So what do you think? Have the advocates of the EIP been validated so far? Do you think the current user behaviors can be sustained and further improved?

I was absent for 5 months due to limited time and huge frustration with all the bid-bot thing. So i came back 5 days ago without any prior knowledge regarding the new hf. Then i read some post about all that you are referring too and gave it a go.

The good things are that a lot of people turned into manual curation and generally speaking rewarding quality users. That's an undeniable fact. It still needs work to be done but it's a start. If that continues and i have said it multiple times it will be a good marketing via word of mouth either to reach new users or bring back the quality ones that left.

The only bad thing which i can say which isn't as a result of the HF ,it's just cause of the interface, is the difficulty in which you can find quality posts. I always done things manually, curating,commenting,upvoting etc etc. If you just go to the new page and search it will take a long time to actually find a decent post, something that is very time consuming, so many people stick to the known quality authors, something that i don't blame.

There are still many ways to find quality content though like curation trails, communities,searching through certain tags