Even though the liquidity issue is still around (rendering BitShares essentially useless for most people), progress is being made and solutions are being discussed. As insiders/investors/users we know this.
From the outside though, other than the Beyond Bitcoin (which I follow every week), which again mostly only insiders will know about, things don't look so good, apparently.
The YouTube channel is dead, last videos were months ago and plenty of outdated information.
Many of the infographics one can find online appear to contain a lot of outdated info (still mentioning BitUSD yield, for instance)
There does not appear to be any meaningful twitter activity.
There is no IRC channel.
Documentation online is scattered, incomplete, and sometimes contains typos.
With STEALTH coming and with BTC/ETH/DOGE/LTC/USD/EUR/CNY bridges already operational, even if not perfect as they rely on a 3rd party UIA right now, it seems to me that there is a very real and immediate use case for BitShares in the crypto community, which of course is preserving value (in a private way with STEALTH) when wanting to divest away from crypto speculation.
Services are already being built for the platform and likely will continue to be, until then if we can capture this part of the market, crypto users storing their loot on bitshares, that'll distinguish us from every other crypto project out there - as far as I'm aware, there is no better solution, right now or in sight, to store wealth using crypto.
It seems like a clear opportunity, BitShares is by far the best match for it. I don't think the rest of the crypto-world, for the most part, realizes that.
When STEALTH comes, we MUST have liquidity, we MUST have good documentation, we MUST have YouTube (and text) tutorials explaining how to store a stable value of wealth in the platform.
I believe in the short/medium term this is the #1 use for the platform. Do you agree? How can we organize things to entice thousands of new users to join and store their wealth on the network in the very near future?