Love the new branding and what you've done with the platform.
One area of focus I would love to see if possible and your team is up for it would be better onboarding. It's honestly what's killing and holding back hive right now. Out of those 20,000 new accounts how many are active? I'm going to guess it's a rather low number from the hive stats that get posted where active accounts are rather low compared to created.
It would need to have groundwork with an easy to use UI that walks them through the steps but is also short you don't want too many steps. Easy onboarding is one of the primary things Hive seriously needs. After that we can start digging into building more apps that use Hive.
And how many will be active later?
Probably "very little" is the answer to the first question, and "even less" is the answer to the second question.
It would be interesting to see the exact numbers.
I can only tell what I experienced over the years.
I registered on the Steem blockchain on 2017.05.17.
I achieved more than 1000 followers, but most of them left the platform long months/years ago because of their disappointment in the platform (very low, almost non-existent amount of interaction on posts in general).
I also left a few times during the previous almost 4 years, but I always came back so far.
I still have some hope in the platform, but I am very disappointed in it, like most of the people.
Or rather not in the platform, but in the behavior of the people.
Almost everyone focus on their own posts, and almost no one cares about others, which results in a lot of ignored posts (I am not talking about my Hive posts, but Hive posts generally on the Hive blockchain from most of the people).
Hopefully HF25 will increase the interaction.
I give some more time (maybe a few more years) to this place.
There's a lot of good people on this chain as well that are encouraging engagement and dividing out rewards to those who are engaging with posts. We need more of that especially from those with massive stakes but I feel like some of them want to keep it and hold on to it instead of taking the time to do that. Which is fine but divide it up at least a little from time to time. This platform and it's people that make up the community need to continue to better and I believe we will get there.
Recently I also became one of them to show a good example.
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Thank you, agree about onboarding! Our devs have done quite good job of simplifying signup process with just email you can get started in matter of seconds. And we have some plans on guiding new people and have educational linking for parts that may look confusing. It is iterative process and takes time of course, but we will get there.