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Why Steemit should get ahead of Reddit and upgrade profiles pages ASAP. [Steemit User Experience] by decentralizd

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Why Steemit should get ahead of Reddit and upgrade profiles pages ASAP. [Steemit User Experience]
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<h1>1. Reddit has recently launched a 'Beta Profile' option. And I actually like it.</h1>
<p><img src="https://preview.ibb.co/e5APGQ/Screen_Shot_2017_05_17_at_11_55_04_PM.png" width="640" height="326"/></p>
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<p>You can see they have a huge focus on the users content as opposed to simply a boring list we get more of a Facebook Timeline look and feel, coupled with a sidebar that has more information about the user and the Follow button upfront and obvious. They also added a 'most active' in section which shows where the user spends his/her time.</p>
<p>These are all great changes and if they only launch it like this it will be a large improvement over the current profile page, but my gut tells me they have some cool features either still being developed or that will be released later and that is why Steemit needs to put the gas pedal on before it becomes a game of who copied who :D</p>
<h1>2. This shows they are trying to keep users on the website longer, and give them more to do.</h1>
<p>I'm pretty sure the idea behind this move is to not only give Reddit a more user focused, and centric feel but to also give everyone yet another reason to be logging into Reddit and further boosting their time on site, and unique daily visitor stats which are both very key metrics. It just so happens Steemit also cares about those same stats! So a move like this would almost be common sense in my book.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Reddit spends millions of dollars trying to constantly improve the experience of their website alongside other companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram &amp; Google and we would be wise to harness the power of all that research, Steemit is capable of doing everything in its own way, and even cool sub communities will one day be built entirely on the Steem blockchain!</p>
<h1>3. They are placing a focus on users in order to compete with other social networks.</h1>
<p>Websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube and so on all track a couple key stats to tell the overall story of how active the websites are; and they mostly pertain to users, time spent on the site, content submitted and so on, but most of all they care about the constant stream of new users and the total sum of all accounts. All of this simply results in investor considering the company more and more worthy of investment.&nbsp;</p>
<p>They are basically herding everyone up in 5 platforms so that when Steemit is primed and ready it will be a breeze to begin the massive culture shift to an open source, decentralized social era. So we would be smart to do everything they do and then some, and when the time comes, the users will be like wow, all of this is familiar to me AND you get paid? Sign me up!</p>
<h1>4. Reddit is a very large, wealthy company and they know what they are doing. Being nimble is a key Steem advantage.</h1>
<p>Reddit has been thinking this over for some time, I'm sure they have had many meetings about possibly doing this and have gone back and forth over it, but here we are and they have decided to move forward, which tells me they think this is a good idea and will provide value to their ecosystem, so being that Steemit is basically Reddit on steroids, wouldn't we benefit from implementing similar changes and keep the UX as familiar as we can while improving where we see fit? I think so.</p>
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<p><strong>So what do you think? Should Steemit also place am larger focus on user profiles and customization?</strong></p>
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<h1>Checkout my other recent posts if you missed them!</h1>
<p><strong>1. (A Steem Powered World) Why Steem-powered projects are the future of Social Media.. the attention economy is real and you deserve a portion of it.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@decentralizd/a-steem-powered-world-why-steem-powered-projects-are-the-future-of-social-media-the-attention-economy-is-real-and-you-deserve-a">https://steemit.com/steemit/@decentralizd/a-steem-powered-world-why-steem-powered-projects-are-the-future-of-social-media-the-attention-economy-is-real-and-you-deserve-a</a></p>
<p><strong>2. 5 Simple &amp; Easy Steemit Tricks to Help Your Posts Earn More, from a Professional Marketer. [Fire Emoji]</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@decentralizd/5-simple-and-easy-steemit-tricks-to-help-your-posts-earn-more-from-a-professional-marketer-fire-emoji">https://steemit.com/steemit/@decentralizd/5-simple-and-easy-steemit-tricks-to-help-your-posts-earn-more-from-a-professional-marketer-fire-emoji</a></p>
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3. <strong>A Steem-powered Twitter competitor is coming soon... &amp; if you haven't got some ZAPPL from Openledger, you're doing this wrong. Invest in a piece of social media history.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://steemit.com/zappl/@decentralizd/a-steem-powered-twitter-competitor-is-coming-soon-and-if-you-haven-t-got-some-zappl-from-openledger-you-re-doing-this-wrong">https://steemit.com/zappl/@decentralizd/a-steem-powered-twitter-competitor-is-coming-soon-and-if-you-haven-t-got-some-zappl-from-openledger-you-re-doing-this-wrong</a></p>
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4. <strong>How I turned $500 into $25,000, and will most likely turn that into millions and you can too. [aka Crypto101]</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@decentralizd/how-i-turned-usd500-into-usd25-000-and-will-most-likely-turn-that-into-millions-and-you-can-too-aka-crypto101">https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@decentralizd/how-i-turned-usd500-into-usd25-000-and-will-most-likely-turn-that-into-millions-and-you-can-too-aka-crypto101</a></p>
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<p><img src="https://image.ibb.co/jLkxoF/decentralizd_logo_steemit.png" width="450" height="94"/><br>
<em><strong>Don't forget to follow and re-steem!&nbsp;</strong></em></p>
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@ats-david · (edited)
To be honest...

Both user interfaces are awful. Is it a competition to see which one can remain worse than the other? Neither should be emulated.
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@decentralizd ·
LOL what a great way to look at this problem :p How do we do better then? DO you have any examples? We also gotta keep 3rd world countries in mind :p They are still lightyears behind and need simple interfaces.
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@frankbacon ·
Great suggestions.  The parody with Reddit is important.
News aggregation is so much stronger on this platform too.
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@decentralizd ·
Thank you and I definitely agree.
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@grognak ·
This would be great, and definitely bring in more users.
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@decentralizd ·
Thanks, I'm glad you agree! Just makes the whole experience more worthwhile imo.
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@isteemjokes ·
Any stats to back this up?

> Reddit spends millions of dollars trying to constantly improve the experience
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@decentralizd ·
I mean if you owned Reddit would you not be constantly testing new improvements? I think thats business 101...
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@isteemjokes · (edited)
LOL! You should have put a disclaimer then:

THIS IS AN ASSUMPTION BASED ARTICLE.

As to owning Reddit, now I also assume you will tell me this company is spending millions on marketing?

Like every other company does at that stage.

Check online. Surprise yourself.
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@the-ego-is-you · (edited)
It might be a stretch to assume this is actually the case, but I don't think it ruins the post. They very well might be. Either way, they are a success and can certainly be modeled to some extent. 

(They have their own flaws of course, some even related to user interface)
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@steemitqa ·
This is an amazing suggestion @decentralizd
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@decentralizd ·
Glad you think so, if only @ned could see this haha
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@the-ego-is-you · (edited)
The lack of user interface focus on Steemit is very limiting for Steems growth. Thankfully there are now a bunch of projects working on their own UIs, but getting them up to speed might take time.
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@decentralizd ·
Right? But atleast we can take pointers from companies already pursuing this route.
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@thecryptkeeper ·
I've tried to get into reddit loads of times and i just can't, i don't know why but i just do not enjoy being on it at all. Not gonna lie the whole getting paid thing lured me into this but i ended up genuinely loving this platform and the content on it, i can't get off it now lol. great article, cheers bro.
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