Why do people use search engines? Usually to find answers for their questions. Where will they visit when looking for those answers? The sites that best match their search inquiry, probably on the first page, but certainly within the first 5.

I mention this because many communities want users to write about or in a way that's not already available online. Because of this we get a lot of people's personal photo albums, but very little useful information explaining what we are seeing in those travel or gardening pics.

Youtube is an invaluable resource because of the Tutorials and this makes them king. We need that here and we did have that for a little while, but those people sharing their useful DIY content have long left. Why? Because their efforts weren't appreciated.

We need the everyday useful information that people search for being published here, because that's what people are looking for. It's free advertising and on top of that we need users to learn basic SEO Formatting for their blogs. This will bring people here over the long term and the earnings with the fact we don't expect perfection will help to retain more of them.

We need to be an information hub and we need to compete with those Web2 travel, plant identification, survival/bushcraft teacher, user review of every single topic imaginable and whatever else is popular if we want to make it. If we keep trying to compete with Facebook we will lose, but compete with YT and the average blogger and we can make some headway.

By the way, @leofinance's goal with working towards evergreening content can do all those things I mention above and if we do better teaching people how use SEO in their blogs, like we do for teaching Markdown Formatting, then we'll get the ball rolling.

Oh, and we need to improve the 'Search' feature big time, because they all pretty much suck.

Anyway, just my opinion.