Exciting times are coming!
Steemit's HiveMinds, or Communities, is almost ready to be implemented in the Steem Blockchain. There will be new functions and benefits to the new community features. The specific filters and optimization for community groups sounds exciting. The goal of the community feature is to empower users to create tight groups and focus on what's important for them. It will still be fully open source and will allow for an app developer ecosystem as well. Admin settings and Mod settings sounds really cool as well. I mean, who doesn't like customization. Definitely look into 
Here is the link for the HiveMinds Community post:
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/update-communities-hivemind
Unfortunately, there is no official release date but you can't rush art.
"It is our goal that everyone developing applications powered by Steem will want to take advantage of hive, so that a consistent user experience can be maintained across the growing ecosystem of Steem applications."
Looking forward!
