I think the solutions for this are in Communities, but what we have is just a good start. The design needs more work to function properly.
First I think it should be easy to set up an account to be auto beneficiaried for posts in a Community. This financially incentivizes people to creating active, vibrant communities. Creating and managing a Community is a lot of work for no real benefit except a macro systemic benefit. People like me will do it, but a better system would reward the behavior it wants repeated by many.
Also I think there need to be sub-communities. Like within my OnChainArt community there could be sub communities for fine art, anime/manga, graphic design, animation, 3D art, etc. It could just be an additional “suggested” tag that’s used for further filtering, but I think it would make discovery a lot better.
Then, there should be Community types. This was all in the works, but not sure what’s going to happen now since the one working on it left Steemit. There were supposed to be Communities that were open for all to post and comment(what we have now). Communities where a set of white listed people can post and everyone can comment, and a Community where only specific people can post and comment. The latter two would be good for things like Hive development news or learning material. This would make it easy to find this sort of content and it would all remain quickly and easily accessible.
In short, it all just needs more work. Considering Hive was just listed on Huobi and another exchange, I think the current focus is on foundational stuff. I’m hoping once we get settled, development will be faster to improve the feature set of applications. We ARE in a better position than we were before, but we still have a long way to go. Glad you’re still here sticking it out through all the muck.
We’re going to get there.
A community could handle it but then one must first hunt down this specific community and subscribe. Having two sections, one for all of the behind the scenes happenings, and having that section easily accessible like the 'posts', 'proposals', 'witnesses', would help tremendously, especially now (sooner rather than later) while so much development is in full swing.
Having a 'trending' page for the behind scenes news, recent developments, hive hype, etc, means one then has instant access to many communities. Many projects have or will have their own community. The communities feature doesn't make it any easier to find this content. It's no different than finding the associated accounts and following, especially if there are a lot of communities.
Personally, I'm not a fan of micromanaging. Being organized is good but to a point. These trending pages to me are like the junk drawers in my house. That's not a bad thing. If I ever need something, I always know the first place to look is that junk drawer. Communities can be like that stack of boxes in the garage at times. Gotta tear the whole garage apart just to find one little thing because you need it for five minutes.
I recognize the fact this project is still in its infancy, needs more time to grow and develop before it can even walk. I respect all the work happening and the people doing it. Certainly not going to force my ideas on anyone or start making demands. I like a lot of the ideas floating around, including some of yours, and I am confident at some point everything will begin to gel.