Dear @fitinfun
I've testes HIVES and in current form I don't see much use for them.
Those who think about launching their own tribe will have a very hard time attracting authors to post within their tribes. Especially if they will end up competing with current and well established ones. Like SteemLeo or 3speak.
Tribes are also not well organized - just like you've mentioned - adding some random looking tag as our main tag doesn't look well.
Insteaf seeing hive-12345, I would rather like to see name of community that is related to this particular hive ID. For instance 'Roses and flowers community'. It's cannot be that hard to do little programming and make it more visually attractive. Seeing tag HIVE-number doesn't tell me anything.
Upvoted already,
Yours, Piotr
I know they will have real names once they are out of beta, @crypto.piotr. This was mentioned at steemfest. I have more info since writing this post, and will have another one out soon. I'm getting on board with the larger and more established hives, and getting good upvotes from it. So I will give my strategies for other minnows to try as well. Stay tuned :)