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Make sure you have your various private keys saved somewhere for your steem account, if you have not done so yet.

Maybe I can teach you how to use one of the other login apps, such as Steemconnect. They can be handy when working on a mobile device. Easier to enable it from the desktop, so it will be a cinch to login with a single click on your mobile phone.

Yay, I got logged into Hive. Have all my private keys written down from months ago. Looks like I'm good to go. Would appreciate help with login apps. Thanks!!

Sounds like you got in the old fashioned way too.

Eventually I'll figure out how to use the other login methods, so I can use hive on my phone without having to carry my key password around with me. Then I can use peakd.com, which has the smoother interface for using hive.

Here are a couple handy posts I found that walk through how it is done.

If I figure it out, and you still need help, I'll be in touch. Taking a break at the moment.

You have nothing special to do until Friday, date of the official launch ;)

Then you just need to login on hive.blog the same way you would do it on steemit.com (same credentials)