HIVE fights boredom

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While Web2 platforms struggle with how little they have to offer—since it’s all just more of the same—Web3—specifically HIVE—brings us something new practically every day. Either because these features have been around for a while but we’re only noticing them now, or because new applications are popping up like mushrooms in the fall.

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If I had to describe HIVE in a single word, I wouldn’t hesitate: diversity.

You won’t die of boredom here. Want to write something substantial? There are various front-ends and communities available. From knitting to agriculture, through sports and art, there are communities for every field and interest.

Want to write something lighter? There are various microblogging platforms available to share a thought, a joke, a meme, a song, a photo—whatever you want. Don’t want to write, just want to browse? There are hundreds and hundreds of posts published daily. Take the opportunity to curate, vote for what you like. Build your portfolio.

Want to play games? There’s no shortage of them. Want to trade? Head to Hive-Engine or Tribaldex. Buy, sell, trade, have fun.

Sometimes I like to be on HIVE without posting, without curating, without interacting—nothing. Just looking around and exploring tools and apps that already exist or are being built.

Over the past few days, I’ve been drawn to several enthusiastic users who are raving about #hSnaps. I already knew they existed, but I’ve only recently given them the attention they deserve.

Any adjective used to describe @sagarkothari88’s apps will always fall short of the value he provides us.

Of the various tools available, I’ve only managed to focus on two so far: #hSnaps and #hStats.

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hSnaps

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I’d like to highlight the functional, minimalist interface, which allows you to view four microblogging feeds simultaneously: Snaps, Waves, Threads, and Moments. This well-organized view is very useful for curating content. You can keep track of all the microblogging feeds without leaving the same screen. The colors and design are identical to PeakD, which makes the experience feel familiar.

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Another thing I really liked is that posts are immediately directed to the microblogging platform of your choice, without having to constantly switch between them. It’s the ideal spot for my strategy, which also emphasizes diversity. I like all of them, so my goal is to distribute unique content across each one.

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On Snaps (Peakd), I share music, science and technology, photos, and some catchphrases. On Waves (Ecency), only photos with a predominance of the color blue. On Threads (INLEO), I posted when I became fascinated—and profited—last summer with the trio of INLEO tokens: #SURGE #LEO #LSTR.

On #hSnaps, I only recently made my first post, but I want to continue this unique way of sharing photos, here displayed individually in frames. I haven’t posted on Moments (Liketu) yet, but maybe something will come up soon.
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hStats

There are many analytics tools available on HIVE, some more complex and sophisticated than others. But #hStats presents the essentials in a simple, accessible, and user-friendly way.

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We can check all our blockchain activity; what interested me most was “Curation Rewards.” All our curation activities cover the last seven days—that is, the content currently in the payment phase—organized in chronological order. It’s like a photo’s EXIF data. Here’s what matters to me: date, voting time after publication, vote value, reward value, and, crucially, the voting efficiency for each post.

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The cherry on top of this suite of tools, this laboratory of useful applications—still to be fully explored—is undoubtedly the financial reporting.

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A fine example of transparency and rigor. The blockchain is an open ledger; all transactions are recorded and can be viewed, but aggregating all the information and making it available in this way is exemplary conduct that should be followed by everyone supported by DHF. Thank you @sagarkothari88.
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Thank you so much!
That's acknowledgement & appreciation I've been looking for.

It keeps me going.
Please do try #hReplier (with which I'm replying this message)
Also try #hCurators, you can use my voting power to upvote others & engage with them - it's really cool idea.
My hive power is yours.

Please please try those & share me your feedback.
I'm working on even more ideas about which you can find it on my landing page - https://sagarkothari88.one

I'll be switching everything to hivesuite.app domain soon.

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You're welcome.

Fantastic. I'll definitely explore it. There's a lot to take in and experience.

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Thank you so much @cryptoreforma

You have so far tried #hSnaps #hReplier

Have you tried #hCurators #hStats #hPolls?
Try those as well.

Bring more people
Tell them to use these apps
Please please please

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I thought #hCurators was still in development. Oops, but it’s already up and running. I’m going to check it out. At first glance, it looks really useful for anyone who enjoys curating.
Thanks

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It's completely great #hSnaps microblogging in Hive is fun thanks to @sagarkothari88 I also recommend #hReplier excellent app I'm answering you from hReplier and I can assure you that it's wonderful

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I’m also replying here😉

It’s easier to reply via #hReplier—all the unanswered comments are there. I won’t miss a single one. Sometimes, even with notifications, comments get overlooked on the front-end, and I don’t like leaving people without a reply.

You know what?
I feel like a kid getting excited about new toys.😄🤣😂

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Hey friend, welcome to #hSnaps #hReplier and I invite you to be a curator in #hCurator all these apps are developed by @sagarkothari88 and being part of them is great. Join

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Thanks a lot, friend. You're right—these tools are a lot of fun. It's a different way to experience HIVE.

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And the more you look the more things you will find. Unfortunately finding them twice can be an issue :) I remember there was a Discord like app created for Hive. Just for fun I created a little storage locker app so you could store small files onto HIVE kind of like a tiny hiding spot for things. Plus a .jpg resizer so you could put small images onto Hive.

It can do so much, but navigating it.... hahahaha.... can be a challenge :)

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Even if there are several identical ones, that’s okay. It just gives you more options to choose from. I always use the analogy of photography—no two photos are exactly alike. The same goes for tools. There’s always one thing or another that’s different and can be useful for each strategy.

Hmm, I’m curious about your apps. The ones for saving, storing, and publishing make sense. Resizing photos—even more so. A while back, I wrote a post on the subject.

Feel free to share them if they’re still active.

Thank you very much for your comment.

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I never really advertised the apps and they certainly aren't really ready for prime time. However if you are curious you can check it out here:

https://gldragons.netlify.app/apps

However, I should say that when I said saving photo's and resizing them I should state that I wasn't thinking about resizing for articles.

I was actually thinking to make them tiny and lossy so they could be stored directly on the blockchain. Using chacha20 encryption so that files could be uploaded onto the chain and instead of being stored on storage by a node and link they are actually encrypted JSON files.

And I agree, no two tools are identical and sometimes one that looks inferior can be better for a specific use case :)

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I found Hive Storage Locker and ChaCha20 File Encryption interesting, with potential uses for storage.

I tried to access the Hive Username Creator but got an error.
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Now, I was blown away by Dragan Rampage. Look, I’m not a fan of games, but I had a blast. It kept crashing, of course. I’m terrible at games. All I ever see is “Game Over.”☹️

How about holding a tournament on #hSnaps for 7 days? Players post a screenshot with their results. After 7 days, prizes for the top 3 results. I’ll put up 20 HIVE.

Do you accept the challenge?

Oh, I won’t be playing. I’ll be the referee. I don’t want to end up last in the rankings 🥲
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Thanks for looking :)

Appreciate that. Honestly though these are nowhere near finished.

The ChaCha20 encryption was never really designed to be standalone.

The idea was to take small files (like airplane boarding pass QR codes, or low resolution JPGs) and encrypt them. Then upload them directly to the blockchain so they would be irrevocably stored. Then use an app so it could be decoded easily. They were actually just smaller pieces to a larger, unfinished, app. :)

As for the Hive Username Creator...

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I checked it out on my PC using the Brave Browser for my username (which doesn't have any creation tokens)

Then tried again with the Great Little Dragons curation account (which does have name creation tokens)

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Sorry it didn't work for you.

As for the Dragon Rampage....

That was an early version. I think there were two versions after that. It added multiple enemy dragons to increase difficulty, made sure you never spawned on a mountain to crash, and added music. It also added a finish line. Also it was intended to be an android app which would link to a backend on HIVE to reward winners with GLD tokens (The Great Little Dragons token).

I'd be pretty embarassed if anyone tried out this very alpha version.

However, if you want to setup a tournament and run it? Go for it but don't put up your own Hive (Unless you really want to). I would happily throw in 120 GLD tokens. 6 GLD is roughly equal to 1 HIVE (it's pegged to HBD at 100:1 and pays out weekly dividends). I have a bot making sure there is liquidity on hive-engine and a liquidity pool on tribaldex.

and in case you are curious.

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The goal is to survive 60 seconds. My original plan was to allow people to play the game as an app for free. Survive 60 seconds and win. Watch an AD and put your name on the leaderboard. The leaderboard would be posted on HIVE and top players would get a weekly prize. AD revenue to buy HIVE (EDSI) and the dividends I get weekly would be the prize payout.

Unfortunately with the huge drop in HIVE price and the HUGE pain in the butt for getting apps with admob approved... it got shelved.

Just so you know why you are the first person to ever actually see any of those apps :)

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I bought some GLD tokens, but the error persisted. There seems to be an issue connecting to the wallet to validate the tokens. As you said, the app needs maintenance. No problem.

Encrypting official and personal documents is essential for anyone who works in networking.

For photography, when encryption is combined with steganography, it’s the future. It creates an invisible watermark that hides the copyright data within the pixels. In the age of AI, this will be the most secure way to protect copyright. If you ever want to explore this further, I can help you reach out to the photography community.

Web2 urgently needs this; Web3, based on a blockchain, offers greater protection. But it may not be the solution given the various laws in effect in each country—laws vary by country—and users must be in a cryptocurrency environment to access the blockchain. And this can be a barrier for a wide variety of reasons—among them, anonymity.

There are a few such tools available on Android (Steganography, NoClue, “Photo Vault - Hide Photo and D”). And Python tools have the “Stegano” library, used to hide messages in images. But it’s a field that’s still largely unexplored.

About Dragon Rampage...

Embracing imperfections is a current trend. Social media shows us this. This would serve merely as a pastime, adding a bit more dynamism to #hSnaps. Especially since the game is simple and has a time limit.

But I don't want you to feel embarrassed either :) Think it over and let me know. I'll put together some quick guidelines for participating and help you with that.

Have a great week.

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Hmm.... GLD tokens aren't used for making usernames. Those tokens can be created using Resource Credits. If you have 8000HP (or so...it varies) you can use the Hive Keychain to claim the tokens. My app just lets you use those tokens to create the username. However, in your case I'm pretty sure it is a connection issue.

I sent you 150 GLD which should be worth roughly 25 HIVE. If you think anyone is interested in playing for some coins then have fun and let people enjoy winning some coins :D

At this moment app development is on hold while I work on finding other ways of funding the community. I'm looking to make a GLD:swap.LTC liquidity pool to give an easier offramp for people to turn their GLD into FIAT. I'm working on a GLD to HIVE exchange so people can easily get full peg value for their coins rather than relying on hive-engine or tribaldex.

Dragon Rampage is pretty much abandoned....but I enjoyed working on it as a project. I wish I could locate the more advanced version but I think I backed it up on a drive I can't find anymore. Sorry :( ... no music. no choosing your air/fire/water dragon. No finish line.... and no automatic database seeing who had the most glitter collected during the day :)

... But if anyone can have fun with it "as is" with absolutely no guarantees it won't flake out ... well, have fun and I'm curious what people think.

Side benefit...
.... the html file works with or without internet if you are really desperate for something when the net goes down :)

Thanks for your support

.... and about the photography and storage side of things.... I was never actually thinking about copyright and ownership. The watermark is cool for sure but mostly I was thinking how cool it would be if HIVE could be used as a type of notepad where I wouldn't lost the place I put the stuff :)

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Thank you so much for the feedback.

I’m definitely going to move forward with the game, embracing imperfection.

This week I’ll draft the rules and send them to you via Discord so we can fine-tune the mechanics.

Warm regards

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I'm new to Hive and still learning, but Hsnaps and Hreplier seem wonderful to me.

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