Oh, and for what it's worth, probably switch to SteemPeak.com now before you get too used to Steemit. It's a new and much better front end, you see and do all the same things, but it has nice things like notifications.
I'm trying to switch but my old brain is really used to doing things here and resisting.
Thank you @tcpolymath for the SteamPeak recommendation.
Thanks for the heads up, I just bookmarked it to browse it a little later. Is SteemPeak created by the dev team for Steem, or is it just another service?
The dev team for Steem mostly builds the Steem blockchain. They also run Steemit but the blockchain is their focus. Every action you take here - posting, commenting, voting, managing SP - is a blockchain action. Steemit the website is just a way to display them.
There are other people who have built other ways to display the same blockchain, and SteemPeak is one of those. (So are busy.io, d.tube, and a bunch of others.) They're basically all skins for the same system.
Ah that makes more sense, thanks for the information, I appreciate it! I'll look into the various other skins you've mentioned and what their added benefits may be. :D