One year of Hive! - A look at the year that's been and the year ahead

in #hivebday3 years ago

Hello Hive community! We hope you have all experienced as much great enthusiasm for our blockchain over the past week as we have following the 1 year anniversary since the Hive HF, a 5 year anniversary since the start of the chain, and some well-deserved movements in the HIVE price recently.

We see all of the above as great opportunities for some grassroots community marketing, and would like to encourage everyone to assist in showing the social proof for our chain by making some noise on social media. Whether it is sharing @hiveio's great article Celebrating the First Year of Hive, or simply giving a like and comment to its recent tweets sharing it. One year ago, we made sure the whole world was aware of our story, we can do it again!

But also, we thought this was a good opportunity for us to share some thoughts on the past year that has been, what we've done as a witness, and some of the things that we look forward to doing more of in the year ahead.

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It's been an exciting year since Hive's unique birth, but we think the next one will be even better

Hive's story is special, not just for us

Looking back to this period last year, it is almost hard to believe everything that happened. It is safe to say that it was one of the craziest and eventful experiences we've ever had, and likely one of the most special stories ever to take place in the blockchain space. Which says a lot.

One year ago, our team got to play an active role - alongside many other witnesses, developers, stakeholders, and long-time community members - in dealing with the circumstances our chain found itself in. Late nights were spent discussing the right courses of actions, coding a fork, and getting up late at night to try and have meaningful dialogue with the Tron Foundation. The rest, as they say, is history. But today, one year later, it's easy to be proud of what we did and everyone else who helped make it happen.

So what have we as a witness done the past year?

Looking back at the year that has been, the list of things that our witness, @steempress, has been involved with is starting to become a long one as we've:

The best for Hive is yet to come

Looking forward on the year ahead, we are particularly excited about the new capabilities for second layer applications and increased flexibility those will bring to communities and dApps. To us, this will further cement one of the key pillars to our vision for Hive, namely it's ability to allow multiple different teams and community projects, covering entirely different topics of interest or completely different types of products, to build and grow their own projects on Hive and achieve their own success while bringing value back to the blockchain and token in pursuit of their own ambitions.

We've come a very long way since Steemit Inc first introduced a blockchain mainly designed to support a very specific reddit-like website. In the five years since, the chain has evolved to also include projects, businesses and communities that are completely different to this original plan. Although some of these new projects have very little to do with social media themselves, they still benefit greatly from Hive's innate social features, capability to integrate a social platform, and to provide instant access to a supportive community. This, we believe, will continue to be the most vital value proposition and differentiating factor between Hive and alternative blockchains. One that if showcased correctly can help attract more projects and businesses to Hive going forward.

Therefore, we will do our best to contribute to new development in this direction, and prioritize work that supports this vision for Hive's success. That's why we are particularly excited and motivated to help advance Hive communities once we've successfully and securely completed HF 25. Much more of this to come later, but we already know you'll like it!

We hope again that you, the Hive community, are as excited as we are for the next year ahead and look forward to building it with you!

@Fredrikaa and @Howo

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Thanks for building Exxp.io - it was a huge part in deciding to set up my own website and honestly it's great to post and then jump on the Hive blockchain where I personally find a lot more interaction with my content. Thanks for everything you've done and I look forward to see where Exxp.io goes in the next year.

Appreciate it a lot! And good to hear that we're providing something useful to you :). Hopefully, you'll be as excited as we are about some upcoming changes ;)

I am one of those social users that is looking forward to HF 25. I think all the developers have been doing a pretty good job on fixing and stabilizing the block chain, while at the same time making it more useful and functional to a pretty wide variety of people, businesses, and organizations. Thank you all for the work and dedication to the project.

Thank you! I think for many, the content of HF 25 may not sound too "sexy" as it is indeed more optimization work for the most part. Although it is vital to stay competitive as a great choice for dApp and community builders to come.

There are now some really cool plans for what we can do next, and I look forward to seeing us take communities to the next level. I really do believe they can be "our NFTs".

great post!

Amazing. A focus on community is needed, glad you want to work in this direction.

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Exelente trabajo, muy instructivo, gracias por compartir.

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Couple of suggestions for the Exxp wordpress plug-in...

Currently the tags you add in wordpress seem to be alphabetized when posted to hive instead of the order you put them in originally. This can lead to a post showing up with a first tag of something other than what you intended. Is there a way to maintain the order of the tags? Or maybe a way to at least specify the first tag?

Also, it would be nice if there were some alternative way to select the number of words that get posted to hive. For me, how many I want varies with the post based on where a good cutoff-point is. I don't know a good way to do this...maybe some special tag or string of characters or something in the post itself to choose where the cut-off is.

Otherwise, great plug-in!

@exxp @howo @Fredrikaa is this plugin still supported? Says on WordPress it hasn't been updated in 11 months. I know for a fact I reported issues months ago and others have too.

Are you going to support this thing or what? Hell, this blog has been dead for months with no update of post. Would you please consider turning it over to someone else if you are unable to support it anymore?

Extension reposted the same old post (Roses) two additional times without being installed on the source WP blog and without me ordering it to do so. Can you check what was that about? Thank you.

You both have done great work and its very much appreciated by anyone I can speak for including myself.

Thank you! And all the same back to you :)