Dear @focusnow

Thank you for using our project as an example. Indeed interesting read and solid introduction to STEEM communities (hives).

There are obviously few problems I see with current beta communities and I wonder if some of those issues will be solved. I also wonder what other users are feeling about communities. I hope you don't mind that I will promote your post little bit.

So far I see few small issues with communities.
a) all authors can post within your community and you cannot 'whitelist' those that are allowed - so it may be very easy to 'destroy' any community by bombarding it with tons of spam.
The only thing that one need to do is to create tons of new accounts and use them to post some spam and rubbish. Every day using some new account.

b) even more important: users need to chose only one community in which they can post their publication.
it simply means, that established communities will be doing fine but new ones will have it very hard to attract users to post within their community

c) current HIVE tags look awful. I understand that Hive ID need to be remembered on blockchain, but in tags - instead of HIVE ID we could see "HIVE NAME" - it would look much neater.
Seeing that you posted in HIVE-175254 doesn't tell me anything.

I wonder what's other users experience so far.

ps. You've mentioned SMTs. Any idea when STINC want to release them to public? Also did you hear anything about new version of steem-engine? Apparently it's already available in beta version.

Resteemed and upvoted already :)
Yours, Piotr