acgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 18 hours agoYour Blog, Your Server: Self-Hosted Blogs v1.0.0The blog side of Ecency 4.4.1 got big enough to need its own post. The short version: there are now three answers to the question "where does my blog run". One of them costs nothing and doesacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 3 days agoEcency 4.4.1: Shorts, Post Templates, Dictation and a Faster surfingVersion 4.4.1 of the Ecency web app is live on ecency.com. It is a large release, so rather than list every change, here is what actually shows up in your day: a video feed inside Waves, three new waysacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 5 days agoYour Profile Is a Landing Page: The Ten-Minute Setup ChecklistEvery comment you leave, every vote you cast, every wave you post turns your username into a link. People click it. What they find in the next three seconds decides whether you gain a follower or a backacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 8 days agoPick Three Communities and Actually Show UpThe single most common reason a new Hive account stalls is not bad writing. It is posting into the void: publishing to your own young blog, where nobody is looking yet, and wondering why the silence.acgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 7 days agoReputation on Hive: What That Number Really MeansNext to every username on Ecency sits a small number. Fresh accounts show 25, regulars drift into the 60s and 70s, and a few veterans crack 80. That number is the Hive reputation score, and it may be theacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 10 days agoPolls on Ecency: Ask Your Readers, Count It On-ChainEvery community eventually needs to count hands. Which topic should next week's contest use? Should the community change its posting rules? Team A or Team B? The usual way this…acgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 11 days agoWhat Hive Would Look Like Without Funded Public GoodsIt is easy to support funding public goods in the abstract and still not feel it, because the benefits are invisible when they are working. So let us make the opposite concrete instead. Not a doom scenario,acgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 12 days agoThe Introduce Yourself Post That Actually WorksYour first real post on Hive is almost always an introduction, and it matters more than it looks. It is the post people read before they decide to follow you, the one curators check when your later workacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 14 days agoHow to Log In to Hive with MetaMask: A Guide for Ethereum UsersIf you live in the Ethereum world, you already carry a wallet everywhere: MetaMask. What you probably do not have is a Hive account, because trying a new chain usually means a new seed phrase, a new keyacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 16 days agoGive Your Hive Community Its Own HomeToday you can host a whole Hive community as its own branded site. Not a page inside a shared app, an actual home for the community, on its own address and its own look, with every post still living onacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 15 days agoResource Credits Explained: Why Your New Account Just Hit a LimitYou found your groove, posted an intro, answered a few comments, voted on everything you liked, and then Hive said no. The error mentions something like "please wait to transact," which soundsacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 18 days agoEveryone Benefits, Few Contribute: The Free-Rider Problem on HiveThere is a classic problem in economics, and it is not abstract at all once you see it running underneath Hive. It is called the free-rider problem, and it explains a quiet risk that every decentralizedacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 19 days agoThe Write-Ahead Workflow: Drafts and Scheduled Posts on EcencyThe hour when your writing is good is almost never the hour when your readers are awake. Most blogs die in that gap: the post gets finished at midnight, published at midnight, and buried by breakfast.acgalarza rebloggedmelinda010100 (79)in Town Square • 19 days agoYou are Ecencial! Have you ever received support from Ecency? A vote or Points? A helpful answer to a question? Account recovery? Does your project or community receive Ecency Points? Now Ecency…acgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 21 days agoEcency Pro Is Here: Support Ecency, Unlock the PerksToday we are launching Ecency Pro: one annual membership that helps keep Ecency running and hands you a set of perks in return. Here is the short version. Ecency Pro is $19.99 for a year. You buy it onceacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 20 days ago150 HBD a Day: An Honest Ask to Keep Ecency RunningWe have reduced the Ecency proposal again, from 200 HBD per day to 150 HBD per day. That is roughly $4,500 a month for everything Ecency runs and maintains, and it is about 55% less than the amount weacgalarza rebloggedjza (67)in #tech • 24 days agoCyberdecks are taking over... are you readyThe Cyberdeck movement is growing and I look back into the predecessors of the Modding and projects that are being taking over the web in recent years.acgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 22 days agoA Change to Delegation Points Rewards and What Comes Next for PointsPoints are the reward layer that sits on top of Ecency. You earn them for showing up and taking part, and you spend them on things that push your work further. For that loop to keep working, what goesacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 23 days agoHow to Find Anything on HiveHive holds more than a decade of posts, and most of it is invisible to you until you go looking. Google indexes a slice. Your feed shows what the people you follow are doing today. Everything else, theacgalarza rebloggedecency (78)in Town Square • 24 days agoHive Power Explained: What Staking Actually Gets YouOpen your Hive wallet and two balances look almost identical: HIVE and Hive Power. Same token, different state, and the difference decides most of what your account can actually do. This post explains
