"We still need better onboarding, smoother UX, stronger marketing, and more liquidity paths so people can actually get in and out of Hive easily.'

The Hive marketing department are successful creators' posts. That's what drew >1m users to onboard after April 2017. All those users are gone today, and Hive is <10k users today. Why?

Because they were flagged off the platform, taxed 100% of their earnings. All of them that left were outraged, and rightfully so, because taxation is theft. They told everyone they could hold still long enough to pour vitriol regarding Hive/Steem into their ears, and the noxious stench today permeates the air around the very mention of Hive.

Better UX wouldn't hurt, and liquidity paths do matter. But those won't solve the central problem that Hive has, which is that creators can be taxed to the limits of the stake of any user on a whim, and has atrocious user retention because of that.

Solve that problem, or it won't matter how many people onboard, what the UX is, or what liquidity paths there are.

Thanks!