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thebighigg in The Pub • 12 days ago

I agree, it needs a lot more traffic. We have seen so many accounts vanish over last year that it's nearly pathetic. Very few people view my posts now, and my engagement in down compared to even six months ago. I know the price of Hive doesn't help, but it's the only factor. There are many roadblocks that slow down anyone new from signing up, unless they have someone guiding them.

Even then once they are in they may post but get no support and from utter frustration leave when their post go completely ignored. It's hard to noticed here on Hive and break into a community. That brings up another issue, many communities themselves are suffering from lack of engagement.

We need to get more people interested in onboarding which is difficult. Once they do retention rates are abysmal, and those who enjoy writing may continue because they enjoy it despite lack of real rewards. Those with the biggest rewards received get them all from autovotes and rarely have any engagement, and they carry away most of the benefits.

At this point I'm not sure how to fix things, even SEO won't bring people into Hive. It's a great chain, but it's underutilized... Hopefully we can find ways to increase interest, but it's going to need be something big. Rally cars aren't going to it.

Thanks for the HSBI, I just wish I had a better answer.

12 days ago in The Pub by thebighigg

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dbooster 12 days ago

The DHF abuses don't help at all. But the problems definitely go beyond that. Signing up is difficult and the complexity of the key system prevents most people from even trying. Then the few that do pass that gauntlet, they have to face no support and a hostile Hive watchers. It's no surprise we get very few new users who stick around more than a week.

Perhaps when we finally get light accounts, potentially making signing up easy enough to actually pass the grandma test. At that point if we can make a push to get Google to index us more, we might actually get new users. But then we have to figure out how to keep them around.

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iodacasamia 11 days ago

Maybe it's possible to rethink or add a "shortcut" for the login mechanism. A simpler, guided method and the hard part is handled in the background leaving the simple part to the new user. Each witness could have this simplified system that they could deploy. The server will handle new logins with a procedure that is more practical from the outside. I don't know about it, I'm just a graphic artist, so I could only say stupid things or methods that are not feasible.

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