IF some menial links are the price for some entity to not track me, so be it. I don't need some algorithm to suggest me links, I am a big boy I can find content to read on my own.
You can create your own feed by following content creators, better yet you can follow tags. Not being familiar with the features of the interface or the platform is not an excuse to call it inferior.
Consuming content and traffic does not equal growth on Hive. That is your fundamental error. A user who does not anything but reads on Hive is essentially adding no value to the platform.
ATTENTION RETENTION is not an important measure on Web 3.0. IF an account is not transacting then it adds nothing of value to the platform. Even if they are spending their whole time reading here if they do not transact it does not matter.
I repeat, ATTENTION RETENTION does not matter, if the user does not transact on the blockchain. WEB TRAFFIC does not matter if it does not end up in a transaction on the blockchain.
Those measures are important for a web 2.0 site, but not a web 3.0 system. YOU are thinking with a web 2.0 mindset, on a web 3.0 platform. THAT is your problem.
ATTENTION RETENTION and TRAFFIC are important measures to Advertisers on WEB 2.0. They are the revenue stream of a website, that is the reason why they are important on Web 2.0.
There are no advertisers on HIVE, so those measures are unimportant. And you have trouble understanding basic if statements it seems like. IF a user only reads and does not transact they do not matter, what matters if they read and transact. SEE there is a whole fucking difference there. THAT is the important measure, that is how you measure if the platform is growing.
A user not transacting means; they do not vote, they do not comment, they do not engage in any way with the blockchain, they just read. When you are voting it is a transaction, when you comment it is a transaction, when you post it is a transaction.
Tell me, if a person opens up peakd every day, reads tons of posts every day but never opens a wallet, do they add value to the platform?
ATTENTION RETENTION means time spent on the site, stop trying to change its meaning to whatever you like it to be.
USER RETENTION and ATTENTION RETENTION are two different things, you do not even know the correct terminology, and it is clear you have not seen the stats as Hive is growing. The number of posts and comments are increasing, the number of votes is increasing and the number of new accounts created is increasing.
You say it is shrinking but the stats say otherwise.