Points are the reward layer that sits on top of Ecency. You earn them for showing up and taking part, and you spend them on things that push your work further. For that loop to keep working, what goes

Hive holds more than a decade of posts, and most of it is invisible to you until you go looking. Google indexes a slice. Your feed shows what the people you follow are doing today. Everything else, the

Open your Hive wallet and two balances look almost identical: HIVE and Hive Power. Same token, different state, and the difference decides most of what your account can actually do. This post explains

The Ecency Community changed it's name. If you didn't see the announcement in Waves and in Ecency chat, only the name has changed to help make clear that this is a community for everyone, not just for

Good posts do not distribute themselves, but most of what actually gets them read is free. So before this guide says a word about spending Points, it is going to make you collect the reach you are already

Streaks end for the wrong reasons. Not because someone stopped caring, but because of a long-haul flight, a fever, a dead phone in the wrong timezone. One missed day, and a habit that took months or years

You open an app, your feed loads, you post and it costs you nothing. That smoothness is the point, and it is also a kind of illusion. Everything you touched, the front-end, the data behind it, the network

A normal feed is built for reading. One column, newest first, scroll until you are done. That is the right shape for a lazy evening and the wrong shape for anyone who watches Hive rather than just reads

Today we are launching Ecency Blogs: your own hosted blog, on your own subdomain, powered by the content you already own on Hive. Here is the short version. For $2 a month you get a clean personal blog

Most people who leave Hive do not leave because it failed them. They leave because week one did not look like the screenshots, and nobody told them that was normal. So here is the first month, honestly,

The best growth advice on Hive has nothing to do with growth hacks. It is this: find the rooms where people already care about your topic, and become a regular there. Those rooms are called communities,

Every few months another wave of people walks away from X or Threads, tired of the algorithm, the ads, or the owner of the week. And most of them land somewhere that is just as rented as the place they

Let's answer the question people have but rarely ask out loud: where does the money come from? Because "you earn crypto for posting" sounds either magical or suspicious until someone explains

Hive has no password reset button. No "forgot my login" email, no support agent who can restore your access, no company that can hand your account back. Read that twice, because it is the least

You do not have to delete your Medium account tomorrow. Or your Substack, or your WordPress site. The worst migration advice in the world is "burn the boats," because your old platform holds

A few weeks ago we published an honest note about our finances. We said the proposal was not funded, revenue did not cover costs, and rather than let the service quietly rot, we would make deliberate decisions

Points are the part of Ecency most people discover by accident. You post for a week, notice a balance quietly ticking up, and only later realize there is a whole economy attached to it. This guide covers

One morning the login stops working. The appeal form routes to nobody. Ten years of posts, the audience that took a decade to build, the archive other people still link to, all of it sits behind a door

Ask a working writer what they need from a platform and the answer is rarely exotic. Somewhere to keep half-finished ideas. A way to publish on a schedule without being awake for it. A place to save things

Take any post on Ecency and add .md to the end of its URL. What comes back is the post as clean markdown: the writing, the structure, the author, and nothing else. No cookie banners, no login walls, no