In total confusion here on just about everything. There seems to be so much going on and not much happening. The Hive server on discord has more chat about Steem than anything else. Troubles logging in or performing tasks on site are continuous. Disclosure of what is going on from the slack is limited. Plenty of time to lark about in the chat from various people within the slack (not all) and very little time is arranged to give information out. There is a distance felt (at least from me and a few others I have spoken to) from the general user of the platform and those who hold governance. Which i might add without those general user's, there is a lot less viability for the platform.

The general user are the one who provide most of the content.

For the so much going on. I can see there needs to be a lot of work done for various reasons and various outcomes.

I see the next 10 - 11 weeks as a preparation period for Hive to become workable. My personal opinion is now is not a god time to be bringing new members to the platform.

1. Too many things do not work on a daily basis. Something seems to always need to be looked at and corrected. With logging in, uploading images, posting. The various methods available to log in not working regularly.

2. Disclosure of the directions being taken for the future of the chain are non existent for the best part. There is no format for disclosure of these things except through Hive.io. Discussion seems to be avoided. When it does happen in the general chat of Hive server. It is not done with any professionalism. More to a manner accept what I say and do not question what is said.

3. Governance. What changes are being looked at for this. For the voting system that elect those to governance, why is this topic avoided? Control over governance was the main reason for the fork, yet this topic is avoided and I can only surmise this is governance not wanting to lose control over those positions.
   To this I will add, one proposed system to alter the voting system of providing more votes to create an over lap. This is doomed to centralise the governance. Big stake does not vote to a wide range of witness and limits its vote to few to maintain control over governance, extra vote will not change that. If high stakes used all votes there would be a more equal witness vote now.

4. On-boarding new member to the platform now would be disastrous. With all the Steem drama currently about Steem and Justin Sun constantly being brought up in chats. That drama needs to stop and people need to move on and focus on more positive things. Throwing out negativity about Steem says nothing positive about Hive. Only shows a butt hurt mentality and blame of things on someone else.

5. There seems to be a reliance on just one API. If something is not working the solution seems to be to change the API to anyx. Because that seems to work with most things. We need most things if not all things to be working no matter what API is being used.