I started working on a proof of concept of an idea I think a lot of Hive folks will like, but after talking it over with 
(Apparently, there have been attempts in the past at doing this, but I am stubborn enough to give it another try even if I just learn something out of it).
I've been thinking a lot about how many communities move off Hive over to Discord to chat and organize. Why are we not using Hive?
Also, the number of people who feel excluded because they don't have the time or energy to write and create videos, but they have news and interesting links that they share on Twitter, Discord, Telegram, etc.
My idea is to create community forums using the Hive infrastructure.
This will mean
- You don't need to be a blogger to participate and get rewards from Hive.
- We have somewhere to post news, videos you like, gifs and memes, whatever you like, without annoying people by cluttering up the blog feeds.
- Nothing needs to change about Hive, just the additional front-end I am building, though I can see LOTS of community opportunities growing around this.
Think of it as our Reddit clone, but on the blockchain ... Hive-It, or something :)
Unlike Reddit, we won't have centralization, heck anyone with access to my Github repo will be able to fork their own version entirely.
Proof of Concept
Currently, I just have a quick demo of this where you can create new threads or click on an existing reply and reply to it.
The way it works is "top-level threads" are behind-the-scenes just replies to a hidden post, and all the subsequent replies to that thread are regular Hive replies.
A similar approach could be used to create a Twitter clone but due to the way our blockchain works, it wouldn't be exactly a fast response time. For a forum it is absolutely fine.
Work to be done
There is lots of work that would be needed, not least right now the comments are not threaded or sorted, they are as returned from the API.
Ideally, you would be able to vote, tip, etc, and also embed images/gifs/links etc with a preview before posting.
All of that is doable, I just didn't want to get too far into it only to be told it was a stupid idea!
What do you think?
Please share your thoughts in the comments even if your thought is it won't work!