I'm not going to go through the technical problems again, I have talked enough about how Hive's tech is very poor, a dinosaur in 2020.
there is a fairly large group, (at a guess about 4500)
At first I thought you were being sarcastic. 4,500 is basically negligible in a world of 3,000,000,000 social media users. It's a complete failure. "Large group" would be 4.5 million, not 4.5 thousand.
If you like Hive, good for you, but you must accept that you are in a tiny, tiny minority. The platform won't matter at all until at least 4.5 million people use it. 4,500 is laughable. Reddit has 450 million, that's literally 100,000x Hive.
I do hope Hive goes in a new direction, but after 7 months (an eternity in crypto), the progress has been nowhere near enough for me.
I realize it is a small start and we have not reached a tipping point on Hive for growth yet. Reddit/twitter/facebook did not start out overnight with 4.5 million user, it has taken them years to get where they are.
I do understand and see that crypto people see it as nothing more than a get rich quick scheme, that is why so many end up giving their keys and passwords away for phishing expeditions. So 7 months is an eternity for them, the longer it takes the get rich scheme to work the more chance of it being detected. One of the reason every day normal people have a hard time accepting crypto as an investment or a currency.
There are not that many places that developers can go and get real world users to test and play with and suggest product changes enhancement for little to no cost, especially if that developer is new or unknown.
I do hope Hive can break fully away from and leave the memory of steem in the past, that people in one year from now will be singing a different story, but we just have to wait and see. It could all fall apart, but I'll wait, play, and watch what happens.
i understand the tired of explaining thing, still it was all a good read, people should keep their eyes open for opportunity.