This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.
I think we do have a lot of niche communities, but these often have just a few active users. To attract new users you need to have an active community.
I've put quite some effort in my cycling community, but it hasn't become as active as I had hoped.
Even though I had OCD Community incubation support which resulted in higher upvotes and I promoted the posts on web2 Social Media.
Agree on the chicken egg problem. Honestly, I was never a fan of communities. Not that I don’t like them, but the active users on HIVE was never that big. Plus many that started out on HIVE used the communities with more eyes and curators. And still is today. We have communities now, so we somehow have to deal with that fact. Perhaps combining cycling with other content to appeal to none cyclers as well? Some in our community do this.
The problem isn't enough cyclists. There are a lot of Strava2Hive posts that show there are enough cyclists. But just a few of them are bloggers. They just automatically upload their rides.
Combining the community with other content could be an option, but I doubt if it will really help. Communities need a few frequent bloggers to make it active and attract more users.
I was thinking of creating cyclist post for other communities. Like nature, worldmappin and such, by adding relevant content for those communities. I know, this moves away from the cyclist community, but my take is that when a community is hardly used it may not be of interest to actively use it.
Ah, I misunderstood. I would rather stick to the niche communities for the main subject of the post. Doing this gives the communities some more visibility and more members. But we just have too few active Hivers to get real interaction and interaction isn't really encouraged either.
If you look at photography. There are a lot photography communities that are very active. That is, with photographers that create blogs.
But even in the photography lovers community with 25621 members and 1500 weekly interactions, most of the blogs receive no comments at all.
And those that do are from people with a big Hive stake.
But I don't think we can do a lot about it.
Perhaps we can bit this required a change to the chain. Create comment reward pool and a changeanle parameter to set post and comment reward ratio. We could try no vote power for post, all vote rewards for comment votes only.
I've created the topcomment initiative to reward and encourage people to comment more.
I can't tell if it helps, but it is something.
That is a GREAT initiative indeed! Didnt know you created it. Superrrr
Perhaps we can bit this required a change to the chain. Create comment reward pool and a changeanle parameter to set post and comment reward ratio. We could try no vote power for post, all vote rewards for comment votes only.