Another factor that I think may be a key towards user retention and consumers... is inviting and building your communities on Hive as a default...

I have two users who post zero, who are friends of mine and are interested in the Warhammer 40,000 hobby. They basically log on and read my reviews and other 40k content and leave comments. I am upvoting those comments strongly, because it is the only way that they will grow. But they have!

They are @nicolaasmuller and @owen-turner. They just started being active a little while ago, but they are ticking over. I am trying to get them to diversify what they read but my point was that I am making a home for my Warhammer crowd!