It does take time to get use to Hive, and all the little things, at least you have a good group of mentors/friends to help each other out. @mammasitta is a great person, she helped me a lot when I first joined steem.
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Hello, bashadow. I noted you mentioned me.
The point is, it is hard to get visibility here. So I am still not convinced if it is worth to stick on this platform, as I can see a lot of potential on YouTube, for example.
I thought on creating a new community specific for animations, but I realized it costs 3 HIVE. So I started to POWER DOWN, because I wasn't sure how everything worked on wallet, so I was clicking here and there, and I realized that HIVE POWER couldn't be used to create new communities. So I decided to POWER DOWN and wait some weeks to get back here.
One of the big issues as I see it. There really is nowhere to send new people to help them understand the system, so much is hit and miss and try this, just to see what works.
Now it seems I have quite 10 HIVE on wallet. So I think I can start creating communities on Hive. But I am not sure if it really is worth the struggle or if I should leave the platform. Have you experience on creating new communities? How hard is to get people on board on new communities? I wouldn't like to waste money if it is quite impossible to get new users on new communities. I don't know how people could find a new community created by me, for example.
It is as difficult getting new people in a community and building a community as it is in getting established as an individual on Hive. Right now there are a lot of communities on Hive, most have a hard time getting established.
An example is I follow 5 Photography Communities. They have from 0 active users with 140 subscribers, (the low side), to 291 active users with 1049 subscribers. Pretty small numbers when you see the amount of photography related post. The large catch all community of GEMS has 1656 active users, and almost 6000 followers.
Remember though Hive Block Chain has only been active for about four months, it is still in its settling in phase. As for getting your community seen, peakd has worked on getting a post promotion system working where you pay to have your post/Advertisement moved higher on the explore tags and feeds list.
I still see a lot of value on Hive. I just needed one friend to get in talk once in a while to get me some advice and make me confident on trying things here.
That will come with time. There are actually a lot of people that are willing to try and help out, both small accounts to medium and large accounts. Also there are so many ways and means of using Hive, that very few people can cover all aspects of it. I know a bit about the PeakD front end, however I could give no advice at all on how to use busy.org, or hive.blog, or eCency, or any of the other front ends.
but the real truth is, last month some people very important to me died due to coronavirus, so I forgot about Hive for some time... but I'm already thinking on some posts
Sorry to hear about the loss. Sometimes having something to do to take our mind off of tragedy is helpful.