I'm not going to go through the technical problems again, I have talked enough about how Hive's tech is very poor, a dinosaur in 2020.

there is a fairly large group, (at a guess about 4500)

At first I thought you were being sarcastic. 4,500 is basically negligible in a world of 3,000,000,000 social media users. It's a complete failure. "Large group" would be 4.5 million, not 4.5 thousand.

If you like Hive, good for you, but you must accept that you are in a tiny, tiny minority. The platform won't matter at all until at least 4.5 million people use it. 4,500 is laughable. Reddit has 450 million, that's literally 100,000x Hive.

I do hope Hive goes in a new direction, but after 7 months (an eternity in crypto), the progress has been nowhere near enough for me.