I should have probably rephrased my thoughts on solution 2. I think it can help a lot. But it also requires a fair amount of work, so it's not something that can be done quickly. And all my frontend devs have been tied up on other projects began before Hive, so I'm waiting for some of them to free up for frontend work like this.
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Obviously it requires work but for a long term vision, I agree keyword searches made in platform would be helpful for content/author discovery and other related tasks like trying to figure out something about the platform like for troubleshooting or "how to" , I'm no dev and sometimes run into roadblocks and I just end up ignoring the problem because it's easier than looking for how to get the desired outcome. I have been wanting this aspect on the platform since day 1. Obviously, easily finding answers does help with usability of the product and may help in making the platform more user friendly which should be a long term goal anyway. It's ok once you learn the ropes, but for a new user this place looks complicated and could translate into why on-boarding and retention may less than desirable at the moment. Hopefully you consider @bescouted 's suggestion in the future.
There is some work being done on keyword searching by good-karma: https://hive.blog/hive/@good-karma/open-search-engine-development-and-maintenance
But I think there's many things that can be done to improve the frontends, once we have more devs available to work on them.
That's awesome! Thanks for letting me know. Cheers!
That is a bit different solution. Or i might lack knowledge how search actually works. As far as good-karma considered his solution is indexing all the content and providing results based on the content body itself. Which might be useful if it is working really well and sophisticated, and if it is seamlessly integrated into front end products. Even then ability to add keywords or tags would be usefull, they could even be entered into the same field as it is now on Hive.
@blocktrades How many tags are now taken into consideration 5 main and 8 total?
I appreciate you giving it another thought. Really. Think about it. Why do you or most of the people use Hive? To write a post, yes. It is fun to share your adventures or ideas for some people to read, on a platform where you are not the product.
Get an upvote? Obviously. It triggers very powerful reward path in our body and seeing a financial number attached to it makes it very powerful stimulus. Too powerful sometimes, i'd say so it triggers actions to game the system for financial profit and we all know this too well. Since day 1.
Other than that, who is using platform for the utility, i.e. information or entertainment? Quite few people frankly, people engage in circles and loop the reward pool. Just because it is so damn frustrating and not fun to search for new content or find information that you actually need. Or get the news about a topic as well.
Why do people keep mindlessly scrolling IG for HOURS! Because content is displayed and fed so effortlessly, algos feed you with content you like and they know better.
All other things are very important in Hive too, and you guys have been doing a great job so thank you for that a lot.
But as long as we do not have a very simple, one click, friction-less signup process and proper content discovery tools this machine is not going mainstream sadly. If those two things could be fixed platform would be much more friendly, if it is doable in reasonable amount of time of course. Other than that amazing work done by devs constantly, but we need those few simple tools for simple people to keep it alive...