RE: Modernise steemit.com Interface (DAO Proposal)
Personally I'm skeptical of the "modern look" design (I think most of the time the content in any given feed won't support a "magazine style" layout), and it's not clear to me that a revamped frontend will actually be super beneficial (Hive has some alternative frontends and they're not exactly setting the world on fire with success relative to Steem), but a lot of people keep clamoring for something like this so at the very least it is worth someone doing an experiment.
Structurally I think with the way DAO voting works you'll have a hard time getting this approved (with the current distribution of Steem it seems like big stakeholders need to pick winners and losers, unless they decide to engage in some workarounds for the DAO voting design flaws).
Your ideas around the DAO are interesting... it does seem strange that DAO votes are linked to Witness votes, rather than following the traditional voting mechanism. As you suggest, if a big account liked numerous proposals but wanted to display a preference towards one, they wouldn't be able to.
From my point of view, it's a relatively cheap and low risk project which sends a positive message to the "world".
If, as a community, we show our combined strength and get this above the return proposal (without Steemit's support), the "message" would be more meaningful than what's being changed.
I will bear context in mind when planning changes. What works for a community feed probably wouldn't in another context.
Thank you for supporting the proposal, I appreciate it 👍