This is certainly good for developers, but from the average end-user perspective, will this be more useful, more informative, or simply better in any aspect than Hiveblocks?
Of course I am talking about only the block explorer itself. Applications built on HAF probably will be better, because it is designed for high-performance Hive-based applications.
Hiveblocks is a bit legacy. The developer isn't really involved with hive any more and it generates no revenue so I'd be concerned about it going away. I have no specific information on this however.
It's also closed source so app developers can't extend it.
more search queries possible... things like that
So it is somewhat more detailed, and it will be easier to look for blockchain transactions in general. Good to know. Thank you.