Next to every username on Ecency sits a small number. Fresh accounts show 25, regulars drift into the 60s and 70s, and a few veterans crack 80. That number is the Hive reputation score, and it may be the

Every community eventually needs to count hands. Which topic should next week's contest use? Should the community change its posting rules? Team A or Team B? The usual way this happens is a comment thread

It is easy to support funding public goods in the abstract and still not feel it, because the benefits are invisible when they are working. So let us make the opposite concrete instead. Not a doom scenario,

Your first real post on Hive is almost always an introduction, and it matters more than it looks. It is the post people read before they decide to follow you, the one curators check when your later work

If you live in the Ethereum world, you already carry a wallet everywhere: MetaMask. What you probably do not have is a Hive account, because trying a new chain usually means a new seed phrase, a new key

Today you can host a whole Hive community as its own branded site. Not a page inside a shared app, an actual home for the community, on its own address and its own look, with every post still living on

You found your groove, posted an intro, answered a few comments, voted on everything you liked, and then Hive said no. The error mentions something like "please wait to transact," which sounds

There is a classic problem in economics, and it is not abstract at all once you see it running underneath Hive. It is called the free-rider problem, and it explains a quiet risk that every decentralized

The hour when your writing is good is almost never the hour when your readers are awake. Most blogs die in that gap: the post gets finished at midnight, published at midnight, and buried by breakfast.

Have you ever received support from Ecency? A vote or Points? A helpful answer to a question? Account recovery? Does your project or community receive Ecency Points? Now Ecency needs your support in return.

Today we are launching Ecency Pro: one annual membership that helps keep Ecency running and hands you a set of perks in return. Here is the short version. Ecency Pro is $19.99 for a year. You buy it once

We have reduced the Ecency proposal again, from 200 HBD per day to 150 HBD per day. That is roughly $4,500 a month for everything Ecency runs and maintains, and it is about 55% less than the amount we

The Cyberdeck movement is growing and I look back into the predecessors of the Modding and projects that are being taking over the web in recent years.

Points are the reward layer that sits on top of Ecency. You earn them for showing up and taking part, and you spend them on things that push your work further. For that loop to keep working, what goes

Hive holds more than a decade of posts, and most of it is invisible to you until you go looking. Google indexes a slice. Your feed shows what the people you follow are doing today. Everything else, the

Open your Hive wallet and two balances look almost identical: HIVE and Hive Power. Same token, different state, and the difference decides most of what your account can actually do. This post explains

Good posts do not distribute themselves, but most of what actually gets them read is free. So before this guide says a word about spending Points, it is going to make you collect the reach you are already

You open an app, your feed loads, you post and it costs you nothing. That smoothness is the point, and it is also a kind of illusion. Everything you touched, the front-end, the data behind it, the network

Streaks end for the wrong reasons. Not because someone stopped caring, but because of a long-haul flight, a fever, a dead phone in the wrong timezone. One missed day, and a habit that took months or years

A normal feed is built for reading. One column, newest first, scroll until you are done. That is the right shape for a lazy evening and the wrong shape for anyone who watches Hive rather than just reads