Then we should focus on developing tools to retain our users. Look for good usecases where Hive Tech can be used outside of our bubble. Not wait on companies and other projects to find us, but to find different projects or companies and find out if Hive Tech can benefit them in some way so we can approach them with a proposal.
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No EVM or smart contract compatibility is probably the single biggest barrier to Hive being adopted and has been for years now.
Ethereum has Solidity. Solana has Rust-based programs. Both have massive ecosystems of tooling, tutorials, and developer infrastructure around their smart contract platforms.
Hive doesn't have general-purpose smart contracts at all.
Everything is built around custom operations and layer 2 solutions like Hive Engine, which is useful but nowhere close to the flexibility or composability that smart contracts offer. A developer who knows Solidity has zero transferable skills to Hive. That's a massive friction point.
That's not to say that we have to ditch the current custom JSON operation approach, but layer 2 solutions are a bandaid, not a true solution to the smart contract difference compared to other blockchains.
I also think our wallet and tooling UX is dated. Metamask, Phantom, Backpack. These wallets are polished, well-known, and integrate with thousands of apps. Hive Keychain works and stoodkev did solid work, but it doesn't have the same level of polish or recognition. The account creation process alone, with keys and resource credits and account names, is confusing for people coming from other chains where you just install a wallet and go.
And one of the bigger things is we have noo mindshare in the broader crypto developer community.
Solana and Ethereum have hackathons, grant programs with serious money behind them, accelerators, VC ecosystems feeding into them, and cultural presence on crypto Twitter. Hive has a loyal community, but outside of that community, most crypto developers have either never heard of it or think of it as "that old Steem fork for blogging." That perception problem is real and it compounds everything else.
We could easily fund these efforts. Heck, if I knew there was the opportunity to me to be able to work on these efforts and get funded for them, I would do it in a heartbeat. I build fun tools and dApps for Hive, but large and ambitious things we actually need require time and for many of us, we're working other jobs so that time needs to be funded. Right now where do devs go to even get funding for these things, a proposal that won't be seen?
💯 Agree. HIVE shall seek and find the market, not they other way around. No tech ever became successful by simply creating more tech.
Yeah it's not really about marketing and just pissing away money on ads or whatever initiatives we've tried and failed at before. But as you said at least developing for outside of our sphere a bit more.
We've had decent features added to the front-ends here and there, but again mostly just for anyone that's already here. Nothing that solves much for anyone beyond.
we have here users that want to enforce their worldview on Others.
No Memes, No Fun, No new communities build because of that.
Is not about rewards, is about allow others to build with their own views without a hirachy enforces over them
Think about some Computer Hardware people come to hive, upvote each other ( cyclejerk but value each other), more people join and then retarded Old hive users start bully them off.
Never happened? Check last Bullruns, the stakeholders on Hive are pretty retarded to make the holdings more valuable.
Secure pennies in "abuse" and fuck off real users.
We can only pray for another 50% drop. Only this will allow drastic changes.
Hivewatchers for example wants you to post a source of your meme? WTF, Hive has his own retarded rules.
Attention from Humans can never be reward abuse. If people think this is the case, we should ride it to Zero.