If I did not really like Steemit, I would not bother writing this here.
There are some basic features on the entire web, which one takes for granted. One is the search and the other one the navigation. I never use sites which did not implement those two properly. Well, except for now with Steemit.
Here is the thing.
While researching UTRUST I of course wanted to know what the Steemit Community has to say about them. Using the Steemit-Search for "utrust", this is what you get:
Now, here are my questions:
- Ads on top of the SERPs - seriously? And if you are showing ads, why not at least relevant ones to my query? I did not ask for ErosCoin or the Votesplatform. Btw, you can try it out - for almost any Crypto-related query, the ads are paid ICO announcements on the most part.
- Sorting. I used "Relevance". Well I have no idea how that is calculated, but it makes no sense whatsoever. All the results on the first page are articles about UTRUST with pretty much no views, no votes and no comments. While there are much better UTRUST-reviews on further pages, like the one from
. On a community with member-ranking, followers, voting, promoting, views-count and comments-count - why wouldn't you use those parameters as indicators for relevance?
- The back-button. If there is one main common pattern on the web - it is the back-button. It takes you one step back in your journey. So if you click on an article in the search results to read it and after reading it you click the back-button - what would you expect to happen? I am sure I know what you think - well not here. This is what you get:
And you can start from scratch. Every freaking time. Really guys, I have no problem with GCS, I've used it on my sites many times. But the execution is just pathetic. If GCS does not suit your needs, why not use one of the great alternatives out there like elastic, solr or sphinx?
The search and the navigation are the two most basic features of the web. How come you got them both so mind-numbingly wrong?