1. OK.
2. OK, so I think the degree to which your proposal is funded is to some extent the degree to which people value the services you are developing as a result of the funding.
3. As I am currently focused on my health here, I don't have much time to spare, unfortunately - it's quite an urgent situation.
4. I never hear anyone I know talking about badges at all, so it's not an area I am familiar with. I thin this area is genuinely seen as very low priority in the context of the larger challenges.

FWIW

1. Yes, the Ecency proposal is meant to cover it. I have suggested SPK apply for it too several times, but they are funding with their own money and don't want to hit the DHF twice AFAIK.
2. OK, though I may have missed the extent to which Beem/Nectar will be developed/expanded. I just checked the kanban page and see that the legacy issues are being addressed - though I don't see much in the way of expansion of scope.
3. The documentation is a huge project/requirement in my mind. Previous documentation for Hive has been too limited, often outdated quickly and also sometimes just incomplete throughout. If I compare it to docs from other similar open source projects, they are a world apart. Not only do the docs need to be technically accurate and written by experienced coders and technical authors, but they also should ideally have some degree of modern web design applied. This is something I almost never see on Hive in any context. So it would be great to see examples of relevant work of whoever is tasked with this aspect. I haven't seen that yet.

FYI, I come from a background of professional development and also digital marketing. I've put quite a bit of time into trying to get the standards raised on Hive for the UX but typically I find that I am either ignored or the projects just don't have the budget to have work completed to full market norms. I appreciate that we are competing with projects who sometimes have very large budgets - but many also do not, so I aim to do what I can to try to nudge projects in that direction.