This is how Steemit looks today. Steemit will change it's look and feel soon!

The "endless scroll" of posts is already happening.  That's about to change.

I give credit to @condra for inspiring what you are about to read, from this one: https://steemit.com/steemit/@condra/steemit-has-evolved-but-now-it-needs-to-be-refined-with-groups

Without even interviewing the steem developers, I can feel and see the writing on the wall of how they launched steemit beta:

1. Create the foundation for a blockchain that can support a system like steemit
2. Have the right business model
3. Release it into Alpha, then Beta, see if it goes viral
4. Lock down security early.  Wait for the hackers and DDoS'ers to come (they always do)
5. Allow the system to scale, bear the load, become stable and security tight.
6. Build more features.
7. Go back to stage 5, and then stage 6 again, rinse and repeat.

We are in stage 5 right now. We're going to be entering stage 6 within the next 6 months.

Once the system starts scaling and is stable, and security tight, that's when they will build more features.

This probably has been the "catch" until now.  What features do you build, until you see the need for them?

Of course you can try to build features in advance... but why do that, until you see the trend and apparent need?

Look at Facebook for instance.  Facebook has evolved and grown, and swayed, with what makes sense over many years...   You have to grow and twist your platform's functionality with user demand.

The worst thing you can do, is pre-plan what the user demand will be, and funnel people into your vision of the system.  Let the users decide what feature is needed next, and if the consensus by the community is that a certain feature needs to be made sooner than later..   You have an instant blueprint on what the next new feature needs to be.

I don't believe steemit developers wanted to force us to learn a complex system that was a vision of "what they wanted".  They wanted us to be part of that vision too...  It makes sense to first create a solid community of users, who then will grow with steemit together.   

Good ideas always float to the top.  Every day someone posts a new idea that makes sense.

This is the best way to grow a system like steem, and we need to have more faith in the developers.  They will get there.  They read our posts even if they don't comment or upvote them.. They see our wants and needs.  It's all in the cards.

The features we need, are already being talked about, planned for, and maybe even alpha tested behind the scenes, it must be that way..  It's a bright future!

P.S. one of my next posts is to talk about upvotes and curation rewards. People think if they upvote a post that already has a lot of upvotes they don't earn anything. That is not true.  Coming soon...