Progress seems slow, but I believe we are about to hit an inflection point with HAF being almost complete, layer 2 smart contracts being rolled out in the near future, and the SPK network coming online soon. I am excited about the SPK network’s ceramic accounts. I think that will help with onboarding.
We haven’t been ready for mass adoption in my opinion, so a full out PR push to get people to join just seemed like a waste of time and resources. But we are closer to that moment. Having time to develop out of the spotlight I think will ultimately be seen as a blessing when we look back on it later.
There is major development happening (I remember recently reading that the @blocktrades team is pretty large now, I just can’t remember how many), but that development doesn’t necessarily show on a day to day basis from a blogging perspective. The work that is being put in should make it easier for non-blockchain developers to come here in the future, something that would be massive because that could really open the floodgates to massive growth and innovation on Hive, especially when we get out of the bear market.
I want things to happen faster too, but decentralized development with no VC funds just takes more time. Our budget is small compared to what others have but our vision for true web3 means that the progress we make is real and not fake web 2.5 progress that, while able to generate hype by those who don’t know any better, doesn’t lead us to where we want to be. I would rather take small steps to our final destination than large steps that lead us in circles.
Thanks for your submission. I agree that a lot is been done work to improve hive's infrastructure. There is no denying that because I have seen and read about those changes. How these changes are communicated isn't effective. There are people on this change who don't even know who Blocktrades is, this goes to buttress my point about Hive's PR.
Also as much as we want to build slowly, we should not forget that there is competition out there. Decentralized social media is the new meta and many blockchains are jumping on it. We need to occur in this space because we provide the most value to end users. We have the best product in the market currently but we are not doing well enough to promote it. I understand we are building, but we can do that with thousands of active users, we have the incentives to keep them active and testing, providing the much-needed feedback we need to improve. Two truths can co-exist.
I will support an initiative geared towards promoting Hive. I am active member if the community and I support projects on and off chain. So I am not on some smear campaign against Hive.
About the leofinance proposal. Yes, we can talk about what Hive can or cannot afford to fund. I do not think leofinance is asking for too much esp when I compare their proposal to some of the already funded projects.