milansteskai... You'll find your spot. It's taken me a month to work out that the hot and trending categories aren't my place = and nor are they yours unless bitcoin suddenly crashes, in which case a mental health expert should be able to make a killing and redistribute some of the whales wealth at the same time... It's more luck than judgement if you catch one that interests you as it flies past in the new section... but if you go to the far right menu and try explore, then you can go to the topic of your choice. Read and comment there and you get responses because they are like-minded people who will have a genuine interest in what you say. Plus when you enter a sub-community it's smaller and you get chance to get to know the names, Beyond that I do quickly visit, upvote and comment on genuine introductions, because like you I can remember how important it was to get response at that point. I could have done with your advice the day I discovered that bottymcbotface and Ionlysaymeep were bots... As for the number of views... Forever is long time. If you are writing something that isn't time sensitive then its likely to be accessed far more in the future than during its first week here. It's the folk doing crypto and steemit posts who have to think in terms of the immediate future. Some of their stuff is out of date before they upload it! Best of luck!