Exactly..I was the founder of a community that was almost 75% newbies because we sought out and helped them, one at a time.
Before HF20, our retention rate was 75%? As compared to steemits of 9%... So we were doing something very right.
After HF20? The place slowly became a ghost town. It is slowly helping one Steemian at a time again, but I wonder if it will ever see those amazing retention rates again...
I'm a bit disillusioned with these changes "for the community" that only help the few.
Sickened really. But...I don't think anyone is listening to us 🙃
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75% is an amazing effort on retention, well done for that. Sorry you got hard fucked as well by HF20.
I'd say the place quickly became a ghost town after that as noone could post or saw the awful quality content on trending and thought "eff that, I'm leaving". Don't blame them. I'd do the same if my motivations were just about earning money but I wanted to improve my writing skills by joining this (initial) blogging platform and meet like minded people that I couldn't find on fb or Twitter so I'll be sticking around... But only if the communities do.
It seems like there are enough dapps around to keep me on here like travelfeed, dsound, powerhousecreatives, actifit.
The minute you get in the cross hairs of those that do listen, brace yourself for flags as that's what happened to me when I started being vocal about bid bots.
Decentralisation hey... Doesn't work with people. End of. You need a set of guidelines for the community to follow. Anarchy is not a good way to progress as we have seen on multiple occasions.
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75% retention is freaking amazing!!!! We were so proud!!!
And our community was EVERYWHERE because a huge principle for us was.. support, comment, enjoy!!!
It wasnt about the money .. until they made it about the money.
But look!!! Now we have a scalable chain!!!! Woo hoooo ....we just have to wait for the people to come rushing in now.
Still waiting...
Oops.
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