RE: Important Changes to Steemit.com and Wallet

It seems like they're main focuses have been reducing costs (layoffs, reworking of code, adding things like RockDB and MIRA), and finding something to generate income, and have at least begun with the ads idea.

It's true, Steemit is not STEEM, but I'm in full agreement that it does go against the grain. Whether it's actually fiat money being earned or not (which undoubtedly a good portion must be), it just seems part of the old system of earning that the blockchain and the new attention economy is supposed to get away from.

re: ads not on mobile

Well that's something. On the website, on your personal feed, it will show banner ads at the top, one on the left and a smaller one on the right, and then there are more ads in the feed. If you go to your blog, there will actually be a banner ad on top and others where your blog posts are.

Yea, this is the current mobile experience..

And with desktop mode enabled, you'll see the ads like this..

Ads not being present on mobile is nice. As for the desktop, there are far better options then steemit,... Including desktop applications. Which steemit inc should be promoting, so they can offload some of their server side work to other nodes. Which will enable them to start the cleanup process from AWS and maybe towards a better community hosted ipfs or whatever system. The more steemit promotes steem and it's plethora of dapps, the more it will benefit as a whole the steem ecosystem. Collaborative measures. I mean, they are already running public API nodes, so they are enabling them.. may as well help them run full nodes also.