RE: Delete Steemit.com. We can do better.
I'm completely with you.
I can't understand how it is still possible in 2019 to have such an ugly, old fashioned interface. I'm only a hobbyist when it comes to site building, ad placement and so on, and everything about this interface is wrong.
The layout looks like a site developed in 2002, and they obviously has to find a quick fix when starting to sell advertising. That banner at the top was a nice try by someone who had no clue about whet he was doing, but come on... That's not the way it works anymore.
A modern, attractive landing page, maybe with blocks that display all the different opportunities that are available on the Steem blockchain (using an aggregator, styled like one of those awesome magazine themes you find for WP, for example) would give people a much better idea about how interesting and versatile this blockchain is. Not to mention, it would look a lot more appealing and would definitely bring in more people
My background is marketing and merchandising and I can't understand how this is the best on offer after 4 years. It goes against everything I know about product development and sales. I know that steemit.inc has other priorities in the running of the chain but for me we need to get the basics right.
It's no good that the engine runs perfectly if you are trying to sell a beat up car with bad paint, rust and dents all over it. You need to have it look well as much as running well. People want the full package and while the existing users know how good the system can work for outside investors this is what they will see.
This is what I will be pushing for as soon as the proposal system comes online as a priority. I don't have the skills to do it but it wouldn't cost the world to get a live and well designed webpage up and running. They also own steem.com which would be ideal to get this set up on and somewhere that we could all direct traffic to. Take out the steemit part altogether and send people to all of the blockchain.
Once you have this it would be time to set up some marketing groups and start to sell people on what we have here but there is no point until we have the basics right. It can all be done easily enough and bring more people in here. It just takes a plan and people willing to do it.