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Ecency Mobile 3.5.9: Email Digests, Followed Hashtags and Requests That Finish
Version 3.5.9 of the Ecency mobile app is on the App Store and Google Play. It lands about three weeks after 3.5.8, so it is a smaller release, with three things worth opening the app for plus one ...
Curation at Ecency: how it works and what we are changing
Curation has been the quiet part of Ecency for years. It runs every day, it touches thousands of people and almost none of the rules were written down anywhere. That was our mistake. So here is the...
Will Anyone Find This in a Search? SEO for Hive Creators
Most of the traffic a good blog post gets over its life does not come from the day you publish it. It comes months later, from people typing a question into a search engine and finding your answer....
Witnesses: Who Runs Hive and Why You Get a Say
Every post you publish on Hive gets written into a block and every block is produced by a server somebody volunteered to run. Those somebodies are called witnesses and here is the part most people ...
The AI Writing Assistant: A Tool, Not a Ghostwriter
Every editor on the internet now has an AI button and most of them make the same pitch: you do nothing and the machine writes the post. Ecency's AI writing assistant makes the opposite bet. It will...
Titles, Covers and First Lines: How Readers Decide to Click
You can write the best post in your community and still lose most of your readers before they read a word. In a feed, people are not deciding whether your post is good. They cannot know that yet. T...
Introducing Creator Newsletters: Your Readers Can Now Get Your Posts by Email
Excited to introduce Creator Newsletters on Ecency and self-hosted instances. Email digests are live on Ecency. Anyone can subscribe to a creator, a community or Ecency itself and get new posts del...
Inside Your Hive Wallet: Every Balance and Button, Explained
Every Hive account ships with a real crypto wallet. Not a widget bolted onto a blog, an actual wallet with balances, transfers, savings, and staking, live from the day your account exists. On Ecenc...
Ecency Mobile 3.5.8: Community Moderation, Dictation and a Wallet You Can Read
Version 3.5.8 of the Ecency mobile app is out for iOS and Android. It is the first release since 3.5.7 in early July and it is a big one, so instead of listing every change, here is what actually s...
Your Blog, Your Server: Self-Hosted Blogs v1.0.0
The blog side of Ecency 4.4.1 got big enough to need its own post. The short version: there are now three answers to the question "where does my blog run". One of them costs nothing and does not in...
Ecency 4.4.1: Shorts, Post Templates, Dictation and a Faster surfing
Ecency web 4.4.1 is live on ecency.com. This one took a while. There are quite a lot of changes in the release, including some things we've been working on for a few months, so I'll try to cover th...
Comments Are the Most Underrated Growth Tool on Hive
New creators often put all their effort into publishing posts and barely think about comments. I think that is backwards. Especially on Hive. When you are starting out, you probably don't have much...
Your Profile Is a Landing Page: The Ten-Minute Setup Checklist
Every comment you leave, every vote you cast, every wave you post turns your username into a link. People click it. What they find in the next three seconds decides whether you gain a follower or a...
Insights on Ecency: See What Actually Gets Read and Study What Works
Votes and rewards tell you what people were willing to reward. They do not tell you what people actually read. A post can earn well and still be skimmed or earn little and hold every reader to the ...
Reputation on Hive: What That Number Really Means
Next to every username on Ecency sits a small number. Fresh accounts show 25, regulars drift into the 60s, 70s and a few veterans crack 80. That number is the Hive reputation score and it may be th...