It actually isn't good news.
It shows that Hive devs are getting poached by external forces and that the Hive development as a whole will be fragmented. Just ask @therealwolf. A talented individual that left his own project to be a SplinterLands employee. Why... ? Structure, sustainability, delivery and stable rewards among some of the reasons I imagine.
No wonder @blocktrades did what he did with HF26. He needs new devs to come in and fill the void.
It will at least be positive for Keychain since they are now part of a high level/high demand networked team that is actually pushing with much gusto in the Web3 development space. Maybe keychain will make their app mobile offerings resemble an app from this decade and not look like a borrowed template from days of myspace.
It's evident that Hive has a very long way to go to exist as more than just a pet project of a select group of reclusive devs that ran off when a money man came in and secured the steem chain for the Koreans.
So steem stayed Korean (kicked out white devils) but now Hive is in a nutshell... LATIN AMERICAN.
Will the coming year be a year of gentrification (an attempt by some devs to kill rewards for blogging) or do coders need to have n their CV: Languages ENG/ESP.
¡Si Señor!
One thing about Latinos.. they move as an organism. The influx of more ESP content is because of that influential and opportunity-sharing behavior.
If Hive stops rewarding ESP content, it will likely lose the entire input from Latinos... and their input is for the most part, the bulk of Hive content (outside of SplinterLands.)
So if devs want a 'new image to market' then they better start actually making the offerings of Hive be attractive to a wider cohort of users.
Them quotes from @keychain show that outside of the HIVE bubble, there's not much really here that is impressive to outsiders.
So "getting more to join" is the curse. Because community thinks that's all it takes, but devs don't want to have it until they've finished their vision... however many years that will take.
First no one's getting poached, we're merely interacting with the rest of the ecosystem. If anything, I've got some other founders to consider building on Hive actually.
Second, you can be caustic if you want, I know lot of things still need to be improved but I'm proud of what we have achieved with limited resources, and we will keep working on making it better.
If we are to achieve mass adoption, we'll need to be able to become a multilingual platform. For blogging in particular, I guess there could be some options to filter posts based on languages, it's a question for frontends.
Some of those quotes do little more than acknowledge our presence, but given Hive current ranking I guess that's a start. I agree that more should be done to appeal to the masses, but I do think that eventually what will bring adoption is not only promoting Hive itself, but having killer dApps in here.