My opinion would be to make the the sorting by timestap as default. Old to new or new to old.
Another one that people can do is help other newer members in reminding them or informing them about said future from time to time, have it promoted. Honestly another How to hive, how to leo how whatever on this platform is found to be a very useful tactic into bringing new users. I haven't seen much of that since the beginning of steemit when I first joined. I shouldn't have been careless and trashed the account thinking that this platform was just another bogus dead end.
still is, on the capitalistic side of it, but as a free speech platform? business is booming baby.