Memories from some years ago...
The interface I normally use to publish my posts seemed to be frozen in time some hours ago and I decided to venture onto another interface I haven't used in a while for my post from today.
That's how I got to Ecency, an interface and community that I appreciate, unfortunately, we can't be everywhere, at least not efficiently.
As I went to my profile, I noticed the Ecency points I've been receiving from time to time for various reasons and from different sources, one of them being my friends from Our Pick (i.e. Liotes), who I understand also distribute such points as a gift when they choose posts for their daily picks.
But something else caught my attention. On the same profile page, the communities I moderate or am an admin of are also listed.
During the early days of Hive communities - when they were still in open testing I think - I created two such communities.
Both of them are inactive now. One was never truly active (SteemRomania) and the other lost its scope when we moved from the legacy chain to Hive (SteemHelp). And they both suffer from the issue many projects had back then, to add the name of the chain in front of it.
Going through some of the posts of SteemHelp, I stopped at this one:
How were the first accounts created on Hive?
I changed the name of the chain here since the legacy is common and can be used interchangeably.
I had a curiosity which I expressed in this form of a post, and I've got my answer.
Unfortunately, @crokkon, a guy I used to engage with at length in the past, decided to "mask" his posts and comments for some reason, as you can see if you look at the comments on the post (he is still vested in Hive).
Of course, the original unedited information is still on the Hive chain, but I didn't even have to bother to look for it, as the gist of the comment could be understood from our conversation and the fact I used quotes.
For anyone interested to understand how the first couple hundred accounts were created, which were the very first, and for what purpose they were created, this is still an interesting blog post I believe, despite being filled with the name of the legacy chain all over the place.
You can check out other posts too. Most information no longer applies to Hive, but for historical purposes, it may be useful.
Here's another Q&A you might find interesting. Read the comments! :)
Well, I hope you enjoy history trips as much as I do. This wasn't planned, but was nice!
That was an interesting "blast from the past" 😃
Do you plan to run some community? The idea of a "regional" community isn't that bad...
No, I don't think I'll start another one for the time being.
That one didn't work for us it seems. We had (have) a discord server too. But we seem to like to be part of different communities and our national-based discord slowly died off (and the community hasn't really picked up interest).
Yup' that's really nice to know about that.
I know it is for me. Not sure if it is for folks in general. :)
The previous version of ecency was busy.org, right?
No, it wasn't. I might be wrong, but I believe that interface had a Korean team behind it, and they stopped supporting it way before the split.
Nice sharing from the past. I enjoyed reading it.
Thanks. I enjoyed writing it.
It must have been like this in the beginning because there were very few people using it and the way you're saying that if you want to make a community you have to do. The way we are now seeing new users are coming over and using the old stuff that has been created.
That's true, only a few people started the whole thing.
Yeah.
Ever since I began to use Ecency. I found it easy and I have nit changed since then. Nice one!!!
Yeah, Ecency has a few unique things as an interface and a big community using it.
😉👍 cool! some hive history..
I also use ecency often and am really liking their points system. :)
pa. I luv the way old books look..
That's an interesting way to promote your post. And can be earned in various ways.
We'll start to forget how those look like with all the tech surrounding us. Especially new generations.
Hi @gadrian thank you for the refreshing little history of Hive. This was nice and it made me think of why Hive was so confusing and hard for me at first. It's because of all the different User Interfaces. It takes some time to get use to if you were brought up with rotary telephones. Things have really changed for Baby Boomers. Anyway it was very confusing at first as well as Hive and all the tokens. Your article helps. Thank you. Barb 😊 !BBH !CTP
I was born with rotary phones too! In fact, we didn't even have one in our home until I was in school (and that was in the 80s but in a communist country at the time).
Yep, times have changed dramatically, and we seem to have almost unlimited resources to adapt.
Oh wow @gadrian that must have been something to live in a communist country. I just take too long to catch on and its hard for me to retain everything. But I'm a lot better than my other sisters and brother LOL. They refuse to use a computer at all. 😆 !BBH !CTP
Yes, it was. It's a different world.
I get that. My father refused to use a smartphone for a long time. And now he is searching the internet for information on his smartphone.
That's great about your father @gadrian 😃 My brother and sisters are ridiculous. Oh my brother is a little better and has a smartphone and does text messaging 😆 !BBH !CTP
Reminds me of the first subject I taught.
Yep, history is good at that. Reminders. :)
And we need it to give us a broader perspective and somehow a sense of direction for the days ahead.
Unfortunately, we often don't learn from history.
That's also a sad fact.
Now, my teammate took me down memory lane. And it was an added value. Thank you.
I wonder why your interactive friend masked his posts and comments. I know he will be in the right place to answer that.
Hive does have different frontends, and like you, I had to use one of my favorites in the last two days.
I have no idea, really. He could have gone into a passive mode without doing that.
Thanks for dropping by, Iska!