RE: Steem improvement proposal : Canonical links.
I never actually considered that this might be a problem, but now that you mention it, it's obviously an issue, and if it was to be fixed, I'm all for your proposed solution!
So although I agree with your solution, and I see the problem, I keep wondering if it will have negative side effects if it's solved.
One downside to actually solving this problem is that it might decrease Steemit's ranking, since it's basically competing with itself? I guess it's just a priority of what we want: A lot of decently ranked Steem-based sites or one really high ranking Steemit?
I also think it's important that people understand that all of these sites are connected in a collaborative ecosystem, and in that case I believe Steemit serves as a great portal to all those other apps. After all, posts written in other apps usually has a link to those apps, which I guess helps for their ranking?
In the end, I think Steemit will rank high enough anyways, so I'm all for implementing solution.
Yeah your remark is a good one, steemit basically allow lots of content to be found and it has been a great portal to the steem ecosystem, but now I believe it's slowing it down and it's time for steemit to let go and allow all of the apps to strive.
Like you mention, steemit.com ranking would get reset. But it's better to do this now than later when there are millions of people using it right? What do you think would be the immediate affect if the ranking dropped it, other than people writing about how steemit.com is shrinking in popularity?
There's nothing wrong with steemit losing some (or a lot) of its ranking over time. Steemit Inc's main purpose in life isn't to dominate the steemverse with steemit.com; it's to make the steemverse HUGE, diverse, and awesome.
Ned (the CEO) has said (approximately) this more than a few times times "If there are so many good products out there that people don't go to steemit.com, that's a measure of our success".