Welcome back :)

> What's the point in all those interfaces?

If you like hive.blog stick with it.  Meanwhile I actually loathe condenser (the thing steemit and hive.blog run on, sorry quochuy and co it is a metric boatload better than it was x_x) and am really glad that peakd exists because the only thing I hate about peakd is the fact that it's closed source.  And anyone who doesn't like either of those things can figure out how to make their own how they like.

The actual hive part of hive seems to be more trying to be a base layer for stuff to be built on top of rather than a thing itself.

> Does the Hive community expect it is going to grow to mass public adoption and to scale when Hive's internal platforms are a tangled, convoluted, competing mess?

Somewhat relating to above, because we have communities now each community can build out specialised front ends catering to their own community so if you didn't like the all and sundry stuff that comes with the catchalls (what peakd and hive.blog are) and just wanted the leo finance stuff or the natural medicine stuff or the art stuff then you could just hit that front end instead.  Not everyone cares about everything, and it would be a lot better to onboard people for specific interests rather than trying to get them interested in some stupid crypto thing.

With the branding and marketing stuff, seems there's some people working on that, but I don't really keep track of any of that side of things.

Something really does need to be simpler though.  I've tried onboarding a couple of people and the tech savvy ones made comments about the keys and the non-tech-savvy ones just found everything too hard (which is not really surprising because I've had some Facebook crowd claim a forum was too hard so this is going to be even more insane).

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