Everyone has their own story to tell and here is mine, the same I sent to Miguel while we were chatting about what happened between Skatehive/Skatehype last night.
My opinion about what happened
In my opinion it was failed communication that ruined the partnership but also couldn't keep working like that cause we were NOT working together. There was absolutely no benefit for Skatehive since people didn't know they were posting on Skatehive, there was no mention to skatehive exept a couple sentences and a button almost no one pressed and we didn't have at least acess to the app so we can say "Ok, at least we all own a part of Skatehype". .
I blame all of us
We could make a deal from the beggining as Skatehive-Skatehype but we didn't and later on after many meetings and chats we thought Miguel understood our plans and how web 3 works but he didn't or didn't want to and we kept working for a web 2 app cause we thought it was gonna be owned by everyone who helped in making skatehype successful.
Not a single one of us who helped in connecting skatehype, onboarded people, did contests and moderated the community got paid, we were denied access to the code (of course Miguel had every right to do this but that's not how web 3 apps work) so no security for us in case anything happens to Miguel so we couldn't keep doing this for free without any benefit to our community (Skatehive).
Later on after we realised there was no way Miguel (creator of Skatehype) was gonna open the code to at least the team we did this proposal as skatehive to skatehype, proposal was denied and skatehype was unplugged from Hive the next day. This made me sad to be honest and that's when I realised that all my efforts of propoting skatehype to our community (skatehive) has gone to waste.
In Miguel's defence, he was polite at me but I feel a bit fooled to be honest. Life goes on though and we as skatehive team will never stop building open-source tools accessible to everyone. We build Web 3 style!
Cheers