there was briefly an editor implemented so it's possible that the code is dormant somewhere, awaiting a new lease of life.

If this code was deactivated, there were probably reasons for it.

I was wondering if it's possible to take a visual editor from ecency.com (it's open source if I'm not mistaken) that works successfully and "bolt" it to Steemit?

I'd be interested in following some of the new members if you can point them out to me

Unfortunately, I run campaigns, but I don't know who and how many people register on Steemit. I look for interesting new authors by looking at Achievement 1 in the Newcomers' Community. One author I noticed, you already recommended steemcurator01, is hnubdona. I can also recommend nadinad.

Great effort

Thanks, I'm interested in being involved in the development of something big 🙂