My Plan To Help Onboarding - Are You Ready To Help?

The last few days posting, reading posts and engaging in leofinance community made me realize a lot of things, which put together resulted in a plan that is taking shape in my head for now and next week I'm starting to implement it.

The whole thing started when I wrote about how crypto and blockchain technology influenced my personal finance, then reading @ taskmaster4450's post had to finally realize that ten years of my work is at risk and watching @nathanmars working on onboarding new users on Twitter gave me the idea to start working on a plan, that can help a lot in the future, I hope

From January 2018 Till Now

When joining Hive I needed to make a decision about what language to use. My mother tongue is Hungarian, I speak English but wasn't sure it was enough to survive here. Posting in Hungarian would have limited me a lot as the total number of Hungarian users I met here in three years is around ten, most of whom have been posting in English and most of whom are not active anymore. Right now I know only 3 active Hungarian users, myself included. So I chose to use English as I wanted to learn and practice my English and also connect and communicate with the community.

English is not the only language used on Hive, but it's the most used, no doubt. There Spanish community is considerable, and you see other languages used as well, but let's be honest, if you don't write bilingual posts, your content can be read only by those speaking the language. No one is going to bother to translate your post, unless there are suspicions of plagiarism.

Most of the frontends, except one, are in English and I don't know any immediate plans for that to change. There's plenty to do around here, I know devs are working on integrating functions we don't have yet, so switching to different languages is probably a plan for the future. Ecency has a project to translate the dapp into 70 languages if I'm not mistaken. I've been contributing with Hungarian, but had to put it aside due to lack of time. The project is still ongoing, so I'm planning to resume my translating activity and help finish the job.

We keep talking about onboarding, which is great, but if we really want massive onboarding, we have to think about those who don't speak English or their English is not good enough. We need these users too.

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My Plan

As I mentioned yesterday, I want to bring my blog content from Blogspot to hive, to save it from disappearing one day. Those are recipes written in Hungarian over a period of ten years, roughly.

The best solution is to set up a dedicated account and do bilingual posts. I also intend to use a tag, based on which one can find Hungarian content. I'm not sure which one yet, I need to do a search and decide later.

There are plenty of users who's first language is not English. I don't have any statistics to back this statement but the number is huge. If we start using our mother tongue as well, we encourage a lot more users to join.

To Devs

Now that communities are working well, people got used to choosing the right community based on the topic they post about (mostly), there's time to make another step in developing communities.

@guiltyparties had a post a month ago, a Communities Brainstorming Challenge, in which he asked us to come up with 3 ideas that would improve communities.

One of the suggestions was to implement subcategories in communities, or subdivisions.

Allow communities to sub-divide their content easier and decide what sub-divisions of content they are most interested in so that it encourages that type of content. @jarvie

If we want to keep this community system ongoing, there should be a Language filter implemented, that would allow users to choose preferred language. This subdivision system would allow organizing posts based on language as well.

I know there are already a number of communities based on language, which is ok, one does not exclude the other.

Getting Out Of Our Bubble

To get my content out in the big world, I'm setting up a dedicated account on Twitter, share my posts and connect with Hungarian users for now. Focusing on language seems more important in this matter. I hate Fb, so that is out of the question for now but I'm open to any good suggestion where to share my posts.

Posting in two languages is time consuming but adding the same text in your native language should be easier. The benefits of creating non English content now will show later.