I'm always amazed how things in the crypto world are made over complicated. Unfortunately, it's still a world reserved to people who are not scared of learning new things...

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This is so true.  Our squirrel brains love the short attention span economy that is being promoted right now. Generations now live on their phones and love short form for filling in the free moments of their day.  Bathroom, riding the bus/train, on a work break.  Even YouTube has had to embrace the facts of short form or suffer the consequences.

I think large credit of Hive's current growth is splinterlands and Leofinance. I feel that more people are knowing about Hive through these two projects. I wish we could have more projects which would bring flow of people here. I guess on that note more projects here the better. Soon Hive won't be just another crypto but something that people are transacting for real world projects. Small steps to that point.. :)

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I've always been a fan of reducing/removing friction in any onboarding process. There's a whole lot of unnecessary crap that gets added as part of the "Complexity Bias" mentioned by the first commentor.

Example: If you're sending out a tweet inviting people to join Hive, don't forget to add the join link instead of making them hunt around for it. Let's show them the ease and simplicity, along with the power inherent in Hive.</div>

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Quality of words counts. I believe F. Scott Fitzgerald's publisher said 10 of his words were worth 100 of someone else's. Often a novelist's best work is his/her shortest. !BBH

Making things simple is the easiest way to onboard users so I completely agree with you. I also prefer Hive keychain over Metamask.

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>Short form content (apps like @liketu) NEED to be supported by the community. Even if you don't like pictures of people's apple pies or cats on Saturday, embrace the project and what it can bring to the blockchain.  

  You are indeed right it needs Support from the community because of what it brings to the blockchain. Indeed that a great statement I read today,

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I totally agree with you. Brevity and simplicity are key factors in these days and age. There are so many things to do and so little time. Every site on the net is fighting for your eyeballs. You just don't have time to waste on anything that doesn't catches your attention in the first 20 seconds. Have something to say - keep it short and simple. 

Curators here have to redefine their 'quality post' if they want mass adoption.

Keep chipping away at complexity, @jongolson! Sooner rather than later the message will be heard loud and clear! And we will see the necessary improvements in the user experience to facilitate mass adoption!

Simplifying is always harder than complicating. That's why many people take the easy way out. But the future is in simplicity. Beauty is in simplicity. People are where it's clear...

Couldn't agree more, because average users will still find onboarding complicated and confusing. Mass adopted applications are still working towards making their apps user friendlier, so same should go for this platform.

Furthermore, I have a harder time choosing a 1000 letter post, because I would like to use that time to read more content and engage more, instead of that one person.

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Without a doubt you are right keeping things simple is essential to improve. But I fear that society is not going in that direction. Hopefully here at Hive we can swim against the tide.
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With the short attention span humans have, only keeping it simple will we be able to understand things.  That's why short form contents are always trending and on the rise, it's just way easier to both write it and read it. 

I 100% agree with this.

On a completely different topic but in the same mindset, I discovered that I was working with a company whose Health and Safety management systems update and evolve every year. BUT what they were doing was adding more and more signed paperwork and more and more folders and sections into their online file system. More things instead of making the existing things better or more performance orientated.

I found out that there is something called "Complexity Bias" where people tend to believe that something that is more complicated must be better. We are talking about a system upgrade, software or hardware engineering, and any number of other things.

And yet over-complex systems and long learning curves for users definitely DO steer people away from coming aboard.

Additional to preventing someone from onboarding, is actually retaining the people you onboard which statistically seems to be even harder. Currently, there seem to be over 2.4 MILLION registered Redfish accounts on Hive of which there are currently only 22,000-odd of those who are active Redfish. 

Again, as you say, simplicity and user-friendliness would be key to keeping them as opposed to complication.