RE: It's easy to follow the crowd.

Most outside people don't like long form posts or blogs but there is a place for it and for the short form too.

I always felt that hive tries to cater to too many tastes in the one site and that we need sperate sites for each type of content and community.

Someday we might have real breakaway communities where people can find what interests them.

At the moment we're working on something sports related so that might help you stay interested when it's sports specific and people are only there for sports if it works out.....

It's the way forward if it was possible for each community to break away and built their own space for each subject with external members who know nothing about hive or the inner workings. Just sports or movies or ww2 history or whatever people are actually interested in.