I think the solutions for this are in Communities, but what we have is just a good start. The design needs more work to function properly.

First I think it should be easy to set up an account to be auto beneficiaried for posts in a Community. This financially incentivizes people to creating active, vibrant communities. Creating and managing a Community is a lot of work for no real benefit except a macro systemic benefit. People like me will do it, but a better system would reward the behavior it wants repeated by many.

Also I think there need to be sub-communities. Like within my OnChainArt community there could be sub communities for fine art, anime/manga, graphic design, animation, 3D art, etc. It could just be an additional “suggested” tag that’s used for further filtering, but I think it would make discovery a lot better.

Then, there should be Community types. This was all in the works, but not sure what’s going to happen now since the one working on it left Steemit. There were supposed to be Communities that were open for all to post and comment(what we have now). Communities where a set of white listed people can post and everyone can comment, and a Community where only specific people can post and comment. The latter two would be good for things like Hive development news or learning material. This would make it easy to find this sort of content and it would all remain quickly and easily accessible.

In short, it all just needs more work. Considering Hive was just listed on Huobi and another exchange, I think the current focus is on foundational stuff. I’m hoping once we get settled, development will be faster to improve the feature set of applications. We ARE in a better position than we were before, but we still have a long way to go. Glad you’re still here sticking it out through all the muck.

We’re going to get there.