I wonder if creating some kind of sponsorship program for new people that show promise, would help retain them longer? By sponsorship i mean that the new user gets to pist on his sponsors feed, but a portion of the author reward goes to the sponsor in exchange for the access to their followers.
I think one of the major issues is just how overwhelming the raw feed can be, and it's not all that easy to filter it. At most you can search by the tags, but since the 5 tag limit, many ppl use only the popular tags, so that's not very accurate. But not sure if i see that changing anytime soon.
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We actually have a team of honour members who plays this role. When we notice a new user, we are trying to send him/her to our discord and put him/her in contact with the honour members who could guide him/her. It works well when this is used, but users are not that demanding for such a service.
For the filtering, we are mainly using our own app. I have ideas on how to develop a full curation platform on it, but mostly no time to implement that because it is a subsequent piece of development, and I do that during my free times. I hope this will help us discovering new users :)
Finally, we also hope our activities on Facebook, Reddit and cie will help. The future is bright, IMO, but we move slowly due to the fact that the most active of us are overwhelmed. I guess this is the fate of any Steem project, somehow :)
Discord works, but i feel like if you have issues getting ppl to just sign up on steem, it doubles the chance to loose them if they also have to sign up for another thing. I know that's just where things are at right now, but i hope one day all the apps link together, and have messages built in. Then they don't have to jump through so many hoops to get fully on board.
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I also ave the development of a "sign-up made easy" page on the app, and also allowing people to comment without having an account (like steempress does). This yields the same problem as before: my time is very (very very very) limited, I am not a JS dev (I learned it because I needed to, to develop the app) and I am thus not super fast.
However, I prefer doing things slowly and right than hastily and wrongly.
PS: also, finding a dev working for free (or the beauty of the project) is not an option (we already tried that).
Yeah at least in the context of STEM subjects, steemstem.io has all the filters in place, just click the subject you want at the top. The issue is getting people on there without habitually getting involved in Steemit.com which is still the go-to starter place.
Well i might have to try it out, as i'm mostly using steemit, and Partiko.
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For daily use I'd just transfer your energy to steempeak, far more intuitive and beautiful interface. For Stem, use ours since you get extra strong votes just by using it =)