Hey! Long time!

Good to see you back around, I haven't been here too much myself.

Yes communities is finally live, woohoo!! If you go to beta.steemit.com you can check out all the communities there, and if you have 3 steem, you can start one yourself.

There are still lots of kinks to iron out, but hey, it's a start :-)

How are you doing, still in S.E. Asia?

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I think search functions have been a big let down on Steemit from day one, I'm not sure why, as it's not that difficult to code some smart search features in.

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> I changed the tags of my old chess posts to integrate them into the new community, but currently I cannot see them there.

This doesn't work. Hive id tag MUST BE the primary tag, at least until roadscape figures out a solution to deal with other aspects like resteeming or cross-posting, which may require this to be reworked.

Do you want a solution to that? Create an index post in your new community, and add the links to your older posts in there. You can even pin that index post. I do that at SteemHelp.

> When searching for communities, one should be able to find ALL of them.

That is true. However, when I checked a few weeks ago there were over 500 Hive communities. Might be close to 1000 now. It's not a good solution to list them all, especially since the number will only grow. This will probably be fixed when search and filters will be introduced. Right now only active communities are displayed. Not sure myself how "activity" is defined, seems to be a combination of number of subscribers and posts / comments from different people. Right now the only way to find a community which isn't listed in "Explore" is through direct link. Then remember to subscribe and it will be in your list.
> I wonder how to sort the list of the people I follow in an alphabetical order, so that it is easy for example to find certain user names in case one is not completely sure anymore how to spell them?

About sorting people you follow or followers that's a good suggestion for general interfaces, which list them in the reversed order of follow; you can search or see them ordered from SteemWorld.

Yeah, something along those lines would be nice, with maybe a show all button for people who like seeing all posts in a feed.

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#### *When do we get to peek inside SteemPeak Hive communities? :)*
<br>PS: ...and I have a suggestion. I suppose the avatars are from the "hive-" accounts. If so, I'd use an avatar with more persons inside (like a group) as default, something to symbolize a community, more than one person. Something like this
![group-avatar-256.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmY3RBZijzRQsDfKJASaYbLc36FP5C4V9RSsAByFRT6eM7/group-avatar-256.png)
but keeping the theme already used for default avatars on SteemPeak.

Yes thank you @roadscape, the follow function has been fixed. 

As for the second issue, it seems to be fine on some views, however I've noticed a couple of views yesterday were still displaying the hive number, and of course the url itself is still a hive num.

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