The blog side of Ecency 4.4.1 got big enough to need its own post. The short version: there are now three answers to the question "where does my blog run". One of them costs nothing and does

Ecency is probably the most comprehensive Hive dApp with a web site, desktop application, a phone app and app for short form posting called waves. Its phone app is the most used mobile app for a general

Version 4.4.1 of the Ecency web app is live on ecency.com. It is a large release, so rather than list every change, here is what actually shows up in your day: a video feed inside Waves, three new ways

New creators often put all their effort into publishing posts and barely think about comments. I think that is backwards. Especially on Hive. When you are starting out, you probably don't have much of

Every comment you leave, every vote you cast, every wave you post turns your username into a link. People click it. What they find in the next three seconds decides whether you gain a follower or a back

Votes and rewards tell you what people were willing to reward. They do not tell you what people actually read. A post can earn well and still be skimmed, or earn little and hold every reader to the last

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

The single most common reason a new Hive account stalls is not bad writing. It is posting into the void: publishing to your own young blog, where nobody is looking yet, and wondering why the silence.

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

You can now stand up a whole Hive community as its own branded site: its own address, its own look, its own domain if you want one, with every post still living on the Hive blockchain. This is a step by

Hivesearcher is staying. That is the headline, because for a while we genuinely debated shutting it down. Instead we rebuilt it to run on a small fraction of the infrastructure it used to need, as part

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

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

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

Most writing advice boils down to one boring truth: show up every day. Ecency's daily quests exist to make that easier. They live at ecency.com/perks on the web and in the Perks dashboard in the mobile

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.

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

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