Hi Hive account@roadscape. Great work with communities. It is very exciting stuff and your attention to detail really shows. Thank you for your hard work.

I am sure you have considered this idea but just in case you haven’t I wanted to run it by you. Have you considered having private communities in which posts and comments from those communities are encrypted on the blockchain in such a way that only community members can view them? This would allow group, such as witnesses, to have a place on chain for all their discussions, etc without the need for third parties such as discord which fragments the communities and adds an extra hurdle. This would also allow small groups of friends, say old college buddies, to form a community without others being able to view their content. Essentially you would get Facebook like functionality if you wanted it in a decentralized format. To avoid steem reward abuse, maybe all private post and comments must decline payouts or something like that but they could earn that communities SMTs or whatever.

What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks again. What you have built is very impressive.

*Edit: this would also allow for subscription based services where only individuals that have paid the monthly subscription are in the community and therefore can see the community contents.