I agree with your transparency ideology but you can't expect post comments to suffice for giving people a platform to build their connections and feel like calling Hive home. I agree on staying on the Hive ecosystem but not on making every discussion open. I would have it that open chat gets incremental rewards but give ability for encrypted privacy too with reduced reward because sometimes users might be exchanging truly private information like address or a discussion about personal life experiences.

Plus open discussion might work when a highly engaged posts gets 100 tops comments but if a significant amount of users ever join here, and the post gets over a thousand average comments then that's a messy affair. Plus @peakd still hasn't fixed the notifications to replies. A user needs to scroll through a single dump reply chain.

Is it any better on hive.blog?

Anyway there's a lot of issues here and the one thing I was thinking just now after a discussion with @edicted is that the reason many of these issues aren't attended to is because most that are still here committed to gaining a dollar are essentially "blind believers." The system to them could likely improve but hey who are they to speak up. They might lose the vote from those "whales" or be considered a black sheep. (I don't mean you edicted, I'm talking about the bulk of users.)

So then that made think...
HOW MANY REAL HUMANS ARE STILL HERE?

Because if the stats from the resident statisticians show weekly 10K users then it's clear that since the system allows unlimited accounts then the real human number would be less. It would be interesting to know that figure but I'm not a stat man and how to find that stat accurately might not even be possible. If hypothetically though every user has 2 accounts then there's 5K real humans. Not everyone will have 2 accounts but then there's savvy users with way more than 2. So then I think if LEO has around 450 weekly users and growing then extrapolating that on Hive might mean Hive has about 4K weekly users that are real humans.

That figure I believe intuitively to be correct. Anyway the point is, even if 10K real humans are here weekly then that's something I would be focusing on because the code could be legendary as edicted says, but if no one is here to see that then where is this platform going? Just like a fire, it can't burn on large without fuel. It needs that oxygen to expand its reach. Platforms like this need people and in a growth manner. A tight knit community keeps something alive but then the goal is to have the world see what you see.

So for that (this whole comment was for this purpose) ... THIS PLACE NEEDS that glue on Hive: the chat system that doesn't leak users to discord. That system that automatically connects new users to believer users.. ON HIVE. That chat that gives this place meaning beyond just clicking a button for some itty bitty reward. A place that begins to exist as a new home.. not just somewhere you try hustle or work like a fool for months without anyone giving a crap about your experience.

GROW the AUDIENCE.. improve the HOME. The rest will follow. Maybe. Nothing is guaranteed.. but nothing really comes when the product is simply unknown outside of these confines.