Steemit Needs to Adopt Medium-Style Onboarding
I actually never heard of Medium until I joined Steemit. So I decided to get set up over there.
I really like their onboarding process. They let you use Facebook to sign up, of course. But after that, they ask you to pick from a YUGE list of tags. I think Steemit should offer this feature as well. Your selection can be stored in json_metadata on the blockchain so that other clients can use it.
Another thing Medium does while onboarding is it offers you a list of people to follow. Steemit should do this as well.
Both of these ideas can be implemented without changing steemd but if we wanted to take it a step further, we could add some RPC methods to streamline things a bit. For instance, get_discussions_by_preferred_tags and get_discussions_by_feed_and_preferred_tags.
There are probably a bunch of other features Medium and LiveJournal have that are pretty much low-hanging fruit for Steemit to outright steal.
I'd like to see posts containing polls with participation happening on-chain. That could be done using custom_json operations, if we don't mind poll votes without incentive.
This along with followable tags that would be offered to the user upon onboarding would be awesome.
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Substeems. Followable Tags. Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
Moon.
I came from Medium. I am spoiled. Now do you understand?
I like the "publications", the multiple authors accounts Medium allow to set up.
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A list of suggested people to follow based on tags would be great. Steemit can be confusing to start with and people need help when they join. I hope we'll see these features soon