I really like how you urge people to consider the need first. So often, people think up features for the same of having features, but forget to articulate what problems they are meant to solve (imo, this blockchain is mostly built by engineers finetuning a solution still in search for a problem to solve...)

The first need that I and the people I've helped bring onto Hive recently is t he ability to more easily find and connect with people who share a common interest in the same topics and are thus likely to be a good match. This is useful at any stages of one's user experience, but perhaps especially when someone is new and looking to make new connections and find their first few followers.

Search for people / users

I would therefore like to have a search function dedicated to finding users, not just posts. Peakd allows this somewhat on https://peakd.com/search, but it's not working that well. I would love to be able to select tags or keywords and then get a list of users who frequently write posts and receive upvotes on those topics, or users who frequently curate those topics. Account names could be filtered by tags, sorted by incoming and/or outgoing stake based votes on said tags.