Thanks for your thoughts, your first sentence really jumped out to me…

Obviously, income is the most important thing for all user

I don’t agree with this although…

but income cannot keep users on the platform for a long time.

I do agree with this.

(from a blogger’s perspective, an investor’s perspective will differ.)

Perhaps it’s more common now for users to join purely for rewards. We see this in their behaviour - swarming towards whatever intiative sc01 is curating. But historically, users joined because they wanted to be away from the traditional, over-sensitive mass social media - I.e. freedom. Perhaps their opinion wasn’t mainstream enough or controversial and got them banned. Many users still post despite the rewards. Be it for the social element (there are some great authors who only comment now), or to proomote themselves or their business as part of a wider engagement program. Or simply because they’ve made friends.

It’s these people who are here for reasons other than “obviously rewards” that join and stay. The “rewards users” more often than not, don’t last because they’re almost always disappointed (which this post went some way to demonstrating).

As far as the alternative layout that I’ve implemented on my localhost, do you think that it improves the attractiveness of the platform in the hope of attracting and retaining the more interesting authors that visit?