You are not the only one, I think a lot of little fishes like us are worried 🐠 but if we survive we'll be stronger after that! 

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Since that upgrade that was so disastrous for at least a week, it appears there are less plankton coming onboard.  Without feeding in new folks, the rest slowly drift away.  That leaves the dolphins or higher.  Even they will grow tired and quit in time.  

I think steem is a good idea.  I'm not sold now on how the UI via steemit has been implemented.  It feels too much like livejournal and really ought to be more ... blogger and/or reddit.

Well, we'll see.  Give it another couples months, I'd say.  However, I'm going to backup my articles soon...just in case.

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As you can see, a lot of people have gone to other platforms that are more promising than Steemit.

I see the goldfish. He looks a bit bewildered..much like us Steemians after the announcement from Ned.  I’m carrying on as usual and hope to be a Dolphin  some day...or was that a diamond 😃  🎶

Howdy cosmiccrimes! I know what you mean but I am getting more confident all the time. The layoff was a very good thing in the opinion of most of the people I've talked to about it because they were very top heavy and were over paying people and needed to trim down the workers to save a ton of money. 

They are working on ways to make the blockchain more useful and easier to sell to big companies, they aren't really interested in improving steemit and in fact steemit may not last but that won't stop anything as most people are now using esteem or steempeak and those can keep right on going if they dissolve steemit since they operate on the blockchain.

The only thing that matters is if Steem can survive. I think it probably will.