my my my words elude me when i want to recount my joy at joining steemit, it was from a facebook post of Hive account@jerrybanfield that got me curious and i decided to take action, i signed up and lady luck smile on me when i did my introductory post. i got a whales vote worth $200, wow that was some encouragement, i got hooked and evenmore so when i assimilated into the community and found out how warm and friendly everyone was, then it was just not about the payout anymore, it felt like home and not a day has passed since then that i haven't logged on to steemit, even if its to read nice post from good and consistent authors. about the interface, i thinks it was ok then and its improving daily and steemit is getting better overall.