I listened to the Town Hall recording too yesterday. Many great ideas, but as you noticed, the retention is the issue. I was guided to write my intro post, but if I wasn’t, I would have no idea that this is the etiquette that needs to be followed, let alone which tag to use, how those tags work or which community.
I think once new user joins Hive there should be something like a step by step tutorial there that you need to tick off before you’re able to post. Like when you first start playing a new game and the first few quests are to teach you how the basics of the game works. I have no idea of how this would work from a technical side of things, but if a few big brains sit together I’m sure they can make it work.
Finding any info on Hive is rather tricky for me. There are many tutorials around, but you kinda need to know who to ask and when you first join you know nobody, so you stumble around blindly hoping you’re not breaking any unwritten rules.
Some messaging system would indeed be very useful, although I find the transaction memo’s rather easy to find using Ecency as my main front end.
Many great tips here! I hope the developers of the frontends you contacted will take them into consideration 💙
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Thanks for the answer. I just googled when I didn't know something, sometimes I found posts and sometimes I didn't. By absolute chance I found a post with links to other tutorials, there was a lot of these things on the old chain, and I'm not sure how easy or hard it is now.
I absolutely agree with this step by step tutorial idea, and this would be possible to implement on the level of frontends, somehow it didn't happen yet. It should be absolute priority IMO, each day means dozens of people not staying here.
At this point one needs to be REALLY motivated to stay on Hive. It should be obvious. Basics.
Cheers!