtube" and alienate users
What do you think? Is there Items I missed? Let me know below.
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