That's a good point edystringz. I wonder how well a text only version of Hive or POB would fly. Something lightweight and without all the pictures.

At first glance, it doesn't make much sense... pictures are what make Hive. But then again, if we look at Reddit and HackerNews, there are no pictures in the comments and they're doing much better.

Of course, one consideration would be the length of posts. Pictures help to break up the wall of text and make it more readable.