RE: Steemit's Got Issues! - User Friendliness and Site Functionality - Take 1
I just started using @armandocat's chrome extenstion and it's freaking awesome! Thank you ✨
I absolutely agree with the learning curve of steemit - it is really steep and unless you are tech-savvy, it is impossible to continue on the platform.
In the past months, I have had some of my musician buddies and content creators join the platform (@rohitvasudevan, @mistavirus @donnacharlie) - they make amazing content. But since the learning curve was so steep (inspite of me giving them day long tutorials) they are not posting anymore or are very irregular.
Even my own academy's account @muziclub has been stagnant since it is difficult for me to maintain two accounts with all the other work and it is such a task to train someone to do it.
The other social media companies are working since they make it very easy for the user to put content on their platform - post a link, write some stuff about it, put filters on a pic and hashtags, take small videos and make stories and voila! Anyone can do it.
But for steemit, you have to learn:
- blogging with markdown: this itself is a great deterrent for people. A potential solution might be to make this as easy as possible like you are using MS Word.
- learning to promote your stuff. You have to spend a loooot of time here to understand how this actually works (and it's again a separate issue which you have discussed in your first post and I am sure the topic will arise later).
- it is just not easy to browse and find stuff you like. More user-friendly browsing options are needed.
These posts of yours are such a wonderful idea @michaeldavid - they are going to bring about some real change. Thank you for doing this. ✨ 🙏🏼
Will keep participating and giving my two cents (quite literally as well) where it helps. 😁
Awesome @hardikv. This was a wonderful response!
Everything you said here is spot on. The real key to getting people here and getting them to stay is making it easy to understand and use. Rewards can be difficult to get if it is easy but both being hard is a huge deterrent.
Adding new things to this platform before correcting these usability issues is pure folly and could even prove disastrous.
Blogging in markdown is quite limiting and does add to the learning curve. I think most of us have learned what little we need and kind of stick to that lol. I know I do.
Learning to promote here is just a fuckin bear man! This is probably the most elusive and difficult part to learn. Once you do learn it even seems super unfair.
Thanks for putting in your 2 cents! We definitely need more comments like this to get conversions moving along.
oh yea, that app is awesome! best one yet in my opinion! Wish it were all here though