While I haven't been on STEEM from the very start, I did join way back in 2017. Since that time I have seen the same issues repeating themselves over and over again. From what I have seen those same issues were going on since the very beginning.

Since yesterday the majority of that community has moved to HIVE and while everybody is celebrating the victory of getting away from STEEM and Justin this only really means that we have the same people in a different place. So in my opinion this is a make or break time.

Please, please, please.....

Lets not repeat the same mistakes of the past. A lot of brilliant people have been driven from the chain in my time due to the selfish actions of large stake holders and the blatant abuse of the system on a large scale. We all now have a responsibility to make HIVE a success and this won't happen if we keep doing the same old things in the same old ways.

We've gotten rid of a lot of the spammers who were trying to abuse our reward pool.
We've gotten rid of most of the bid-bots that were profiting from bad content and washing money.

We have also gotten rid of thousands of committed users through flagging for the wrong reasons. Through attacking people with a different opinion to themselves. Through voting selfishly for a closed circle of people. Through a lack of engagement with users. Through having an overly complicated system for regular users to get involved.

I'm not calling out specific users and I've done some of these things myself over my time on the chain but have tried my best to operate in a better manner and help grow users when I can. With that said I am only a small user here on HIVE doing what i can to keep it interesting and fun for others with my stake. We do however have some very large stakeholders that carry a far larger responsibility to the community to change their habits.

At this moment in time we have serious momentum starting the new chain as everybody in the crypto world has seen the STEEM/Justin drama and we have seen more publicity from major publications over the past month than in the whole time I have been on the chain. We have support from some of the major exchanges that owe us a favor after the mess we were landed in. We have a renewed enthusiasm from users returning to the chain when they saw the fight was happening.

These things are priceless to a start up project. You can't buy the support and publicity that we have right now.

We have a fresh start. Please don't fuck it up.

Momentum is huge with any project so why not take this wave we are on and use it to form some better habits and do better than last time.

With 50/50 Curation we can spread the rewards to the smaller users. We don't need to see the same 20 people auto-trending every day with the same content about STEEM. Why not follow a smaller curation trail that has people searching into the smaller corners of the chain and passing out small rewards to a lot more people. Help to decentralize further and strengthen our community. We are far too top heavy and always have been. For a strong community there needs to be a more stable base with a reasonable amount of stake. A $10 dollar post means so much more to a minnow than it ever will to a whale.

When I started on STEEM there was a much larger user base which has steadily drifted off through a drop in price and actions of other users but with that we have lost a lot of engagement and interest in the posts being written. Can we try to create more fun and interesting content rather that hive centric posts to engage and create discussion.

Get back to creating content for people to enjoy rather than for trying to catch votes. Hopefully communities will help us with this as we need a place for new users to go and find their space in HIVE.

What we do need from the developers and witnesses is a simpler system for people to use. Less is more in user terms. You can tinker around with the systems as much as you want but to keep a happy and active community it needs to be clear and simple to use.

• Sign-ups
• Search functions
• Analytics

Basic things that we have seen talked about for three years but still not implemented. We have had multiple reward curves, changes to infrastructure, back end developments ect.... But the main website that every person came to join was never updated or improved for their experience. Not until just before the hard fork anyway.

We had been moving on a progressive curve over the past year which made this so much worse but hopefully we can use that as a base to launch hive even further forward with this momentum. Hopefully this leads to new users and growth but it will all be worth nothing if we don't do better than in the past.

Let's do our best and see how far we can take the project.