Yes I agree this discussion is valuable now. The chain needs more of this activity. Passion (you) vs Logic (me).. lol.. seriously though I have respect for you and what you do actually. The Ladies of Hive is a great endeavor and has extending value both in crypto worlds and in the regular world.
As for my SUMO POST it's epic because it exists as a seed. There's literally ZERO content on sumo here other than my post so in time it will grow. Or not! I need that SPK network to eventuate though. In time maybe I'll contribute to the growth of Japan's official sport on this chain. Because even the Japan community is lacking content here.
For the record I'm not Japanese. I love Sumo primarily for it's tradition and heritage. It's Shinto characteristics and the discipline and lifelong commitment of it's athletes.
Anyway I'm good for RC I got delegated already but what you've delegates to me is priceless. You've sparked in me the compassion and humanitarian elements that I was previously lacking. Thank you! I imagine you now as a great mother to your children. Well done!
You seem to believe yourself to be logical while you are the opposite if you were logical you would have already considered the points below.
Medium is a web 2.0 blogging site, which can easily track your data to suggest you content, and give automatically generated links to you and they are not constrained by blockchain standards. Even if there were a suggestion function on one of HIVE's interfaces, it would not be able to track if you saw a post or not and would keep suggesting to you the same posts or if they could find a way to track you and which posts you saw, it would be a costly operation to the interface without a benefit to the interface.
Searching for old content on HIVE is not the same as searching for old content on the Web 2.0 website. It is a taxing operation on the nodes and requires you to develop your own code to do that or use a paid service. Which a normal HIVE blogger would not bother to do, just to add some links to their content.
Still, there are users who link to their old content on their recent posts, if you so wish to read them, so your point just becomes moot, as blogger just needs to include what medium automatically does to their posts manually.
HIVE does not need to feed you with reading content like web 2.0 websites, being fed continuous content does not make a system superior. Web 2.0 websites have to show you more content because that is what their revenue systems need, if you are not shown more content then there is no revenue for them.
HIVE does not have revenue and does not need revenue hence it does not need to show more content to you. It does not need you to consume content for the sake of consumption unlike Web 2.0.
In Web 2.0 consumer is the product, not the content, here the content is the product, not the consumer.
PeakD, hive.blog, and leofinance etc. are all interfaces for the same blockchain, and you are free to develop your own interface with the features you want, there is nothing stopping you. That is why WEB 3.0 is superior to WEB 2.0.
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.