RE: Is it my Birthday?
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I was reasonably good at consistent, my organisational skills right now are pretty bad and they were several orders of magnitude worse before
What improved them - mine still suck :D
All your points are valid in terms of retention, and there are many more. This one is interesting for the artist community.
in a couple of specific cases they were upset that it seems that in order to get anywhere you have to be "endorsed" by a larger account before people start noticing you otherwise you're practically invisible
This is how it was back in the day, as artists had "whale" patrons who paid and promoted them in their whale circles. It was necessary to get patronage to survive, hence so many starving artists. I think it is valid on Hive because it is more direct than the platforms driven through AI and algorithms. But, I also think that many artists don't earn still, but they get eyes on their work. That is needed here.
Speaking purely from a marketing perspective, "you're stupid if you don't".
Yes and no. If entering an already saturated market with something similar to the flood, what is the point?
I have no idea about implementation of an OOTB package, but it can't be that hard, can it? ;D
A combination of the pseudorganiser and a calendar. I'd been using a schedule with alarms and all on my Nextcloud instance for as long as I've had the calendar on Nextcloud but I did the usual rookie mistake of alarms for everything so I got amazing at ignoring them. I've since pared it back to alerts I actually need (appointments and work mostly) and everything else the calendar is just on one of my screens or easy enough to get to.
The pseudorganiser is a digital variation of a bullet journal built in Obsidian. So far it's been the only type of planner/organiser/thing that's been effective (to some value of effective) probably because I made it so I guess that's what you have to do if you can't find a pre-made system that cooperates with your brain (or that your brain will cooperate with, I haven't quite worked out how that works yet).
My brain is just a giant glitch sometimes though so despite all that there are still several occasions where it will just death latch onto literally anything other than what I'm supposed to be doing.
It's not really too different now and while I don't think anyone would ever not be grateful for a whale patron I think some people were hoping that it would be different somehow (I'm not sure how given that even when you take away the crypto aspect you're still going to get likes/upvotes/comments/favs/whatever if someone happened to like what they saw enough to decide to stop scrolling long enough to interact).
I am reminded of this entitled narcy brat on dA who had a tantrum about how favs were worthless and people should be leaving comments instead of just faving and someone commented that they should be grateful that anyone liked their "ugly art" enough to fav it at all
Purely numbers. With so many people you have a higher chance of finding your people and getting noticed. Nobody wants to acknowledge the fact that the opposite is also true (at least for the getting noticed part). Pretty much the same reason why "everyone" is on X and Instagram and Youtube and whatever instead of here and Mastodon and Diaspora and whatever.
After you've recovered from me throwing something at you from across the globe, please feel free to jump in and help, the open source world can always use more contributors XD
hope you know how to audit if you're vibe coding, that seems to annoy maintainers a lot :D
Having said that I reckon you'd be great at documentation (contributors aren't just coders).