It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come with such primitive tools. I felt the same when I first came across steem around nine months ago. Though there were many tools created by the community they were not easily accessible to the new entrants on Steem blockchain. People generally join the platform thinking it is like any other social media/blogging platforms. But when they see that there is a learning curve that they were not aware of earlier, many people hang their boots. So it is important to make sure that these tools reach the hands of the right people who are in need of them.

From my experience in running a welcome bot @steemladder I have realised that just directing the people to the Steem Blue Paper has helped them a lot and they are better aware of the platform, difference between Steem/Steemit and how to navigate the platform. Once the dev tools get better we will have more people from community addressing these issues and onboarding of new users should become much smoother. All the best.

On a side note we are currently working on a platform that will enable running publications like Medium currently does. People can start a publication by creating a separate account for the publication. Then users can create posts as a part of that publication(the posts will be published by publication steem account) and the rewards will be shared with authors based on the pre-defined agreement. Do you think it is better to go ahead with the development or is it better to wait for the hive to be released. Also would love if you can give some suggestions so that it will be easier for us switch from the current endpoints to hive based API endpoints. If we have some insights we can prepared :P