Things were completely different back then.
I only started using Kraken shortly before I stopped regularly posting. And it allowed directly sending Hive then. I used Bittrex before that mostly.
I did totally forget about how to buy and sell tokens though. That's more annoying of anything. Especially because it wasted so much time because I couldn't find proper documentation or a guide.
But with the use of the pegged tokens it opens up a lot more exchanges for deposits and withdrawals.
Hell, I could technically trade directly on here via pegged tokens. But I read liquidity isn't great.