Amidst all Steemit site performance issues, the Steemitstage beta site for Steemit has just introduced a revamp of the feed, category pages, and blog sections on its beta Steemitstage platform.
The redesign, which is in Beta (Soft)launch and may or may not be introduced on the actual live site, is long overdue because Steemit's looks are rather reminiscent of 2009-2010. Let's face that reality. 2009-2010 looks may even be a euphmism.
While the current design may have been optimal to launch the Steemit platform, as an initial and constantly expanding MVP (Minimum Viable Product), to further grow as a mainstream content creation platform, Steemit will have to radically improve its default design and also its editor. Most definitely its editor and the writing experience as such.
So far, it seems that only the feed designs have received new looks, or rather have been introduced already, on the Beta platform. The redesigned feeds are a massive improvement and also much better designed to be agreeable on mobile.
Considering this is a quiet beta introduction we will reserve any further comment, beyond welcoming the long overdue and absolutely needed change.
We hope that the initial beta rollout will see many more design changes, an improved editor (preferably closer to Medium's editor and with expanded Markdown capabilities, like footnotes) but until more components are introduced, we will just leave you with screenshots of the different feeds.
With much-improved whitespace and also a large thumbnail card design option, which should be very enjoyable an experience on mobile phones, only for now.
If you want to experience the new design yourself, head over to Steemitstage, the official Beta site for Steemit. We here welcome the redesign and are looking forward to the rollout of further design changes and improvements, as well as hope that these will make it to the live site, Steemit.