Thank you for sharing your experience, this seems like quite valuable information!
I wonder how you started with the hive.blog interface which seems like the poorest interface we have. Did anything in particular bring you to that interface?
In regards to the Hive beginners guide you mentioned, would something like these FAQs do the job in your view?
When you Google for Hive you get a lot of results like Apache Hive, A productivity platform and a smart home product.
One of the first hits to this Hive Social Plaform was hive.blog.
I've seen these FAQ's indeed (from PEAKD) and they are really useful!
It was in a Discord channel where they advised me to switch to PEAKD.
I think PEAKD is indeed a much better interface but it's not really easy to find for a beginner.
Thanks, good to know.
@jarvie @asgarth Would it make sense to make the PeakD FAQs more easily findable by putting them in the user dropdown menu maybe?
I read some of your recent comments. In one of them you suggest a community for newbies. I think that's a really good idea and that such a community could really help new users.
https://peakd.com/hive-173737/@borislavzlatanov/re-bos-giok-qgps4n
Oh wonderful, that's really good to know. I'd be up for creating such a community. But would you have any suggestions as to how newbies could learn about it?
Here's another example of someone who is looking for help: https://peakd.com/new/@wesbic/0b68b67280fc1
Shall we set up this newbie community together?
Sure! I think there can be multiple admins but only one owner. Are you interested in ownership of the community? I myself don't care either way. I can create the community, I don't think it'll cost anything as I have resource credits.
I also found out that there is already a Hive Beginners Tips Community which has a FAQ and a lot of useful links.
So maybe we shouldn't reinvent the wheel.
I've also found the following guide which can be very useful for newbies.
Ultimate Guide: What is Hive And How Does It Work?
https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@sidwrites/what-exactly-is-hive
And last but not least I read about a new initiative for beginners yesterday:
Hive Guide
https://peakd.com/hiveguide/@bigtom13/hive-guide
The only question is how to get the newbies to these information.
I think a good way is to create a community and fill it with info and links to useful articles first.
After this has been set up this community must become know under community admins and 'veterans' so they can refer newbies to the newbie community.
This way the info is not limited to the 'entry' that is being used.