Steemit.com finally has a business model!

Disclaimer: Whoever finds sarcasm in this post will get an upvote for their comments.

Great - so Steemit Inc. have finally split steemit.com into two sites which improves security a lot because users now need to know exactly which key they need to log in with and don't get confused with steemit.com and steemitwallet.com and redirects, so it's a 100% improvement compared to the old solution (2 sites is 100% better than one site).

Having a closer look at this it gets even better. Users are now supposed to use a new website with a new URL to trust with their private keys / passwords, so they will probably get the password out of their password manager or their browser just to paste it in and save it there. It's super safe to not have a "real" wallet (at least a browser extension like...let me think...Steem Keychain) but instead keep everything on a website which can't be hacked and isn't centralized. This will tremendously help educating users as to what keys are, how they are different from a typical password and how they can keep them safe.

In addition, the redirect when accessing the wallet makes it all much faster to load.

If this is not enough of an improvement for you - we also got an extremely improved UI on steemit.com. We finally got an update section on the sidebar and a coin market overview:

Things we've always waited for! And if it still weren't enough, there's another new thing:

steemit.com is full with ad banners.

Wow, now that's new. In a decentralized web (let's call it the Web 3.0), where there are no intermediaries and some people may come up with the amazing idea of monetizing content without having to clutter everything with ads, the company effectively running the show comes up with the old-school idea of actually showing...ads. :thinking_face:

To be honest I think that's actually not bad at all. It brings the people who are used to ads back to where they are, into the Web 2.0, and may start taking them from there towards the new world slowly. Or maybe Steemit Inc. will finally start making money. In any case, it's important that there are business models related to Steem / built on top of it that aren't taking away their share of the reward pool (whether by voting, delegating or beneficiaries), because the reward pool is for: rewards. Rewards to people who create or discover great content. So maybe it's a good way forward that Steemit.com may have a sustainable business model in the future.

Not that I care much. If not for the rants in the community, I wouldn't even have noticed. @steempeak has been my go-to web UI and @partiko my mobile app and I've been getting along with that combo very well. Why are people still onboarding and staying on Steemit?

In any case - good luck, @steemit!