I joined steem 2 weeks ago. I spend most of my time on steemit compared to fb, twitter . Steemit is the future of social media . It was complicated to understand steemit when i first came here , but i am learning !!

Interesting concept, if implemenented rightly i feel it would make navigation easier. My major problem though is the the way the site runs, it feels everytime i open a page, i get to download the entire website as it consumes a lot of data, like cache isn't in place.

Nice post .upvote and resteem sir.thanks

It is said there are two kinds of people, A types and B types. I see you as an A type, a go getter, one who has goals, works hard to achieve, needs full understanding and finds satisfaction in doing. Then there are people like me, the B types, and yes we are kind of lazy, can get along without knowing everything, and pretty much take things as they come. My kind, of course, often miss out, but hey, we are happy, especially happy because people like you enjoy making things easier for people like me, so yes to the circular city, yes to the logic, and yes to a prosperous new year of understanding.

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at first this was an alien planet for sure no doubt but again arrived with my UFO :D

It would certainly be super interesting if communities form around the functions currently performed by Steemit, Inc. And if the layout clarifies the structure of the DAO, i.e. which community performs which function. I don't know if and how much the global culture has matured to be able to create a real DAO (most people have been taught to complain or wait for someone else to take initiative), but how exciting it would be to see large groups of people chip in a little bit to fulfill at least some of the functions Steemit, Inc. fulfills currently! I hadn't thought of this before and I take it as the major part of your suggestion, hidden behind what initially seems to be just a UI/UX idea. :P

As for the pure layout aspect, it's a bit difficult to put myself in a newcomer's shoes and see what might be intuitive (although the circular layout you sketched seems intriguing to me). But one way of arriving at a visual presentation is through something known as [design sprints](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvdO0G4uQgc). This methodology could be utilized to determine the design of the front page of the steemit.com website, showcasing its ecosystem of communities.

Your post is intended as a suggestion for what the steemit UI should look like when communities roll out? Anyways the visual part of it would be very appealing. Right now finding the content you like here is not easy.

Mark me in the more structure camp. It would be nice to see some positive changes. In addition to structural improvements, I would like to see a system that rewards content that drives outside traffic and returning rewards for content that goes viral after payout.

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I find new user retention is a challenge for steem; Especially the long sign up process does not make it any easier. Sustainable communities might be a great way to help this process, and we can already see this at work on steemit.

nice point of view! i wish in 2080, we will create a real country of cryptocurrency and love, without war!

Gonna have to read this a few more times to chew on this piece. Really good and meaty stuff.

The image you used with the circles is very similar to the Apple Watch UI. 

So it could be an interesting way of navigating steemit on a mobile device. Although Apple didn’t use that UI in their iOS devices for a reason, they only used it in the small watch.

wonderful explanation. more is higher in the pyramid.

I think general notice looks like good that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency work without any discrimination, so that everyone enjoys the greatest benefit

I think it will be good to work without any discrimination between them, so that bittakane and cryptocurrency users will get benefits and customers will get the benefit.

I would put the witnesses at Steem's core. Whatever Steemit Inc would like to roll out in the Steem blockchain gets decided by the witnesses.

In my view Steemit Inc is not at Steem's core. If Steemit Inc ceases operation today, Steem can still continue.

Although I certainly hope that Steemit Inc will continue to dedicate their developments, support and resources to build and grow this platform. Look at what it is today, they are doing a tremendous job!

Proof of brain is such a genius idea. Steemit is a great way to monetize our brain work, rather just waste them away in Facebook or etc.

New information for me @kevinwong thank you so much

The fluctuations of steem are subject to the importance of its traders and their ability to make them known

very good post

I am with you @kevinwong, great point of view. But I think a major part of the maintenance problem is how easy it is for the new user to understand how Steemit works without having to make a million searches or stumble in the dark.

I would like to think of having a forced pointed period in which the new member is trained in a virtual training center on various aspects of operating in the Steemit environment as well as those who are familiar with their own community responsibility. And that would be the same as the work.

Your imagination is broad enough to think of these things.

Thanks for this!
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Nice post @kevinwong

i guess everyone should read this fine post so cool for everyone !!!

Well said @kevinwong. You've great explained here about steemit platform. Better comparison with another company schedule. Thanks for giving info.

I feel, as a newcomer- that the structure should be like an on no - with core and layer. The core is to be a steemit and busy etc. - a simple place when on be can access content, publish it as BFF get some basic info about his stats.   The layers are to be additions that are more advanced, sophisticated and complicated.  Say communities of art, poetry, programming and so on, a marketplace honoring steem and trading real world stuff.  
That way a newcomer will be able to feel safe at first when he accesses the core of steem, and advance father when he feels ready for it.

I believe there should be button like categories for every post. A single category that can be activated when submitting the post. Tags are too messy

@kevinwong This place is like a paradise for content creators! Full of quality content, populated with quality users. I love Steemit, it offers reliable information especially regarding cryptocurrency. And the most important thing, Steemians always respond and help each other out!

I'm addicted to this website!

@kevinwong I agree with your points about some kind of organizational hierarchy UI/UX, because, like you, I remember in 2016 when one could easily scroll through the "new" tab, skim through all the content and curate fairly easily. Now it's more like a torrent of new voices and content flooding in.

I'm still on the fence about communities, because I'm not convinced it will help increase discovery and engagement more than it would create ever increasing walled gardens reinforcing the opposite behavior. From a relative standpoint, the Steemit community is still small, the retention of new users remains a very relevant problem and user engagement (for a social network) is significantly lower than users on competing platforms.

On the subject of the UI/UX, I'd love to see some Introduction to Steemit tutorials and videos and some clean and clear marketplace to introduce new users to the DAPPS built on the STEEM blockchain (Busy, BBChain, Zappl, DTube, etc) on the user dashboard. I think one major component to the retention problem is how easily (or not) it is for the new user to understand how Steemit works without having to perform a million searches or stumble through the dark.  Just look at the angst each new user has around understanding rewards payouts, then see how it translates to vote weighting and so on.

Let's get a Steemit UI/UX which makes adoption and understanding easier.