I am not clutching at straws, you are making up your own terminology and then try to explain it as if everyone else uses it like that.
ATTENTION RETENTION: How much time a user spends on a site before closing it.
USER RETENTION: How likely a user to return to the site.
USER CONVERSION: How likely a user will create an account
A retained user still does have an attention retention rate.
So you are moving the goal post from Hive not growing to Hive not retaining enough users from western countries.
Arguing with you is just like arguing with a 5-year-old, you move your goalposts every time. You assign your own meanings to suit your needs and to look like you are right. You changed your point from medium.com and its attention retention to the system fails if it can't convert traffic/page views effectively.
Anyway, I am done arguing with you, because there is nothing to be gained from arguing with someone who does not know how to argue.
Do you even have a life ? @xiko