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Yes this is tragic. We need to find a way to get back to having people here.

It's hard now, they have to find other better option to attract people/investors which also have to satisfy the existing users in profit as they are getting involved in bot delegation and vote-selling.Seeing the improvement/development speed and maturity of the steemit team, I don't believe we will see any solution soon, community cannot deal with it anymore.

If enough of us band together I think we can revive things over time. I hope so anyway. I'm giving it a try @ https://steemthat.com. I wish more people would have listened to all of those saying the bots will ruin the platform.