Hi there! Welcome to Hive.

Hive is a very active platform. It just depends on where you look because now, there are different communities that create niche content. Most publish as part of communities now, so that could explain why you can’t find your old friends.

This is also what the community tags are for. If you use a community tag you are publishing your content into that community’s main page. Your post, for example, showed up in leofinance.io even though you are using hive.blog.

I left for a while too and came back with a lot of things different. You might have to look around a bit to get acquainted again. Good luck.