Thanks @ronni! One of the things I remind myself of-- each time I start to get impatient with the "problems," is that little word "beta" under the Steemit logo at upper left. This community is really NOT in wide release yet, a lot of kinks and bugs still being worked out, a lot of features still to be added.

My friend did OK for himself... but ended up one of the people who was "ethically invested" in Ethereum Classic, which didn't turn out so well as most of the support went behind the fork that is Ethereum today.