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RE: Its much cheaper to just complain
Ah, sorry you're feeling downhearted. I guess many of the things you are trying to do take a long time to gain traction, and you produce a lot of them very quickly.
I have tried one or two things - I was specially interested in downloading my posts, but at the time I tried, it didn't quite work for me. The post downloader seemed to get to almost the very end, maybe even on a second and third try, the penultimate post, and then crash. I never got my posts.
It could be my set up, it could be user error, and is quite likely to be either and both of those. Which brings me to the next thing I struggle with: I have limited time to explore these tools, either trying to get the ones that attract me to work for me, or understand the use and application of the others and try them out.
I accept it's me, not you.
A minor thing, and again, it's me not you, but I find the design and colour palette of the tools very old-fashioned, very nineties, and when I first saw them, that put me off a lot.
Separately, I'm with you on the peakd thing. I tend not to vote for any proposals by third parties (peakd, actifit, ecency) which should have a business plan and proper investment if they are a viable business idea. Sometimes it's a little hard to assess and I'll give the benefit of the doubt, but some of these actors have been around for years and I'm not sure why they are continuing to put proposals and be funded. We never hear a business case.
We have our fair share of complainers and occasionally they provide some entertainment, but we also have a lot of people who are just doing the best they can with what they have available to them.
Happy to have a conversation.
Edit: most recently tried the curated feed tool sponsored by friendlymoose and donated a small contribution to costs. I found some new posts which was good, but I struggled to see how I could use it on a larger scale. Maybe I was missing the point(s). Thinking about it, though, maybe I should write a post when I try something, good or bad.
I feel it both ways, and it often comes down to how I'm feeling in the final moments as I try to decide "what to write today".
HIVE memories is a tricky one, I need to build our version - this version (that doesn't quite work, I agree - its not you!) was outsourced to a friend to build the current "quick and dirty" version, you might notice its not actually linked on the site. We could do it, its not any harder than any of the other things we have done, but its really true that while we can do anything, we can't do everything at the same time.
I can't complain about the friend either - he built exactly what I asked for, a front-end only version totally dependent on "the nodes". If I had asked him to build anything more complicated, something with a backend for example - I don't think he would have done it for free (or for the price of a favor). Part of this is also me learning how things work, how dependable are front-end only apps (many things in our ecosystem are front-end only, which is why they only mostly work, sometimes).
I tried to bring it around in the end - I am having fun, I am learning a lot, I am figuring out which community members are interesting, reasonable, valuable (to me) - and this includes you! But each post must have a theme, and I guess todays theme is whinging 😅
Its ironic but I vote less proposals now than before I did my test run dhf proposal. Of course I always knew that "you didn't support me" is some sort of ammunition "later", but here we are later and I am still not sure how to be effective at firing a gun like this.
All I can do is keep being me, a human who generally is very motivated, but some days can only seem to get motivated to write a post like this one 😐
That's okay, with you all the way. There's merit in whinging and getting things off your chest. Glad to see you learning and having fun as well.
You should write a post if you try something - good or bad! Its always helpful to me, all feedback - even knowing someone tried the tool is helpful!
We will begin transitioning to a full SaaS model now. Its unlikely any significant portion of our customer base is already on HIVE. But also, now everyone knows it.