One thing I wanna note about our onboarding, it's been very word of mouth, meaning active onboarders who weren't many, mainly onboarded people they knew somewhat and could trust. Sure there's some bad apples everywhere, but this helped us with giving them good votes on their intro posts cause we knew they had gone through webinars, p2p talks/discussions and often even guides to ensure newcomers knew how hive works and what isn't accepted here as a user. This lead to a lot of users who got invited inviting other users they knew through the same onboarders. This meant concentration in few areas of cities of different countries naturally but it also meant better retention cause someone knew someone always and they had an easy time subscribing to communities of their interests and following people they may somewhat know or be friends with on Facebook for instance.

I'm hoping to be able to bring this back soon, hopefully with a fresh onboarding tool since hiveonboard died out and with some fresh onboarders and returning ones looking to bring people in and earn some rewards for their time and efforts.

Will read the rest of the post in the morning.