The problem is, there's nothing in the UI to encourage people to engage in idle chitchat like for example Twitter. I'm happy to reply to your comment thread like on this post but I don't feel comfortable creating a post for example and saying "Hey @steevc how's the piles?" To give you another example, I would love to message @stav and say "Where have you been for the last few days?" but again the only way to do that on Hive is to create a post and hope Stav looks at "Mentions" which again is pretty naff as that should be a "Notification"

This is what I mean when I say "Stop telling people to create a separate community on Discord and improve the UI on @PeakD or @Hive.blog so people can send a simple message to each other or the community at large."