It is important to remember that Hive is now just a month old. What an incredible month it is.
No, Hive is not a top 20 token in terms of market cap. Nor have we seen millions of people suddenly sign up. This is all still part of Hive's future road map.
What is vital is that Hive just started producing blocks a month ago. It was nothing more than a plan. Today, we see a lot of progress even though it might not be completely obvious.
When the fork took place, it is crucial to understand that most of the infrastructure on Steem was provided by Steemit Inc. This was a situation that was allowed to take place, probably out of convenience. Thus, much of the infrastructure had to be created from scratch.
Right now, we're in a period of heavy preparation and careful double checking. There's a lot to do that still relates to the creation of a new chain and laying the groundwork for future advances, so focus has been directed toward API, image hosting, condenser, and base code workflow and deployment. Much of it feels like technical background mumbo jumbo and can be hard to follow since it's "behind the scenes," so this past week may have felt a bit more boring than the initial launch. All of this is truly awesome Hive news, but it can be hard to create meaningful, useful communication about some of these things in giant posts once a week or so.
@hiveio/around-the-hive-coming-this-week
It is easy to forget how much takes place in the background to ensure an online system is operating. This is multiplied when the community was basically starting from zero with a lot of things. Something such as image hosting is taken for granted by the user base yet is a crucial aspect to any social medium these days. Once again, that was handled by Steemit Inc in the past.
Over the years, we all saw how that organization went completely silent. I guess that is the thing to do when not much was being accomplished. After some time of over promising and under delivering, it was probably easiest to just keep quiet.
Here we see fairly consistent communication. A lot of the work being done right now is on the "backbone" of the system. This is not sexy nor glamorous but necessary before going forward. Sometimes, a bit more time spent in the beginning getting something set up properly will save loads of headaches later.
Obviously, the development teams for the applications were tasked with a monumental job of converting their platforms over. Here again, to the average user, the work involved is not evident to us. We are only aware of the situation when things do not work.
Each week, we are witnessing more of the services we were familiar with on Steem coming to life on Hive. This is accomplished as all the developers finally are catching up. As the Hiveio post stated, there is still a lot to do yet we can see progress being made.
I was optimistic about the potential of Steem because of the community. As it turns out, we had a major albatross hanging around out necks. That was removed with the fork and establishment of Hive.
Therefore, I am even more optimistic about Hive. It is obvious the community is going to push things forward at a much greater pace than we saw on Steem. One of the benefits of this fork is the fact that all falls upon the community. There is no organization to point to and say "they will handle it". Instead, the developers have the onus upon them to keeps advancing the infrastructure in a meaningful way.
With the progress that was made over the first month, we can expect far greater potential than before. This is truly a community driven initiative. Over time, I believe we will see the "grassroots" aspect of things provide the swell that was missing on Steem.
Thousands of people are fully committed to making this into a raging success.
The rest of the year is going to be very exciting on Hive.
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