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Once upon a time, there was a community that was very different from what we have here on Hive today. Regarding the size of it, most likely it was the same as this one is today, but the composition was very different and whoever says otherwise is blind or lying.

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This doesn't mean the community has stayed at the same size though. No. We had a lot more users, if you dig deep in dalz's posts, you can find data showing when was the peak regarding active users and you can see the evolution as well, but the sheer numbers don't really matter in my opinion. Substance over form again and this seems to be my motto as it has been coming up countless times lately.

The reason I'm thinking of this matter is because this week we had a really sad event on the chain.

When I have a bit more free time to spend on the chain, what I do is go and explore posts and see where it takes me. That's when I come across old posts and bump into accounts I once used to know and are not active anymore. The problem is, the more I go exploring, the more old accounts I discover and see how many are not posting anymore.

Life is a constant rush. I know there are people who are posting guides about what to do when you're bored and I really feel sorry for them to not know what to do with their life. It's sad but the good thing is, most of us are not like that and we like to make the most of our limited free time. But sometimes we get caught up in the rush, time flies and we loose track of how many people we don't see and who's not posting anymore.

Back on the legacy chain we used to go through our following list from time to time and message those that we've not seen for awhile and hope they message us back. This was kind of coordinated, someone initiated, others followed. Obviously it wasn't mandatory but that's what normal people do in real life too, if you care about the person.

The deeper I dig, the more I see how many of the old users are inactive and am wondering what's happened to them. (We have new users coming in every day, but the content we get is not the same, qualitatively is way worse. This is a subjective opinion but I bet it's not just me feeling this way. Now you can argue that I'm not a judge on the platform, but when it comes to content consuming, I have my own opinion, I have the right to have my own opinion and can decide if it worth allocating my free time on it, or not.)

Then time passes and then we wake up and realize it's too late.

This week we said our final farewell to someone really dear to me. It's not the first time, not the last one either, unfortunately. No matter how old you are, tomorrow is not guaranteed. We had older users battling illnesses, we had young users passing due to accidents, so you never know.

Change is the only constant in life. Change is good and the only way forward, but at this point I don't like the direction we're heading. You can spin it however you want, you can try to make it look better, but can't convince me to approve it.