You are so right, @dan-wilson. We are definitely in a new time of STEEM. I have not stopped through it all, and see changes each day. Just keep posting and interacting :)
One thing is that I no longer use steemit to post with or use it at all. We now have a lot of other dApps that pay with upvotes to your posts if you use them. I get much better results with this method. You can see esteemapp voted this post since I used their dApp for it.