This was a hell of a read.. some real home truths being told, all the dirty laundry on display, big time!!
I'm a relative newbie in the HIVE ecosystem, only really landed at the tail end of 2025 and have been using my Account as a new user experiment of sorts, focused on Blogging, Actifit, Splinterlands.. purposefully kept queries to a minimum, really wanted to see how easy the ecosystem was to navigate on my own two feet.
Its been a wild ride, coming from a Software Developer background I can really see and mostly understand what the ecosystem is trying to achieve, there are lots of things I like about HIVE but fully agree with some of your assessment.
- New user onboarding is painful, it should be a 30 second operation max, 'vault' the keys overseen by trusted Admins.
- New user intro information is woeful, especially for anyone stumbling in on their own, a friend of mine took me under his wing otherwise even knowing what info is available let alone where to find it is questionable.
- Ecosystem is crying out for a New User Guide App (AI Agent Helper) one place to host everything a newbie needs, maybe an advanced section to highlight various mechanisms within HIVE
- A viable search engine? currently searching for info through old Blog posts etc is horrendous
- Advertising and merchandise, bite the bullet and provide a centralized place to acquire merch at a feesible price, silly things like wristbands, the cheap items.. suggesting people are going to use the branding to make their own if they are nowhere near a meetup is poor..
- In terms of dApp dev, I've seen AI do incredible things in my Industry over the last 12 months, the DHF figures seem a touch inflated, much more can be done with less these days if you have the skill and access to tbe tools
All that being said I wish to end with positivity, I've run into many lovely people in this ecosystem, friendly, helpful, Actifit has actually had a positive impact on my health, and Splinterlands is great fun to play. I'm hoping to create a new Community on here soon and then push to start onboarding friends and wider circle now that I understand the onboarding mechanism requirements :)
The first bullet point is key. A tiny minority of users care about their private keys, matter of fact worse than that, most people store their keys unsecurely, they are better off having a trusted admin handling their keys securely for them. There is no argument, beyond the moral high ground some teams think they have, to not have a centralized key manager (boo, the ghost of centralization 👻)
Yet another user guide reminds me of this XKCD about standards:
https://xkcd.com/927/
Maybe we don't just need a new guide but we also need to NUKE and remove old ones so they don't confuse new people.
The search engine is probably difficult because Hive has awful search operations, it is the reason we can't have an algorithmic feed. The architectural decisions are showing its age.
I've seen AI do incredible things
In general I support AI aided development but we need to thread carefully not to shoot ourselves in the foot with code and feature quality. AI doesn't scale that well over long periods of time, it can start and produce stuff 800% faster but eventually, because of technical debt and feature creep, it drops to 20% and some researches even show it can SLOW DOWN DEVELOPMENT (if used properly caring for quality)
Well said :)
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