Now we need to focus on keeping the users that we have.
In order to achieve that, I suggest a larger portion of delegation goes toward curation of undervalued material. Curie and OCD have been two of the best ways of keeping users around but we need way more of that, and not only for new users but for ALL undervalued content. I've always had this idea that steem could have a "Council of Minnow Curators" , maybe 5-7 minnows who are chosen by the community for their excellent curation and engagement despite having relatively low SP, and then Steemitinc. could delegate to them directly or to some body who oversee the project who then delegate to the individual curators in order to increase the rewards that they can provide to posts that they curate. Each of them could make a weekly write-up which is upvoted by the managing body, and eventually each curator could turn their work into its own curation initiative if it could build some support from the user base to maintain it once it's delegation had ended. These users could rotate every month. You'd just need a few established users to lead the project by watching over them and making sure they don't abuse their power so steemit.inc can be hands off.
Enough of steemits SP has been delegated to Apps and I get it, but more of it needs to reach content creators NOT randomly because they chose to use an app which received a lot of delegation, otherwise you won't be able to keep the community together and the turnover rate will continue to be abysmal.
I have not pushed for this kind of initiative because I want to focus my energy on my own content, so I would not be able to put all my time into it but if anyone is interested in building up this concept and we could manage such delegation, I would be open to discussing how to implement it.
It would essentially be something very similar to @tribesteemup which has been such a blessing to all of it's members, except that the curators, beneficiaries and managers would be rotating and most importantly the delegation would have to come directly from steemit inc. in order to send the message "We value content creators".
This would definitely be a good time for Steemit Inc. to show that they care about engagement and retention by delegating to some curation initiatives. I would suggest the @c-squared metacuration project particularly, as a way to spread value through multiple curation initiatives which could then distribute them to users.