Good to know that steemit is using Steemitblog to communicating with the uses.
I have used Steemit for around 3 months. Honestly speaking, it sill have a lot of room for improvement. Time is running short especially when Dapps on EOS may be very competitive soon.
From user points of view, the following need to be improved：
3s or 6 s time lag/limit for making vote, comment is quite discouraging. Understand that it is a mechanism for preventing attack, error message pumping out is really a bad user experience.
Witnesses are not active in making the communication better. At least, communication need to be improved. More useful dapps or advice are needed.
9% inflation rate may be too high. It will create high downward pressure on price of steem.