I agree, it needs a lot more traffic. We have seen so many accounts vanish over last year that it's nearly pathetic. Very few people view my posts now, and my engagement in down compared to even six months ago. I know the price of Hive doesn't help, but it's the only factor. There are many roadblocks that slow down anyone new from signing up, unless they have someone guiding them.

Even then once they are in they may post but get no support and from utter frustration leave when their post go completely ignored. It's hard to noticed here on Hive and break into a community. That brings up another issue, many communities themselves are suffering from lack of engagement.

We need to get more people interested in onboarding which is difficult. Once they do retention rates are abysmal, and those who enjoy writing may continue because they enjoy it despite lack of real rewards. Those with the biggest rewards received get them all from autovotes and rarely have any engagement, and they carry away most of the benefits.

At this point I'm not sure how to fix things, even SEO won't bring people into Hive. It's a great chain, but it's underutilized... Hopefully we can find ways to increase interest, but it's going to need be something big. Rally cars aren't going to it.

Thanks for the HSBI, I just wish I had a better answer.