Awesome! Congratulations to you and also to Ned for making this decision.

Besides the operational / technical part, are you also considering to improve the onboarding scenario in general? I'm thinkin about tools like tutorials in order to educate new users before they join the community and start to participate in this eco-system?

Especially during the past months there has been a huge gap of information among new users, and I'd really like to point out the importance of education right from the start. Obviously, if you want to bring the masses, you can't do personal trainings. But it would be huge to have some professional videos available for newbies for instance. Now that we have applications like DTube built on the Steem blockchain we might take advantage of these services. There are uncountable and semi-professional videos from steemit users available, but it's hard to find them if you're new to the platform and don't know where to look.

A well informed new user = a happy user = a loyal user :-)

Again, congrats and go for them!