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RE: SteemPress ready to curate Steem-powered WordPress blogs with 1 million Steem Power
100% agree. The growth of Steemit and anything related to it all hinges on new people being able to sign up without a waiting period.
This signing up is now just disgustingly bad. All my friends gave up just because of this. 10 people tried and just gave up...
With only a couple hundred of people signing up per day it will never become big. It needs to have a minimum of 10.000 people per day and even than it takes years to get the world on steemit.
The new accounts need Steem to fund for the bandwidth required to interact with the blockchain, so if people are willing to put up with the long wait times and verification process for a free account on the bank of Steemit then they are in, but otherwise they have to fund the account themselves through anonsteem. Steem is big and will continue to get bigger simply because the search engines are slurping up so much content that really soon we will dwarf any and all other content publishing platforms, at least that's what I think.
I agree. I tried to set up a different account awhile back and I still have not been approved and that was 3 months ago.
I think this is a way to force people to pay for registration so that Steemit can profit off of the new account registration. Before it took me a week to get this account and I was ready to be a Steemian!
Growth can happen in a complete vacuum of new users simply because of the content being published, for everyone to see. The problem of onboarding more content creators is hard to overcome without verification because of the cost on the network of Steem required to transact with the network for each account and that Steem being locked into spam accounts or accounts people hardly care about/lost passwords and/or outright taken out powered down.