As a new user, I think solving the lack of accessibility to mainstream users. I am not stupid and have reasonable technical skills (due to my day job), but I have found it tough to join Hive and navigate the platform.
I am coming most recently from Medium, which by comparison is simple to signup for and use, even for dummies.
I appreciate that Medium and Hive are too completely different things in terms of technology and structure. But at the end of the day is the common theme of users.
Hive wants and needs to be able to attract good content creators who are not technically equipped to deal with the current onboarding process.
To achieve this, there needs to be a clear, clean front end that people can find and navigate and easily join up.
Hive.io is perfect, but once you go beyond that and click "Join Now", you hit confusion straight away with eight different registration options.
For someone who has no understanding of blockchain this is totally confusing. The suspicion radar goes up straight away and you start to worry about being scammed if you pick the wrong one. There needs to be much better upfront guidance on what these all mean and why there are eight of them. Remember you are dealing with people who are used to one easier registration process on Facebook, Twitter, Medium, Amazon, etc.
No matter how good, interesting, exciting Hive blockchain is, you will drive a large chunk of people back to centralised platforms straight away because it is just too confusing. The basic truth is, despite all their flaws, people trust centralised bodies. For Hive to be a genuine success, these issues need to be addressed.
On the positive side, once you get onto Hive and PeakD specifically it starts to resemble something much more familiar. And from that point you can get involved as much in the blockchain side of things as much or as little as you want.
If you just want a good platform to get published on, then you can do that. If you want to collect Hives and make money you can do that too. If you want to get involved in the technical world of Blockchain you can do that too.
But you ultimately have to remember that 99% percent of people on Medium/Facebook etc don't care about or understand Discord channels, Forks, witnesses, etc etc.
They just want somewhere to be social. So to get them here and make Hive blow up, it needs to have 2 layers. One that looks and feels like Medium/Facebook, then the rest that the current early adopters can continue to use with all the rest of the "blockchainy" stuff
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