@kus-knee, there are so many amazing stories here-- so many of them are "humanitarian," or human interest stories.
People are helped, and lives changed. Like the ones you mentioned... and many more: The community raising funds to help those who are not financially able make it to Steemfest. Our own @fisteganos having his life changed completely, as a result of Steemit.
And also the community rallying to make sure "wrongdoings" don't happen... like that documented big-time Internet scammer trying to set up shop here, and pretty much getting "erased" within 48 hours.
Much of this is newsworthy. I don't know if spreading such stories are the domain of @andrarchy and @zurvanic, or the community as a whole.
It looks like Steemit is growing very rapidly right now. It will be very intersting to see what the next hard fork brings especially in term of communities.
I would like to see a news/updates button where we can easily locate any changes and especially how they work. I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around the new voting power that I have. I feel like a custodian in the sense that I want to support certain authors as well as encourage worthy new users.
By the way, have you tried this nifty new tool: www.Steem.supply. ? A newbie pointed that one out to me. It will help you to see how commenting is becoming an ever more powerful earning vehicle. That will certainly benefit a great commenter like you!
I haven't really studied the details of HF.20 yet; I also still don't understand exactly how "communities" are going to be implemented.
After a "short week" I have decided I like the new voting power balance. It offers a wider scale of rewards... I can give something truly outstanding a 100% upvote and otherwise dial it back to around 20-25%, which would be pretty equivalent to voting, pre-HF.19-- at least as I understand it. What I do find is that I have to seriously ration myself on upvoting comments, or my voting power drops right off in no time. And since I like to manually read, comment and curate a lot of content I have to be super careful... my voting power is just now coming back into the 80% ish area after a couple of days of using it very sparingly.
Yes, steem.supply is a pretty cool app, especially now that Dragos has it working properly.