I'm glad we are no longer bleeding numbers, I have been afraid to look the past few weeks. For the longest time, I watched and saw 130k daily active users down to 8 k average on a good day. To me that tells me people know about this place, they just don't like it. 1.04 million accounts, I know some are duplicates and all but obviously more than 100 k people know about hive for sure and don't want to use it, that's a big give away that what we are doing now isn't having the desired outcome, time to try something else no matter what anyone believes this place should be.

Influencers don't use it properly no but that's not the point, they turn around and talk to their million fans how poor their experience here or if we are lucky not a mention instead of trashing. If they had a positive experience here and would still be here, they would be shilling to their million followers how awesome this place is and people would follow them like sheep. I follow people around the internet to see what kind of person they are before liking a celebrity and such, and I just take interest in watching and analyzing social behaviors. I don't comment a lot but I read a lot on the blockchain, what the complaints are so on. I see so many stupid posts about ah this person got banned here or there lets bomb their twitter about hive, I'm like hey dumb asses, they were here and left after a year of no results but I try to be polite and abstain from commenting on said posts. You can see where I see the flaws that everyone seems to have unrealistic vision of what the platform currently is, not what it could be. What it could be sells to investors but not users, without users you don't attract many investors. See the dynamics here?

A common one on price and dev is not attractive to build unless you have lots of time and money to invest yourself to absorb the cost making dev slower and less attractive with limited competition (this place needs competition among users of all ranks writers alike)to those that may not find funding and it takes a lot of hive to fund that, therefore a lot of hive on the market causing selling pressure. Now if we implement a few quick token sinks, it gives use case for the token and it will increase in price having to sell less hive to fund dev projects for more coders and faster app building. Yes we do have some but clearly they couldn't keep the 100 k active users we used to have here (steemit, whatever). For that the platform is young and I understand that but most will want to join a easy finished product. Everyone wants some big dream investor to drop bills so it can go on but reality , that's not very likely to happen. The crypto world know we are here, and those that are not just don't want to be. I come across crypto news that mention hive quickly because of our attachments (negative or positive) to Dan Larimer and Justin Sun (not necessarily why they won't invest). But they know we exist.

The front ends will be a good long term hive sink but in time, for now, the platform still has to survive both in usability and user retention along with price cause right now we spit a bunch of tokens but everyone spits them out on the exchanges. Investment, coding and the social aspects all go hand in hand for the success of this platform but I feel like all the focus is on one or the other but never seems to be on all 3 at once and that's why we are struggling on a downward trend.

Implementing a more mainstream look/ approach and an easy way to directly load funds like those dinky games everyone spends money on like angry birds or candy crush or whatever, people have the money to waste on it, obviously they would spend a couple hundred bucks here too id it gave them perks. For example, if we have ads, then $500 fiat sateked investment to enjoy the platform add free and you can make return on investment while it's in there. Worth it no? How about stake X amount for a slider bar, Stake X amount for more thorough content search and spam filter kind of thing. It's a freemium site after all, yes we all recommend it but if there is a button staring you in the face tempting you and it's easy to do, if your willing to go out to a restaurant and spend $100, you will easily sink a few recoverable bucks for a few perks that can be huge HIVE sinks reducing the amount going on exchanges to be sold.

As far as my friends they would rather start a facebook account 4 times a month for every time they get banned and have free speech. People don't want true free speech, they just want something to virtue signal about right or left. It's all about the fight and never was about the ethics of it, why they don't do well in our self policing environment, because it's not for them. That being said, why we are here, because we don't want to be them or see the garbage. So do we really want this mainstream? Or do we want to cash in in a mainstream way while keeping bandwidth clear of spam and keeping a certain standard by bringing our talent to them like a publishing outfit sort of thing, like a tool of the trade for content creators. Why I think until there is enough variety of front ends that we need to cash in on indirect views from people who will never care about crypto because that's the market that is easy accessible in many ways. Fiat funding for development, marketing and onboarding instead of dumping hive on the market. Give those who have the ability to earn on their own the ability to do so because those that have a million followers to bring here depend on it as an income why they chose to stay where they are already established, it only makes sense. Right now, everyone is at the mercy of whales or curation teams which only represents a small minority of accounts.

The downfall with becoming more popular, most social media users post spammy shit like 2017-18 and that's frowned upon and flagged here so it will never become mainstream if mainstream actions are not allowed, it kinda takes the fun out of social media and entertainment. People don't like to be told what to do as you said and just leave because for a censorship proof platform why is everything getting flagged for this or that? I see how it could make someone not want to spend hours here. In the perfect world view it is censor proof but how people see it is how it will be interpreted and also important in user friendliness. Hive is friendly if you know how to play along.

Don't get me wrong none of this was complaining, I use the platform and have fun here no matter what and I do believe it could have a really really bright future because there is enough of us that care to keep it hopping along no matter what and why it's still alive now because of us hardcores but this place has serious problems and it makes it un-attractive and the faster we admit that and fix it, the faster we move on to better days. We don't have stinc in our way anymore, it's all on us. I have commented my ideas on posts that matter for years but it gets ignore so rather than be spamy about it or sound whiny I just whatever and chuggle along in my little mountain blog. As a potential investor, I have no issues investing m time here, but fiat, not convinced yet, many things would have to come to fruition first. I go with the money I have and diversify accordingly. Hive could be on that list in the future but a lot has to change including abuse and other non favorable behaviors that sprout up and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Also the fact too many cash out their earnings immediately including big names and dump on the exchanges doesn't make this an attractive real world investment. If it were easier to power up directly from fiat, I would have a few k's sank in here already but usability apparently isn't a problem here so whatever since I'm the dumbass that can't learn I'm the problem... how many other potential small potatoes investor feels this way? I'm still happy with what I have accumulated with blogging but if it was easier, I would easily pad up my account with 20k tokens because I like it here but also have no issues trying to work my way there.

Sorry for the book but I do like discussing these types of topics, cheers Mate!