I'm not sure we will be seeing more improvements on steemit.com pretty soon. I think our best bet or hope are the 3rd party developers, see if they can create more projects. ...

I also think that is what the STINC are aiming for which will boost their SMT... the APPICS which will be the new start of SMT and if that will successful more projects will follow suit. So this 3rd party apps will just be created around steemit.com, piggy backing on its structure.