The bottleneck called User Interface is becoming tighter and tighter each day because of the increasing number of users. A User Interface (UI-this is how Steemit looks to you) has a great influence on the User Experience (UX-this is how you experience Steemit).

Let me show you why:

Do you know what was going on here lately? Or do you feel like me...

Most of the time I have the feeling of missing something new and important. And the feeling of missing good content and the chance of making new friends.

Maybe this is my own fault, since I haven't got the time to be here all day. I have a family, I have a job and content creation needs lots of time too.

I want to make friends and followers

So I have to take the time to read your content. I have to know what's going on in the community. So I have to take a look at "TRENDING" and "HOT". But also in these categories content vanishes somewhere in Nirvana before I had the time to take a look. In "New" posts are just new for half a minute. So are my posts.

My posts aren't visible

Just like yours to me. I am glad joining two Facebook-groups I can promote my posts in.
Wait a minute? I need Facebook to make my Steemit-posts visible??? Maybe when Facebook goes into cryptos I will promote my Facebook-posts on Steemit? No that wouldn't work. They wouldn't be visible enough.

My feed is chaotic

The more people I follow the less I see the posts from those I would call important or friends. But I don't want to look like "oh she only wants many followers but doesn't follow anyone back." I wanted to clean my closet out. But I had to realize that this is nearly impossible to me.

Indeed my followers are closer to my heart than the other users. I do want to take a look on their content. But my feed is a mess.
I would love to sort my feed by "friends" and "news" (where I can put in the people that are my personal VIPs) and "all" (where I can see all posts of the people I follow).

I though try to sort content

But when I chose a category like "Steemit" to see what my friends and followers think or to get some news, I might see many memes or a picture of a cake with the Steem-Logo on it. This might fit to the category, but it was not what I was looking for. I enjoy reading some text. So maybe I just should unfollow everybody who is posting memes? But not everyone who posts memes does always post memes. And sometimes I also enjoy looking at memes.

So what I'd like to do is not just sorting but also sorting posts OUT

That should be possible on the whole platform. For example: When I want to read a longer, thoughtful post about a topic, I want to sort the tags DMania and Photography out. It would become much easier to find the content I want to see and friends and followers with the same interests.

My fantasy looks like this:

Show me all posts including the tags "A","B","C" and excluding the tags "X","Y","Z". Show me only posts, that are not older than 7 days. Sort by: increasing/decreasing: actuality/user reputation/upvotes/replies.

These are just some ideas, but to me the most urgent ones that need to be implemented. With more and more users on Steemit, content will be more and more invisible. And this creates developments like paid voting bots, resteem services, scam and upvote phishing. The best way to grow is by finding a target group for your posts. And niches. That means it has to be easier to make your content more visible not to all users for just a few minutes, but the ones who are interested within the seven days they can upvote it. At the moment it's more like: "Steemit, show me some random posts!"

This can't be solved with an increasing number of apps around Steemit (don't get me wrong, I admire developers... but why doesn't Steemit.Inc grab the best ones for improving the platform itself?).
I don't want to use 5 different apps to make Steemit usable for me in BASIC functions. So I am not talking about DTube or DMania here.

I really wish we soon will see important changes. Probably everyone except me already knows that these changes I wish for are coming. And I am the only one left who doesn't know about it.

Because I was too tangled in the content cables. ;-)

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