Introducing Hive Communities on LeoFinance | Want to Have Your Own Threads UI?
We've been working extremely hard on this communities update. Actually, the original idea for Communities started as something called "Community Pages".
We launched the Community Pages feature on the old UI. It turned out to be somewhat of a flop. There were a lot of issues and errors. We loved the idea but we needed to build the infrastructure differently.
Rather than spend a lot of time trying to fix what we built there, we decided to wait and go back to the drawing board once the new UI was ready.
6 weeks after the new UI going live on May 1st, 2023, we now have Community Pages back online!
But in the spirit of The Everything App, things have changed... quite a lot.
The Everything App for Every Community on Hive
So in this first part, let's talk about how every community on Hive can now start using LeoFinance.
LeoFinance began as a long-form blogging website for crypto/finance content.
Our vision has evolved as we opened up new avenues. Our vision is to become The Everything App for Web3 communities.
No matter what your community talks about, you can talk about it on Leo.
But why LeoFinance? Well, perhaps the Finance part of that name will get dropped soon and LeoFinance will live as a community page under the LEO banner.
Still the same LEO, but with a whole new twist.
Our goal is to open up the platform. Bring in a whole new generation of Web3 users.
We want to build Hive into a multi-million monthly active user platform. We believe we can achieve this through our Everything App.
Threads on Communities
As it stands, this is how Community Pages look. They are based on the base-layer Hive protocol for Communities so you can find any of your favorite communities on Hive on https://leofinance.io/communities
Right now, the feature set is rather minimal. It's nearly the same as other Hive UIs.
We're working on the next round of updates along with a number of bug fixes for various parts of the Communities features.
Primitive Beta
This is an early stage beta on Communities but we're going to make rapid improvements to them.
The long-form on LeoFinance is about to take a whole new shape. New feeds, new algorithms. A new Curated page.
Communities will also get their own Threads feed.
So if you run a Hive community or are a member of one and wish they had their own UI and feed for Threads... you're about to get them.
Threads will be available to all Hive communities. Moderators will be able to show and hide threads from the UI as well as long-form content.
The Vision
The vision here is to open the LeoVerse to every existing Community on Hive.
But it goes beyond that.... the bigger idea is to start leveraging the 50 partnership deals that we have made with non-Hive Communities.
Our mission? To create them their own Hive community directly from Leofinance. They can then bring their community members over to LeoFinance and use the Communities tab to build up their community page.
Much like a subreddit. All from LeoFinance's UI.
Their community will have Threads and Long-Form content. Moderators and a whole lot more.
We believe Communities will become one of the mainstays for segmenting content and building your Web3 community.
Our aim is to make it the #1 place for any crypto project to build and grow their community.
Go ahead and give Communities a try! Keep in mind that these were just released and require a lot of attention for bug fixes.
If you spot any bugs, please report them.
If the UI loads slowly, please be patient.
We're working hard to get the full release out and all of the bugs fixed as we start to onboard our partners from outside of Hive into their own Hive Communities 🚀
About LeoFinance
LeoFinance is a blockchain-based Web3 community that builds innovative applications on the Hive, BSC, ETH and Polygon blockchains. Our flagship application: LeoFinance.io allows users and creators to engage & share micro and long-form content on the blockchain while earning cryptocurrency rewards.
Our mission is to democratize financial knowledge and access with Web3.
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I saw this moving coming for some time now and I have already shared how I feel about it. Kudos to the team and their continuous work towards expanding the community.
...let's fix those bugs as soon as possible (please) 🫠
The future is so bright.. keep up the good work !!
Everything that i see coming from the LEO team is just getting em more and more excited to be part of the community.
It's everything that i wanted hive to become for the past few years. So glad to see that vision finally being built out by the right team.
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Can you explain how will handle the ads for that communities page?
They will be able to set there own ads?
They will receive a part of ads revenue generated through there community page?
The ads will be global across the whole UI
All value from the ads will accrue to the LeoAds smart contract to buyback LEO and deploy as LEO POWER APY
The communities are all earning LEO, which means they benefit from upvoting, earning, curating, etc. in LEO
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Thanks for the clarification
This is exciting! Keep up the great work 👍
This is really great news. This will make a lot of hive users stay optimistic
The Sting Messaging protocol is open source and is pretty easy to install widget... so that should be an easy win for Leo. It's safe, uses hive keys for encryption and has a decentralized foundation including decentralized access by websites who want to integrate it. Part of "everything app" is having a chat/discord type system. Easy win for you.
Having a decentralized community of their own is important to every cryptocurrency project. With everything going on with Reddit, we have an excellent time to push the Communities feature outside of HIVE and expand our paws across Web 3.
dev is deving!
This is such a good update. I would love the thread page for communities, a way to closely connect with all the community instead of only getting to interact with people a post at a time!
This new feature has great potential to do what you desire; increase MAUs.
I think your Leoinfra strategy of sticking with whats familiar to make the transition from Twitter to Threads easy is great..
I think a tutorial and some mentorship would be helpful.
I think the Leo account for teaching and the material on the webpage could probably use some updating, but those are great starter resources, but they may cause confusion due to significant changes in the time since they were published..