RE: Pointing fingers and naming names.
I feel one of the things that steemit is lacking, in the community sense, is being able to create your own feeds based on tags you like, etc.
I'm used to the reddit experience, where you subscribe to a "subreddit", and you get a "front page" feed of all your subscribed subreddits.
On steemit you can really only go for new, trending, and hot posts that give you those posts across the whole platform, or you can narrow it down to one tag but you have to manually do that on an ad hoc basis.
On reddit i just go to reddit.com and i get a list of posts across all subreditts i've subscribed to, sorted by hot/top, etc.. This pretty much means 90% of my actions on there are restricted to the communities that i've chosen to be a part of - some of them are quite large... This is what steemit needs...
I think it is on the way or, someone will develop it or an app/plugin. There is such a need for a whole range of customisations and the beauty is, anyone can do it (with coding skills). Essentially, anyone can make a front end here.
yeah - it's something that's pretty simple in the grand scheme of things, but it would make a huge difference. I find it quite hard to find new content... If you go for trending you just read whatever the heavy hitters are writing about.....
I tend to check out who people I follow follow. @tarazkp suggested it and it seems to work. I’ve found some interesting people and then latch onto them and engage.
If you go to your picture and dropdown menu the first thing is Feed. That is a feed of only the people you follow. I have found that helpful.
yes but that restricts you to individuals you've chosen to follow.
if you can subscribe to a topic, or a community, then you'll get a feed of posts relating to the topic or community that you're interested in - regardless of who the author is.
this way you'll find other authors that you're interested in.
I agree completely. I would like to be able to send a private message sometimes, too. Hopefully the people who know how to do these things are working on developing them.
Private messages aren't as easy. Being a blockchain, by nature it's all there for all to see. The best that you might get is a solution that uses private keys to encrypt a message.