We can have the best of both worlds, posting (and cross-posting) announcements and milestones in steemit as well as the forum, but have the 30-page-long threads over at the forum instead.
Little help topics for instance, I think the forum is also a much better match for that .. or at the very least use #bitshares-help or something to keep track ..
But see, once again .. then what else do we have? #bitshares-newbies ? #bitshares-lostfunds ?
A gazillion others?
So much easier to sort these over at the forum, in my opinion at least!
I completely agree, Steemit is kind of an ADD platform with a content lifespan of 12 hrs or less. I'm not a tech guy at all, but is it not possible to build a forum on top of Steemit? As far as I understand steemit.com is just an interface and it can be made to look like anything, dev's chose to do a reddit/social media thing cause it would allow the greatest variety of content out of the gate. But I don't see any reason a forum couldn't be built on steemit. Hopefully it's on the roadmap...