I know that new user/creators need to get exposure and get votes, so I do a lot of channel/community surfing.
Have you found that having communities has made your process easier?
There really are a lot of uses for Hive.
Maybe there are too many uses for some people - they don't know where to turn their attention - so they dart their eyes all over the place.
There is over lap among all of them, that is what makes Hive unique for me.
I like this overlap - it is a personality thing when people have their "career" but give more of themselves.
Yes for me communities has made it easier to find new content/people. I don't visit the ocd or gems community very much, but lately as my interest are shifting for winter I spend a little time over at the StemGeeks community, come spring it will be the garden communities. They provide a much cleaner set of post than searching via tags ever did for me.
Too many uses for some could be a problem I guess, but I kind of like having this huge library of resources available, I may never use much of it, and we need a Dewey decimal system in place that works to find things, but sometimes the hunt is fun.