Hive's main front-ends are peakd.com and hive.blog. Hive.blog is basically a copy of steemit.com. I think that it is okey for now but in the long run, hive will face the same issues steemit had.
First of all, scaling. Yeah yeah I know hive is great and it has huge tps but it can't support massive number of users due to resource credit issues
Hence, a front-end that doesn't require accounts can be an attractive alternative to the current front-ends.
I want hive tokens to go up in value and hive community to expand. However, this is not possible at this point due to the fundamental flaws of the steem inherited token model.
You can't issue tokens infinitely to reward creators. The money has to come from sources that provide a sustainable model. In order to achieve that hive could build a frond-end which is more user friendly and which has its own economic model.
What do you think? Would you support a idea to develop a new frontend that is minimalist and geared towards user friendlyness?
What do you mean? Free accounts with 0 value votes and commenting with no rewards?
I mean accounts that aren't in the blockchain. When a new user posts, the front end dapp will use their own account to post the content. This will solve the hurdle of on-boarding. Then slowly, the user can be incentivized to learn about hive.
So much like https://anonramblings.com/ does. They post all comments from their own account (for anonymity). A frontend could allow commenting using their own account but store json_metadata for identification of the user.
This would be a good idea for onboarding new users. The could have an account in the frontend site using their email address and a password. The site would be able to post to Hive on their behalf and take any rewards. If the user wants to start earning rewards the site could offer a HIVE account at a discounted rate by using an account claim token from resource credits or HIVE they have earned on their comments.
Exactly. That's what I was thinking.
Isn't peakd pretty user friendly?
No, I don't think so at all. There is too many things that will confuse the average end user. And you need a hive account which is the biggest hurdle. Learning hive is time consuming. The average user isn't going to stick around.