I saw this post and the title and I decided to check it out. The idea is always that that are no users on Hive, or that Hive cannot retain Users, I don't think all these are true. Good market condition is the best retentive measures second to great apps as well.
95% of the entire market is currently in chaos. Vitalik is selling ethereum, top chains like Berachain and Monad are currently bleeding even after raising hundreds of millions.
People chase after money and there's nothing wrong with it, people just want to stay where there's constantly money and more money to be made, while this is a bit similar with Hive, there's still a major difference in the fact that a huge part of the population is emotionally attached to Hive and wants it to do better.
This is the difference between Hive and other chains or places. There are over 125 comments on this post and 90% of these comments does not agree with the proposal idea on this post.
This is because people wants better improvement for the chain; more intentional marketing, better direction of the DHF and not more CLAUDE or AI integration or anything like that. However I don't know why the owner of the proposal hasn't seen through all these. I think 98% of people can agree that we really don't need all that.
I don't think Hive issues are rocket science, even people with less technical skills can see it. We're just two or three forks away from hitting it, and I don't really know why we can't.
Marketing is not really much of a technical thing, perhaps it's different to have wizardry and blockchain skills and marketing skills. I don't really have to say much, I just think everyone actually knows we can be better, and the best source of marketing is better price and the only way to do this is to take care of what we can and let the market handle the rest.
At the moment, we can fix a lot on our end and let the market do the rest. However the reason why this post has 125 comments shows that Hive doesn't lack users, or lack the tech. We have all the tech possible and everything, we just have one thing to do, fix the economy of the token and reinstate trust into the layer of the user base.
In reality, in a democratized setting, we should be listening to the regular complaints or concerns of the regular users, enacting some of these changes in a DPOS setting. These things looks or sound complex but they're actually very easy to sort out and again, we're seeing the disadvantage of DPOS. This isn't inherently a problem of Hive. It's just the way it is.
Hive does not need more technical ship, it needs more strategic attention and this has to do with tokenomics and how the DHF works. I hope the 20 witnesses can actually take this into consideration and start shipping the forks we need.
