Thanks for the nice words, @wadepeterson. Steemit is starting to gain momentum, from my perspective. When I joined, in October, the total number of active users over 24 hours was around 1.500. Now it's over 4.000. This is a very important metric and the fact that it went up so fast is a positive. Once we get over 10.000, improvements will start to be more and more visible.

There are still a few things that are thwarting the process, some of the internal to Steemit, some of them external. The most important internal problem is flagging, that's a big turnoff, but I think HF17 will alleviate much of it. And the most important external problem is that big players in social media are stealth banning Steemit. Facebook is very keen on this, links to Steemit are basically hidden, I ran a few tests lately and it's like they don't exist.

Of course, there are workarounds. For instance, you can post the picture of the Steemit article and a short excerpt and then, after a few minutes, add the actual link. I verified it and it works, the posts gets "normal" exposure. But it's cumbersome to do this all the time and I don't want to feel that I have to cheat when I post something about Steemit on Facebook.