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RE: the first million is always the hardest - good advice is to grab it, which a lot of the whales are doing and this helps STEEM long term
"Considering the rapid growth in userbase..."
Actually, there has been a 33% contraction in (posts + replies + edits/day) in the last 3 weeks 27,000/day to 18,000/day. This probably the best metric. Users active last 24 hours is flat and bounces around between 5,000 to 7,000 users/day (also a good metric).
https://steemle.com/charts.php?charts=posts
https://steemd.com/distribution
This is happening while a lot of money is being given away. So by now it should be obvious Steemit is not Reddit and must focus on becoming the crypto version of Seeking Alpha. Then you expand into the broad financial markets and challenge Seeking Alpha. It can be done, but is there any roadmap?
a lot of bots traffic before that is reduced
weekend usage is lower
7 day average seems the most relevant and I look at the minnows/dolphins level as the newbies are many, but most dont become active contributors.
also qualitatively, we now get a lot of recognized authors posting regularly, which appears in the stats as +1, but has disproportionate effect