yeah honestly i didn't think this place would still have about 5k active users this many years in, with communities barely pushing 200 weekly posters, i didn't think we'd be stuck with finance/travel/photography as the main subjects on here when communities first rolled out either

the price is weak but that doesn't really bother me, the low trade volume does though and it does feel like we're treading a very thin line with a potential delisting on binance if things don't pick up

there's some good stuff appearing here and there for us, some of the front-ends are adding some really neat features, but they're features for existing hive users and aren't going to attract anyone new; and whatever marketing is being funded is basically like pissing into the wind

the only thing we have going for us is splinterlands and that's something the hive chain started with, and even so, blockchain games aren't particularly appealing to anyone in this market, they went the way of the NFT

again i know it's so easy to complain, and it's so easy to point fingers, there's a good argument to be made of well why haven't i personally done anything? in some ways that's a fair judgement to make, i don't blame any specific person or group, it's more that we as a collective have been dragging our feet a little

instead of finding ways to draw in attention, we're focusing on nonsensical things like KE and who is supposedly over-rewarded when others make 4x more than the average person per post

whenever it comes to discussions like this, i tend to just shut up and ignore it, and do my own thing; just post what i want and go, but sometimes i see a post like ours and can't help but agree that we're definitely a bit lost

there was a time where we were raging on about getting smart contracts up and going, that was the go-to thing for hive's success, and now that's dead in the water too in the industry; we aren't even trying to chase trends anymore (web2.0 or web3.0), we're just chugging along as each day comes and goes, like the ambition died and we're just clinging to the reward pool