High hopes on SMTs, Hivemind Communities - feel free to join / subscribe and use the new "Digital Marketing" community @gadrian.

This is what makes me confident too!

Hivemind Communities are not linked to SMTs, and they might be added to the main steemit.com website (+SteemPeak and eSteem) before the hardfork for SMTs. Recently activity has increased on the steemit beta interface for communities, and posting still goes on regularly, so even if it's not on the main site, steemians started to use Hivemind Communities.