Long Live HIVE – (PowerHouseCreatives Contest) – HIVE Is Alive

Long Live HIVE

After two-plus weeks of going up against Justin Sun, his spokesmen, and his relentless lying and sock-puppet witness attacks, I was happy to see and 100 percent on board, with the announcement of the hard fork to create the HIVE blockchain. Now that we have it, and it seems to be starting out in a great way, no one could tell me it wasn’t the right thing to do.

It was exactly what was needed for our community in my opinion, and it had to be done in a timely manner. Those who might have feared some fork failures and downtime due to past hard-fork examples, were pleasantly surprised I hope, with how it all played out.

It was good to see some big names announcing that they were going all-in on HIVE as its creation time neared. We can thank Justin Sun once again for convincing them to leave his steem world when he began to censor community members’ posts on steemit.

These folks refused to remain under such unheard-of conditions, which run exactly opposite of free-speech on a decentralized blockchain. They made the right move in my opinion.

If we want to talk about which was better, continuing the fight with Justin Sun, his sock puppets and the suspected, colluding exchanges holding community members’ steem hostage, and using it to help Justin install his sock-puppets, OR moving to our own, new home, I needed zero motivation to make me want HIVE to be that new home.

To be honest, I was really getting both physically and mentally worn-out, getting up early everyday, spending twelve-plus hours per day on twitter and still trying to get something creative done... HIVE’s announcement to me, was a victory cry. We would win! The “ideal HIVE community,” which is what I’m supposed to write about here, is already pretty ideal in my book. I think a majority of steemians chose HIVE to be their new, exclusive home, but there are some who are posting on both steem and HIVE, and some who are just posting on steem and haven’t tried HIVE yet.

I think HIVE could become less ideal than it is right now, because right now, those who post on HIVE want, I think, for it to be more successful than steem. But we could now start having some people who are anti-HIVE to some extent, joining with an intention to disrupt things.

If there is one thing I would like to see, I would wish there was some way that the alignment and other posting options dealing with spacing and things like that, could be made to look the same regardless of the front-end being used to view it. It’s a little unnerving to look at a post I made with peakd, in the hive.blog front end, and vice versa. It’s awful in whichever one we didn’t use to create the post.

The worst thing about this issue, is that it makes nicely-aligned and stylized posts created in any front-end, to look horribly bad when viewed in an alternate front end.

I’m also noticing that posts I made in steempeak, when I’m viewing them now in peakd, they too are off and out of alignment. I wouldn’t have expected that to happen, but it is happening on my posts.

If the posting options could be made to act the same for all front ends, it would make posting on HIVE even more super fantastic than it already is!

_{Long Live HIVE © free-reign 2020}

This is my entry for the Power House Creatives contest hosted by @zord189. The contest is for PHC members, so please join us if you’d like to participate. For this week’s contest, @zord189 has tasked PHC contestants to write about HIVE, and how we would make it ideal.

Thanks for reading!

Sources for images used in this post:

_{Inspecting the Hive: Image by Thomas Völcker from Pixabay
Fatigued: Image by Jan Pražák from Pixabay}