I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #312 - Hive's Onboarding Challenges - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, June 4, 2023
I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in a 16-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i. I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Y'all know how much I love and believe in Hive. I'm not just a fanboy, though, as when I see weaknesses in Hive I'll point those out too. Aside from not being decentralized (or even better, distributed) completely yet, Hive's greatest weakness is how incredibly challenging the onboarding process is.
The Hive Blockchain Ecosystem is so huge and complex, with so much going on, that simple, clear, coherent, and streamlined onboarding steps are absolutely essential. See, I'm one of the weirdos that loves how Hive is, and is happy to figure things out for himself. Sadly that is not the norm. A great many people need quite a bit more instruction and hand-holding through the various Hive hoops through which we all must jump.
Ive been compiling and organizing a good deal of useful information for the purpose of making the onboarding process easier. It's still a work in progress, and is far from perfect. I've shared different iterations of it with some new people, in hopes of helping them out a bit with the inherent learning curve to Hive.
Today was a lovely and sunny Sunday here in the East Hawai'i jungles, the majority of which I dedicated to Hive catch-up and tasks, which I did from early morning until about 4PM. While I didn't actually get any land work done today, I was rather occupied for a fair while onboarding a fellow that lives here at GaiaYoga Gardens, Sperry (@nysqually), onto Hive. The process took far longer than necessary because at fist I tried to create an account for him with Ecency, something I've done easily multiple times in the part. This time, however, we kept getting the error message that our IP rating was low...😂 After many tries in different ways, I gave up on Ecency and successfully created an account for him via D.Buzz.
I helped him set up Hive Keychain on his Mac computer and his Android phone. I still have to show him how to secure his keys well. I also shared all the useful onboarding information that I've been collecting. I'll help him out with it over the next several days.
After getting Sperry started on Hive, I worked on Ano's neck again for a short while, as it's still painful for him. After I finshed working on Ano, I made food as quickly as I could, then returned to the Flow House post haste, as I had a lot of work to do on Hive. I started much later than usual on it, but I finally finshed and published My 53rd Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: Both Goals Surpassed, and a Steady Week of Growth! post, and then immediately began working on this post.
Its now past 2:30AM, and I very much need to sleep, so off to bed I shall go! I deeply appreciate you all! Until tomorrow! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.
Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚
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It makes me happy seeing nature photos. The bamboos are so beautiful. My gramma's backyard have bamboos planted there too and we eat bamboo shoots. The banana leaves are lovely as well. I hope you're getting a good sleep. @tydynrain. I am also going to bed now because it's 10:40pm here. Goodnight.
Yay! I love that! Yes there are many different bamboo species and varieties here, bananas too, and so much beauty everywhere! That's really wonderful to hear! I love bamboo shoots, too! Thank you so much @naniplayergamer! I sometimes don't get the best sleep, but I always make up for it! Yay for sleep! I hope that you sleep wonderfully well! G'Night! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Wow that's amazing @tydynrain. Nature is so amazing.
You're welcome and thank you again 😍
It's dinner time here now so I'm gonna eat soon 😁
Oh my goodness yes, I love nature so much! Absolutely, you're most welcome! I hope that your dinner and evening were lovely! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
I agree. Sometimes making/getting an account is easy, but then there's all the other things we need to know. I got a link from someone on twitch, which led me to peakd I think, and then I had my account. Took me a while to realise that giving 100% upvotes to everything nice earned me zilch, which was kind of contrary to what the guy had said... Months later I figured out that he earned 5% on all my posts, and how to remove that. So a place where all that info and more is presented in easily understood and digestible chunks is definitely needed! I learned the other day that there is a Hive wiki. Though it's seems to be dead since a few years... so something else would be nice! I'm not knowledgable enough to write articles for it (yet) but if you get something going I'd be happy to help with proof-reading, and of course complaining when something isn't written clearly enough for non-english speakers like me! :)
For storing the keys and other passwords, I'd recommend Buttercup. Works great on my Mac and iPad, it's opensource, regularly updated, available for Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android, and you can save the encrypted file(s) on your computer or in the cloud. I have one file with passwords and stuff I need both on the computer and iPad stored online, and a separate file for things I need on the computer only stored locally on my HDD.
!LUV that you are getting more Mac people onboard - people using all kinds of OS's are needed to ensure devs write stuff that works for everything!
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Yep, indeed, getting a Hive account is often, though not always, the easiest part! Oh, wow, you didn't know that he was an automatic beneficiary on all your posts? I think I created my account in a similar way via PeakD, and there were a few auto beneficiaries, those that supported creating the account, that I left until I reached 50 reputation, then I removed them.
Yes, clear, succinct, coherent, easily-digestible chunks is the way to go! So there was a Hive wiki! It's sad that it went inactive. If I spearhead something, you'll be the first to know!
Thank you for the key-storage recommendation! To be able to onboard people well, we need a simple and safe way for them to store their keys! I'll check it out!
Thank you @treefrognada! Oh yes, I know my way around most operating systems, and I love opening people's worlds to something truly useful and beneficial! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
It feels like ages since I created my own Hive account, and embarrasing as it is, I have forgotten how I did it, except I clicked a referral link someone gave me...! But since you helped your friend just the other day, maybe you can give me a short walkthrough? I'm trying to get the hubby to create one so he can buy Hive with his CC and send me, since mine won't work - I've deliberately NOT paid for the option to use it online and use PayPal instead. Sure, fees are not nice percentagewise, but still a lot less than the yearly CC fee would be for the little I buy online.
Step one - install Buttercup for password storage ✅
Step two - create new entry in BC with fields for all the keys ✅
But then? Install HiveKeychain first? Or going to ecency/peakd/somewhere else and creating the account? Is one or the other the better place, as in easier to figure out how to get the passwords/keys? Especially if like my hubby you often click the conitinue button without reading all the text first 😬
I could probably figure it out by trial and error while he is at work and not using his PC, but the idea is that he should do it himself, or he'll never be able to use it. And I get a headache from Windows :P
Please? 💜
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I understand, and all good! I'd be happy to help!
To create an account I usually use Ecency, however it's given me problems lately, so this last time I used D.Buzz. Below are the referral links with your name already added. You'll receive the email from Ecency with the master key, so you can see what the other keys are via Hive Keychain or PeakD once the account is added. D.Buzz shows the keys after account creation, which you can copy or save. As soon as you have the keys, they can be added to Buttercup.
Once the account is created and the keys are protected, just add it to Hive Keychain, and you're good to go! Is that all clear and understandable? 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
https://ecency.com/signup?referral=treefrognada
https://join.d.buzz/@treefrognada
Yes, clear enough, thanks!
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Marvelous! You're very welcome, absolutely! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Always a pleasure looking at your Nature photos , well done !LOLZ 🙃
That's so beautiful to hear @fun.farms! I'm very grateful for that! Yay! Thank you so much! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Thank you so much again! It's appreciated! Onward and upward, together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙