More users, it's the most important thing we need right now. It is the root of almost every problem we have.
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More users, it's the most important thing we need right now. It is the root of almost every problem we have.
More users are no good when they can't get an account instantly if they're legit.
Onboarding is a big problem right now. We have no centralized entity like Steemit Inc giving out accounts. Nor do we have a clear signup process or a funnel to send new users to learn about Hive and want to sign up.
It definitely needs to be worked on.
I'd love to see @pharesim's Hive Invite toolset worked into front ends like PeakD and Hive.blog, so that more average users feel comfortable creating accounts.
We should turn our weakness into a strength and actually market Hive as requiring you to be referred/invited by another user. Centralized sites at launch often use that as a hook to build buzz and a sense of exclusivity while controlling their onboarding.
I think I saw @howo mention working on making account creation tokens transferable? This could be a big help as current users ask around for spares to onboard a friend or two.
I'm not working on it right now but it's on my todo list.
Is there any kind of way we can transfer our acct creation tokens or maybe claim them to a shared acct for onboarding in the future? I have been claiming them, but I think expecting individual users to make accounts for all people wanting an account would likely be a very slow and unproductive process.
There are talks of this, but nothing has been decided. There are good and bad reasons to keep things the way they are.
We definitely don't need another situation with that one asshole claiming thousands of accounts to make circle-jerk farms or flag trains... Hopefully we can get it sorted out.
They can create 10,000 accounts with claim tokens but without HP and RCs they are useless. One comment every 5 days isn't much of a farm.
Perhaps allowing folks to supply acct creations to the front ends would enable nominal abuse resistance? At least we know @jarvie and @asgarth aren't @noganoo.
This has been and is being discussed. There are issues with allowing the tokens to be transferable but there are also obvious benefits.
There is a lot of talk about building better ways to onboard right now as we no longer have the Steemit Faucet to provide this feature.
I am immediately struck that we do have the RC's and tokens for that faucet, just through the HPS rather than Stinc. Chin-rubbingly interesting...
One of the problems the community has faced is retention. It takes time to build a network that generates even the small rewards my account is blessed by. All too often grifters and various scum - I don't need to tell you - undertake every trick in the book to siphon rewards into their accounts.
I've in the past recommended a formal newb support committee that provides a time and capital limited curation of accounts, as well as enabling a wider audience to see their content, selected for reasons during the necessary time to build a network, say six weeks or so.
While that doesn't address actually onboarding new users, I note that retaining those that have done so is vastly more economically important than gaining new ones. It's even far more important socially than economically IMHO.
Both onboarding and retention need to be worked on. Retention is largely the community but also education.
We're working very hard on that. :D