Yeah as great as Splinterlands is it's not really promoting Hive. It's like gaming on consoles. Users would be active on their game communities to connect* with other gamers but they don't really care or need to join any SONY/MICROSOFT forums in order to enjoy their game or interact with their friends.
So what's missing?
*CONNECT.
Hive is losing that to DISCORD.
If users had a chat system ON HIVE then those gamers would have a secondary tool built on Hive that would then be able to present them ability to open new doors and see what else HIVE has.
Shit it's just insane that the same person that built Splinterlands also created BEECHAT yet he doesn't develop it to the point where it can become completely integrated with HIVE and kick discord to the curve.
@aggroed the question becomes.. WHY?
You likely make good dough from SL and will make more now... but then you made a post recently wanting grassroots support for you as a witness.. so then don't you think HIVE needs that chat feature as a fundamental.
BE THE MAN.. MAN!
SAVE THIS BEES NEST!
Because developing something to be truly exceptional is intense.
I understand your point, but I don't see it as big of a problem that Discord exists, simply because it's just too good. If we want to compete with Discord, we have to offer something that Discord doesn't have, which is difficult, simply because it's really good at what it does.
PeakD has chat and DM. Had it for awhile. Seems to work fine.
It's a bit of mess. Some of these folks are fans of segregated cliques. It'll bite them in the ass down the road. I've grown bored of talking about how important it is to build and maintain roads between projects in order to take advantage of a shared consumer base.