While the Steemit roadmap is great work and gives a lot of hope for the future of this platform, there is one thing that I think should be added to it.
Internationalization / language support
When we start to get more users who write in other languages than English, we will have more noise. Users shouldn't see posts that are written in a language they don't understand because it makes their user experience worse.
On the other hand, it's difficult for users who like to write in some other language than English to find other posts written in same language. They have to actively search for them or try to persuade other users to post everything in that language using a specific tag. That is not a practical way to solve this problem, especially when we have much more users on the platform.
Two things that should be done:
- Add language specification in posts. There should be a menu where user can choose the language when he is creating the post. It's recorded in the blockchain so that all UIs can use the same data.
- Add option to the preferences that lets users decide what languages they want to see when logged in.
I'm pretty sure this a low-hanging fruit. When implemented, this will make the user experience of people who don't speak English much better. They are much more willing to join Steemit and also stay here because they can find other users who speak the same language.