Hello dear friend @focusnow.
When I met the hives of beta.steemit I felt that they had created something unnecessary. I didn't find the meaning.
That is, the communities are ourselves, who organize and share efforts and interests. If we want a space for our community then we can create a steem account and that's it. Just as @project.hope was working.
Then they launch the hives.
In my opinion it was a desperate attempt to give a novelty to steemit. When things aren´t done enough planning then many details remain unpolished.
Don't you think that hives are a version of the tribes?
So why didn't they offer improvements to the tribes instead of creating hives?
Well, they are already a reality, so we must adapt and move forward.
This post seems excellent to put in context the new users and also those who had moved away and are now back.
ps: thanks for using as an example to @project.hope.
Your friend, Juan.
In a way I think that the hives are not a version of the tribes, I think they are rather a bit inferior, because the tribes allowed to share post with the use of the different labels, but the hives force that each post can only be shared In a particular hive, not being visible from the others, this could be explained as an attempt to better segment the publications addressed to each user group, but it does not convince me.
As it is a Beta, it's time to wait to see how it develops.