By pharesim on Skatehive
Hive has developed to be many things, but the heart of it still is the social media platform. It has a very strong core userbase, but failed to attract and retain new users consistently. My experience with onboarding new people has been pretty much the same every time. After explaining the basics and the not so basics, they sat in front of "trending" and didn't know what to do. They clicked through a couple of posts, but nothing caught them, and that was the end of their experience. It has been a few years since I last tried to get a project running to develop an algorithm to filter content by interests. There was a lot of good feedback and a little bit of progress, but in the end we lacked the manpower to categorize thousands of posts and constantly tweak an algorithm. Thanks to Claude and my trusty Alienware laptop, that manpower issue has gone away! Enter HoneyComb, the new way to explore Hive. Powered by the new public CombFlow API, HoneyComb allows filtering posts by language, cat