I've been part of it since the start actually. The platform has its own set of drawbacks (monthly subscription required of $5 to reward creators, no clear upvoting mechanism), but I feel it does have some advantages that Hive has missing at the moment.
Perhaps one could consider setting up a Coil-like streaming payment system for Hive? Not sure if that is possible though (with the Hive ledger working a bit differently than the XRP one).