This is why I'm not on Discord much at all, I'm doing my engagement on the sites (when I can) but probably miss out on some of the latest as that's where all the "chatter" is.
Just seems funny that a place with a userbase preaching decentralisation uses a centralised service (Discord) to keep the chatter in 😁 it's why I like the way the Leofinance team have done it with an official page with official announcements about developments - how it should be IMO
Like you say, those activity charts would look a lot different if those conversations in Discord servers were on the hive sites. Combining Web3 with web2 is where it's at, too big a jump and it's an alien world and people will look for the x.
Yeah, I don't get it either. When you think about it, unless you're in a workgroup, and you're dealing with immediacies that have zero long term importance and would contribute zilch to a knowledge base, "chatrooms" like Discord are a total waste of time! In my opinion, of course. Look no further than Github to see why I think that, and how it represents the opposite. Why does GitHub exist? To store key information that is valuable and easily accessible. So we have the opposite in Github. Discord is for total crap that has no lasting value (in general), and a place like Github, well, it's a knowledge base, and has immense value, and is certainly worth the time. Why mention those two extremes? Because HIVE is somewhere in between. Imagine the value added in things like HowTo write-ups, and personal profiles for witnesses, and, hey, what about Witness Server setup docs, and things like that? Instead of wasting away the day on Discord? Those are just the most obvious examples, of things that would add lasting value, not just to HIVE, but to everyone's very life! And they just piss their life away instead?
Like I said, I don't get it either.
(Nobody take this personally, please, I've never been on Discord, so I have no idea who you are, and, given such, it would thus be impossible to be directing this at anyone in particular. 😉 )
Honestly, that is probably the most beautifully crafted rant I've ever read haha! But I agree with what you said, pretty much hit every nail on the head there!
With announcements, yes. But, the fun is still happening outside of Hive. The posts on leofinance are not fun (in a true sense :D). They are informative and long reads. The post mortem and promotion of those long posts happen on Discord. People are networking on Discord. Only if we can bring a part of that fund discussion on the platform somehow.
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Well it seems like I miss out on 95% of the fun then haha! If there can be chat functionality similar to what's on Discord integrated to Hive front ends then that would probably be key.
Probably the leomicro will be a big step towards more interaction in the public domain, I don't know. I'm just an end user at the end of the day 😁
Microblogging certainly will change that completely.
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Funny how on Steem and early HIVE everyone was against microblogging.
Just shows you can't stop what people really want.
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