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Since we've gone over the 300k max goal together, it looks like the structure has changed and now there are Investor perks tied to amounts. Do we still get the incentives for being early? Can we adjust our investment at this time to get additional perks or will we \"lose our place in line\"?","author_name":"Alex S.","votes":2,"created_at":"2022-11-22T20:25:17Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-226516","answers":[]},{"id":284988,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:284988","question":"I’m curious if there are any updates on the product? As an investor, I’d love to hear more about any new features, bug fixes, or improvements.","author_name":"Daniel Skrok ","votes":1,"created_at":"2024-06-10T11:08:32Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-284988","answers":[]},{"id":262634,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:262634","question":"Hey, CEO Kassandra Pop of Hive In the future, will it support protocols as well, such as ActivityPub(Fediverse), Nostr, AT Protocol, Matrix, XMPP, Livepeer, etc.? And will it support audio file formats .mp3 .wav .m4a .aac .dts .wma .flac .alac .aiff .dsd .mqa .ogg too? Will it support resolutions of 4K, 8K, HDR for both video and images? Will it support image file formats such as JPEG XL, JPEG XR, JPEG XS, JPEG XT, PNG, AVIF, HEIF, WebP? Hopefully you'll listen to some feedback from general users.","author_name":"Ikuno Towatari","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-09-18T09:35:16Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-262634","answers":[]},{"id":226449,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:226449","question":"It would be fantastic to have a desktop browser version of this app down the line, are there any plans to make this happen?","author_name":"Sindre Säfvenbom","votes":1,"created_at":"2022-11-22T09:37:33Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-226449","answers":[]},{"id":226419,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:226419","question":"Hi. On your overview you mentioned a creator economy, will that be the main and only source of revenue for Hive social? If not what are your other plans to increase your company revenue? Advertisers, paid features for users? And as mentioned by others here do you have plans to expand access with desktop or web versions? Thank you!","author_name":"Davison Carvalho","votes":1,"created_at":"2022-11-22T05:38:37Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-226419","answers":[]},{"id":255397,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:255397","question":"There have been numerous complaints by app reviewers claiming that the app is good but experiences excessive loading times and appears buggy. Do you feel confident that there is progress and what is your projected plan including allocation of budget and timeframe to address this?","author_name":"Cody Heisinger","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-07-23T19:42:38Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-255397","answers":[{"id":255406,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:255406","answer":"The Android version seems to experience more lag compared to iPhone, but the issue overall should be resolved once we migrate data and offload onto other databases. Hive’s growth is too heavy for Firestore, so this may take 2-3 months to complete (adding cushion time for any complications). The budget is not set yet as we need to evaluate not just the hours but onboarding an additional dev to help.","author_name":"Kassandra Pop","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-07-23T22:12:44Z"}]},{"id":226450,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:226450","question":"I just signed up for Hive Social and I must say the interface is wonderful and user-friendly. Besides refining your programme for improvements, what are you expansion plans for a more global outreach? What kind of returns can investors expect and will future prospects get an opportunity to do so once you've hit your fundraising goal?","author_name":"Heather Chua","votes":0,"created_at":"2022-11-22T10:24:01Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/hive.social.inc#question-226450","answers":[]}],"faq":[{"question":"There have been numerous complaints by app reviewers claiming that the app is good but experiences excessive loading times and appears buggy. Do you feel confident that there is progress and what is your projected plan including allocation of budget and timeframe to address this?","answer":"The Android version seems to experience more lag compared to iPhone, but the issue overall should be resolved once we migrate data and offload onto other databases. Hive’s growth is too heavy for Firestore, so this may take 2-3 months to complete (adding cushion time for any complications). 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