Just as Bitcoin stores transactions on a transparent blockchain, Hive stores posts and comments on a blockchain. One could have private forums within Hive that would be stored on some private backend. In that case it would be a service that leveraged Hive's userbase but nothing else really.
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Yes, I didn't intend to upset the technical basis of blockchain. But only to make sure that the visualization of blogs, of communities passed, using the frontends, through a mandatory registration, even for consultation only.It is clear that if you access the register you can publish everything in a way that everyone can read... But at least it would be an attempt to do natural onboarding. More registered users, more votes, more movement of the blockchain, more value for the users themselves.
On a higher level, requiring logins is how Facebook got its large membership. Even when I didn't want to engage in it, I had to login (and thus sign up). Generally speaking requiring logins might be a good idea if you have something some of the non-Hivers really want.
I can conceive API end points could require a login procedure, which would make getting to the data require either they have a HIVE account or they run a fullnode. This is kind of something that would require the agreement of all of those providing public RPC nodes and such a universal change might be hard to sell. The other way as I mentioned earlier for me is to encrypt things for say the "POB" community, and somehow deliver some shared symmetric key to the participants. That just requires one front end to have a premium mode for certain authors on Hive who might think they could get people paying to see an article either earlier than usual or exclusively when paid a certain amount.
You can perhaps give the possibility to the author of the post, to create an access door only for HIVE subscribers. Unsubscribed visitors will see the post obscured (as with NSFW posts). I find it useless that HIVE wants to grow but at the same time allows posts to be publicly visible even to non-members. If membership is a benefit for users because they can vote and earn tokens, but this doesn't happen because HIVE doesn't grow... It means that the incentive is not enough. So why leave our community's posts visible even to non-subscribers? So let's remove the registration and voting of the witnesses, etc.
I think that HIVE must increase its value and to do so it must change its onboarding method. So far, the current method has not been enough. Blocking visibility to non-subscribers can help.
You make a lot of hand drawing content and you have hundreds of votes in a post. What if you could have your content available three days earlier to subscribers paying a monthly fee? I ran a website like Ecency for months with custom enhancements at a loss and eventually took it down. If I can get several people who are warm to this idea, I might bring it back up for the world.
Bringing business models such as Patreon or Substack into HIVE's blockchain would certainly be another example of its possibilities for engaging more users and creating movement. In HIVE there are many communities dedicated to art, but I don't know if the average user is willing to pay a subscription to see content.
It's more likely that engagement will remain extemporaneous (perhaps the “I pay now for what I want to see now” model, offers more freedom), with no early access privileges. (I don't know...)
Was your app based on HIVE?
Yes, it was Hive and it interacted with Hive-Engine tokens as well. On the Hive-Engine side, the utter lack of documentation (that is documents describing how programs need to interact with it), left me copying and pasting code far too much. Hive itself is far better in this regard.
I think chart analysis (called by many technical analysis), which to me is rather like astrology rather than astronomy, is what people will pay for. I don't do chart analysis. Business analysis (also called technical analysis) is looking at how a business works internally.
The best way to make money for me is to get a full-time job. They people who tell you otherwise are also people who have worked decades at full-time jobs. Hmm...