The "actively having to check what their up to" is definitely a big issue for the platform, or at least it is for me. I can barely manage to text back within 24hrs consistently, let alone check everyone I likes page manually to see if they possibly did something worth talking about. Also having all the big channels on Discord, I can honestly say that thing can almost gives me a heart attack sometimes lol. Can't believe the amount of networking people here do.
Just wanna add I'm not trying to shit on Steem.it or Steem or anything really, I think it could be a truly industry disruptive technology (in all the good ways) and I enjoy my time here, just pointing out areas I think might be an issue re:mainstream adoption.
100%! these issues are being talked about a lot, but there doesn't seem to be updates (other than the look of the interface)... i do hope they do something about it... its a negative criticism that they whole heatedly earned.