The main problem is instead of making this easy to use to follow coins like reddit you must follow users like twitter, another failing site. The morons in charge of steem spent a year trying to become a token launch platform instead of becoming crypto reddit. It was really a wasted 1.5 years. Steem should be to crypto what Reddit is, it’s just too hard to focus on topics here. I have quite use it but keep checking periodically to see if it’s gotten better.
Well, there's nothing stopping Steem from becoming like the subreddit for crypto. It would definitely do a much better job at it. Just cause the Steemit team isn't focusing on the front-end doesn't mean they wouldn't hope for someone else to come in and create something of the likes, they'd probably support it with a delegation as well, who knows.
I guess their plans are much bigger for now. Also Reddit isn't the main platform where the CEO's and team leaders of crypto projects use, that's Medium nowadays which is probably a lot more alike to Steem. Why Medium is doing so much better is beyond me considering they're just a middleman on centralized servers that could sell out or shut down any day.
Well the content is already there, it’s actually the tools to make it easy to use. I think the devs are to blame. Both medium and reddit allow you to follow topics. In medium you usually only follow devs, because barriers to writing are so high so it’s easier to make a stream you want. Follow the devs of maker or zrx or similiar and you’ll get a stream of stories that are relevant.
Perhaps all that’s needed for steam is multiple groups of followers. Let me follow devs on one tab and commenters on another. I think just organizing them into groups (communities) would help a lot. Also in medium you get suggestions about things you like. This is much easier to discover good content than on steemit.