Posts from @storicious

Topcomment weekly curation report (week 43)

topcomment — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:03:09 GMT

News

It's almost two years ago that I started the @topcomment curation service. It's cool to see how much we it has grown over the time. The graph from @hivepulse.app shows a nice and steady growth.
At the end of 2025 we lost one large delegator, but soon others picked it up.
Also the team has grown to 8 curators now that share the task of finding and rewarding quality comments.

It's also cool to see people following our voting trail. You can configure your autovotes in PeakD here: https://peakd.com/me/autovote

We also appreciate adding the @topcomment account to your autovote accounts. Just follow the instructions below.

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And/or you can delegate some stake to @topcomment
50HP - 100HP - 250HP - 500HP - 750HP - 1000HP - 1500HP

We will continue to use our stake to rewards quality engagement on Hive!

Keep in engaging!

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What is Topcomment?

The Topcomment curation service rewards meaningful and engaging comments on the Hive platform. It is manually curated by @topcomment to prevent abuse.
Comments that show effort, substantively engage with the content are eligible for upvotes. The initiative relies on nominations, where users can mention @topcomment to suggest quality comments.

Read all about it in the following blog:
Click here!

Read more about the service and how you can support this project below the report!

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Weekly comments

Author	Comment	Timestamp
@ruffatotmeee	link	Oct 16 2026 12:37AM
@thebighigg	link	Oct 16 2026 12:39AM
@avdesing	link	Oct 16 2026 12:40AM
@tonyes	link	Oct 16 2026 05:58AM
@skiptvads	link	Oct 16 2026 06:04AM
@josemalavem	link	Oct 16 2026 06:18AM
@jaylasola	link	Oct 16 2026 11:22AM
@palomap3	link	Oct 16 2026 11:26AM
@elizabethbit	link	Oct 17 2026 07:13AM
@jza	link	Oct 17 2026 07:19AM
@ph1102	link	Oct 17 2026 07:23AM
@themagus	link	Oct 17 2026 10:32AM
@rishehri	link	Oct 17 2026 10:36AM
@stefano.massari	link	Oct 17 2026 10:38AM
@kerrislravenhill	link	Oct 17 2026 10:41AM
@ds-tech	link	Oct 17 2026 10:43AM
@litguru	link	Oct 17 2026 03:22PM
@ryivhnn	link	Oct 17 2026 03:33PM
@jlufer	link	Oct 17 2026 03:38PM
@fugazz	link	Oct 17 2026 04:40PM
@nathen007	link	Oct 18 2026 06:45AM
@hourglassgoddess	link	Oct 18 2026 06:52AM
@promete0sz	link	Oct 18 2026 07:46AM
@tonyes	link	Oct 18 2026

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The Old; The New (SMAsH)

storicious — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:13:30 GMT

Hello to the folks of this chaotically beautiful world!

I recently noticed how the old and new shadows tell different stories. Ah trying to be philosophical, because I guess, it is a common fact. Anyways not letting the notice go unposted (not even a word). So, i was saying that old one carries the weight of everything that once stood in the light. And we humans usually name it: the experience.

The new one stretches out, just trying to explore something new. They have the urge to make ordinary things extraordinary. Because the first time experience is really worth it.

Well, pardon me! I thought, after a short nap, that my mind will be wild again. But this aching throat is killing me.

So, I will leave these shadows to do the talking. My throat has officially withdrawn from this intellectual gathering.

By the way: shadow is metaphorical here.

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Peace 🕊

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This is my entry for Shadow Hunter Contest. Do check out the rules.

It's Me, Fairy Hive! Now on My New Account, Farah Hive ❤️

farahhive — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:15:42 GMT

It's Me, Fairy Hive

Hello friends How are you all? I hope you are all doing well. I am also fine. As you all may already know my old Hive account which was named Fairy Hive has been hacked. Because of this I have created a new account. This is my new account Farah Hive. The purpose of making this post is to let you all know about my new account.

How It Happened

It was Tuesday when I received a notification saying that my master key had been changed. When I woke up and checked I could still access my account and even make posts but I could not withdraw my funds. As you can see in the screenshots I shared with you someone had changed my master key.

Now I am not sure whether someone hacked my account or if it was some kind of glitch in InLeo. I have no idea about it. That is why I decided to create a new account and start again.

My Experience With a Scam Account

Guys I tried very hard to recover my account but I did not receive any response from InLeo either. I also almost became a victim of a scam. I received a friend request on Discord from an account named Leo Support. It also had a star on it so I thought it was an official account.

I talked to them and at first everything seemed fine. But later they started asking me for my master password. That made me suspicious. When I checked with some other people I found out that it was a scam. When I told themYou are a scam they simply replied Okay, then. Even after I found out it was a scam they kept calling me again and again and asking me to share my master password. I blocked and reported them.

Starting a new account

It is really difficult when your old account is growing so well and has already grown a lot but suddenly your account gets hacked somehow and you have to start everything from the beginning. So I will need all of your support on this new journey so that I can bring more amazing content for you all again. I also found out that this has not happened only to me but to hundreds of other accounts as well.

I don't know how long it will take to recover my old account or whether I will even be able to recover it. That is why I created this new account.

Thank You for Your Support

I want to thank everyone who supported me on my Fairy Hive account. I received so much love and support in a short time and I am truly thankful to all of you. When this incident happened my heart was broken because I had worked so hard and it felt like all my hard work had gone to waste. But I still have hope that I can build my reputation again and connect with the people who support me.

Please Support My New Account

So if you are interested in my content please follow my new account. If I get my old account back in the future I will definitely inform you all.

That is all for today guys I hope you will continue supporting me just as you supported me on my Fairy Hive account. Please give the same love and support to my new Farah Hive account. Thank you so much everyone Bye bye! ❤️

Translated from Urdu to English with the help of Chatgpt.

Shadow Hunters SMASh Contest- Round 448//Just Shadowphotos

goga22 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:53:30 GMT

Good morning dear everyone in the Shadow Hunters Community 🙌📸

And so it's time for a new contest, time for new shadows. And for this contest I've prepared a few photos from different periods of my photography. There are three photos of shadows in tunnels, one photo of my shadow, and the cover image—naturally, a photograph I took when I placed my grandson in front of a window where shadows were filtering in through the blinds.

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So, this is my entry for this SMASh contest round #448

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This is all for this contest, see you soon!

👋👋 @goga22

[Movie] Dawn of the Dead: a Classic Watch

storicious — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:02:09 GMT

Back in time, I used to watch lots of zombies stuff, even in this present time, I am a big fan of this genre. So decided to give this old movie a try. Old? Well, it is almost 2027, so I can say that, right?

Although, I doubt that I enjoyed it, like the way I used to. There are still good zombie movies out there, but this one is just okay.

Some Basic Stuff

On some basic searches one can find that, it is directed by Zack Snyder and written by James Gunn.

The Plot.

So, Dawn of the Dead follows Ana - played by Sarah Polley - whose ordinary life turns into a nightmare when a mysterious outbreak transforms people into horrific zombies. Just imagine, you are having a usual life, enjoyed some good intimacy with your partner last night. Next morning, everything is changed; everything is gone. I think the name really suits it.

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Moving forward, after narrowly escaping her infected neighbourhood, Ana joins a group of survivors, including Kenneth, a police officer. Eventually, they find refuge in a big shopping mall. A smart choice indeed. Because, shopping mall really have almost everything to survive. In this shopping mall, they encounter other survivors and attempt to establish some sense of normality. Normality? A pretty dumb word to summarise it.

As said above, for a while, the mall seems like the perfect place to survive. There is food, shelter, security and pretty much everything one might need. You can have everything just for you, without worrying for anything.

But, as expected, things do not remain peaceful for long. Supplies are limited, tensions rise and the survivors realise that hiding forever is not an option. They decide to escape and head towards an island. Another good thinking, hoping to find safety away from the infected.

And that is where things get more zombified!

The Classic Stuff.

I have always enjoyed this aspect. These movies are the best source of escapism. Yes, I can say that because I am not living there. I am just chilling out here. From worrying about your next shift, you are just trying to survive.

For classicism, the move has familiar ingredients: a mysterious outbreak, abandoned streets, blood and blood everywhere, desperate survivors and the constant fear of turning into one. Becuase, one wrong move and you are done.

However, there is one scary thing: the fast-paced zombies.

Like come on, zombies having this much pace should be illegal. One bite and even a grandma will turn into prime Usain Bolt. Then, there is insane strength they carry. Right in the beginning, a damn man just punches the windshield, and damn broken.

Jump Scares!

Well, the starting one were quite good. Basically, the sound system made it all really great. Later on, they were there; but this mind of mine got used to those. Dah! But I will still give good marks for this approach.

One man army: Andy!

Well a single man surviving all alone is bit hard. But he got some survival instincts. He is a good sniper, has food, good at chess. The survivors at the mall and Andy communicated via board writing and binoculars. He was really fun to watch. But his ending was tragic. Rip Andy and everyone else.

The Ending (Spoiler)

The survivors, after some planning, eventually attempt to escape the mall using buses and make their way towards a marina. Their plan is to reach an island by boat, where they hope the zombie outbreak will be less of a threat.

Of course, things do not go according to plan. The escape costs several survivors their lives; and even reaching the boat does not guarantee anyone's safety.

Then there is Michael sort of protagonist, who has developed a close relationship with Ana, is bitten. Knowing that he will eventually turn into a zombie, he chooses to stay behind rather than endanger the others. It is a sad moment, especially after watching the survivors struggle to stay alive together for this long. But that scene really lacked good emotions.

Next ahead, Ana and the remaining survivors set off towards the island. For a moment, it feels as though they might have finally escaped. Sort of a new beginning.

But the end credits reveal what happens next through footage recorded by the survivors. Their supplies begin to run low, and when they finally reach the island, they discover that it is not the safe world they had hoped for. More zombies appear, and the footage ends in chaos.

So, did they survive? The movie leaves us without a proper answer. But my take is: they failed!

In the end, it is an entertaining zombie movie - probably my nostalgia made me say it, but I cannot say that it impressed me. Perhaps I have watched too many movies from this genre, or perhaps my taste has changed over the years. Who knows.

Maybe I am just getting old.

Imagine being old enough to call a 2004 movie old.

Ratings as of now

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The Far-Away Sky

storicious — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:12:06 GMT

Hello, humans of this chaotically beautiful world!

I guess the title says it all, but what good is writing without personal interpretation of the said thing? I just read this, "I wonder how a bird, whose wings were cut off, looks at the sky?" on an Instagram post, and felt truly intrigued. Kudos to the one who made it sound this poetic and beautiful, sad though.

So let the questions take over.

Does it still look at it with the same curiosity? Does it remember what it felt like to fly? Or has it just accepted its fate? And maybe the most painful question is: does it still dream of flying again?

In its simplest form, you have taken the only purpose of its life. The ultimate freedom.

What's with it?

Being honest, I always find it strange when I have to use "it" for another living creature. I mean just because they are not human; we just label them as it. And if I recall, I have talked about this thing before as well. Best escape is to just say it is a grammatical way. And funny thing is, we do this with humans, too. Just bit differently, we have a big vocabulary for such labelling: the coward, the failure, the introvert etc. At surface, we rarely bother to ask what happened before we arrive at our conclusions. Maybe labels are convenient because understanding someone requires effort, while labelling them requires only a few seconds. Although, me saying someone clears the intention behind. Because the closed one are never someone.

Anyways coming back to our bird, I wonder if we would look at this it differently, only if it could speak. Would we be more sympathetic if it told us how much it hurts? How much it missed flying? Would we feel sorry for it? But hey, we also do the same thing with humans. Such mysterious and strange creatures, we human are.

Maybe the problem is not that we lack the ability to understand suffering, but that we have made some understanding with conditions i.e. conditional understanding. We usually want explanations, evidence, and sometimes, visible damage before accepting that someone is actually hurt. A person who cries is considered sad, while the one who remains silent is often assumed to be fine - maybe a philosopher. The pain is same, just explained differently, and receives different treatment. So does a bird need to explain its pain for us to recognise what it has lost? We already know what wings are for, right? Yet, when it comes to human, who can explain things, we assume things. Assumptions, such a marvellous word to summarise everything.

Limitations!

But let me be rational for a moment. Just because I understand someone's circumstances does not mean justifying everything they do. There is a difference between explaining a behavior and excusing it. Same way, acknowledging someone's limitations does not mean denying their ability to grow

The same goes for freedom. It simply does not mean the absence of restrictions. Because a caged bird, even with wings, may fail to fly. A human may have every legal right to pursue a dream and still lack the resources or opportunities to make it possible. Technically, at the surface, the door is wide open. Practically, the distance between standing at the cage door - the start line, and the other side can be enormous. Because it is easy to tell everyone that try harder while ignoring their circumstances is hardly a reasonable solution.

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - Rousseau.

Maybe the cruelest cage is the one that convinces its prisoner that the open sky was never real, never for them.

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Peace 🕊️

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WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON???

nwothini335 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:24:39 GMT

I was at work today, when I got a message from a hivian. They said their account was hacked. There was an unauthorized transfer that occurred in their account about 4hrs ago. Their hive, hbd and some engine tokens were moved from their account to another account, @leo-audit73.

^{my chat with the person}

I thought she clicked a link, or she gave another account permission to her active key, or probably leaked her keys, but she said she did not. I checked through hivetask to see if she gave any account her posting permission, but then, there was none.

From the information gotten through Peakd profile (stats + KE section), I saw that leo-audit73 was created in October, 2026 by @leosubscriptions. Maybe Leosubscriptions' account creation ticket was used for this purpose.

I dug dip and saw that the hivian that complained to me was not the only person affected.

The accounts below are the ones I was able to go through at the moment.

@drindrin421
@crypto-hokage
@waleedraza
@rashidizy
@daily.life
@betheloji12
@foh123
@hafiz.pepe
@zencoding
@dragan1957
@ugospur
@minigamerbob
@grimgor2025
@stimu
@mophela
@bdhiv
@waleedraza
@completenoobs
@sadrulhasan
@buffalobaby
@nekoglai2415
@theradiodemon
@setpromohive
@azkl
@sizebo112344
@wordspacing
@mike21nash
@babygirl1888
@oluchi94
@therealtalk

There are more accounts, which are below. I was not able to go through these accounts.

@honey-swap, @keychain.swap, @drindrin421, @minigamerbob, @grimgor2025, @stimu, @mophela, @bdhiv, @waleedraza, @completenoobs, @sadrulhasan, @dragan1957, @crypto-hokage, @nekoglai2415, @buffalobaby, @leosubscriptions, @theradiodemon, @setpromohive, @azkl, @sizebo112344, @anikamuntaha, @oluchi94, @tanzil7, @wordspacing, @mike21nash, @waxpwaxpmexchive, @annie3, @mxchive-test, @uid566056830, @bdhivesteemcb, @uid20166111, @keshavgeer, @kenny56, @gentleugo, @richardandmille, @geekontheroad, @vibryx, @leoreferral, @babygirl888, @nzubechi1, @dagger12, @contactmexc, @ayelabowo44, @betheloji12, @hiveamma1, @brenique, @zarababe, @israrbaho, @aladren.dawson, @rayabdulrehman, @pantheontcg, @mxchivechain, @daralicious1, @braingraft, @yanbolludeniz2, @uid66642513, @agneskigighaso21, @uid17514664, @earnwithhive, @omotolani01, @f1lya, @adewaleopeyemi63, @abedla, @biza, @avila.diego2, @skatecedar100, @karendanni, @mexcarb, @mexc-hiveprom, @uid86628188, @pepzerbi, @kristianto.jrm, @juecco, @theonlineluxe, @esthervoice, @thewalltrading, @bdhivesteembug, @instrumentalpain, @sergeyjeyms, @lifehackeraf, @hemmydo20, @livepayout, @qring, @hangerio, @therealtalk, @mexc-walle, @isoc7798, @zion21, @hivelectrician, @adeife1, @completenoobs, @zedbna, @geekontheroad, @awolowolight, @arbitragehive, @foh123, @dorisk, @bdhivesteemchain, @nhelman64, @kgphotos, @infonews, @opeisanartist, @snowdawn94, @krk101, @med-4fun, @bitgethivechain, @djkarlsoriano, @tarinaa, @nathanxt, @agneskigighaso21, @abdalazizalanzi0, @kgphotos, @alicena, @bdhivesteempro, @bdhivesteemapple, @bagelife, @fzm27, @abbafada, @sammmi, @sparkz1, @zerox131224, @bulusjairus, @spicek, @livepayout, @theonlineluxe, @hangerio, @cplaza198, @instrumentalpain, @tammysings, @rashidizy7, @luisana1604, @mxchivecb, @mhmtdn1z, @yanbolludeniz2, @emmycruise27, @khokon70, @reaccioncultural, @didiebaby, @damond02, @deilsonbarbosa, @askartau, @bulusjairus, @huobi-earn, @bumcryptotiger, @hive.testnet, @mepc, @caterpii, @snowdawn94, @uid67278834, @braingraft, @everydaydec, @angelastorace95, @infonews, @ugospur, @luizvitao, @segio, @lagordita2480, @malika765, @naypaing967, @foh123, @marilynruru, @designerpin2, @joseaquia43, @alesaucedo, @leighmine, @daniele5, @uid45122291, @voteblast, @duskflow, @alicena, @izuegbuna, @pinki01, @techtren, @spectrabytes, @tarinaa, @shacks0012, @bingxhive, @lordsabaine, @mxchive-mexc, @kiras12

Things I noticed about the affected persons

Their accounts were created by @leo.voter (leo.voter's account creation ticket), which means that these accounts were created using inleo (I stand to be corrected).
Hive, HBD and Engine tokens were transferred from their account to leo-audit73.
After each transfer, a power down was initiated, and saved HBD was unstaked.
The memo I noticed in these transactions are:

failover sweepi16240
claim sweep
fixup residual sweep
selftest hive e.t.c

The accounts don't undelegate delegated HP.
Some of these accounts are active, while a few are not.

I don't really know what's going on here, but these activities look really fishy to me.
Maybe a scammer, or something, I don't know. I checked through inleo's discord Announcement, but I didn't see any announcement regarding this as at the time of writing this post.

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I Almost Lost My Hive Account to a Discord Scam!

bhattg — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:37:48 GMT

Scams have increased a lot these days. Earlier you might have been scammed offline but now it has become much easier to get scammed online than before. Technology is being used very well and they fool people in such a way that people are quite surprised as to how they can be fooled so easily by such tricks. They get your personal information or they have some information about you which gives you some confidence that this person is not fake. Just when you are convinced of this, the problem starts once the camera gets into trouble. But sometimes we get the feeling that we are doing something wrong and as soon as we get to know about this, we must take some action regarding it immediately. Sometimes the scams are very small and we ignore them but sometimes the online scams are very large and we do not understand them. Often, they target people who don't have much knowledge about technology, and yet some of easily fall into their trap.

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See now everyone is very smart but sometimes we think that we are smart and no one can fool us and that is why we make mistakes because we become very over confident and that is why we make mistakes. Whenever we do anything online, it is very common for others scam us, we just have to keep ourselves safe. Because you are the one who has the key to your information, this is what happens mostly. But nowadays, from your mobile phone to any electronic gadget you use, a lot of your information is available in it, which can be easily scanned. First of all, never give your personal belongings to any stranger because you do not know how he can misuse it against you.

Well, I have been subjected to so many such scams and I have also taken advantage of some scams xd , maybe I will tell you about that some other time. But the one I am going to tell you about today, it happened to me last year in Discord. There are a lot of scammers in Discord, you should be very cautious. Many people here are impostors, who fool you by stealing other people's identity and if you are not familiar with any of the server people, then you get scammed easily. Although many people try very hard, but sometimes we make some mistakes which we feel bad about later. So it happened with me that I was facing some problem in my Leo interface, so I went to their Discord server to complain about it, as soon as I sent a message there for help, I immediately got a DM from an unknown person. And he told me that you have to follow these steps, after which whatever your problem is, it will be solved.

And that person invited me to another Discord server. At first, I was a little suspicious about everything. But I thought maybe they created a separate server for whatever problems they were facing and then I joined it. When I joined them, there were a lot of people there who were not familiar with them at all. I thought maybe the tech team is different. Then the person send me a link , I also opened the link and asked me to log in there. The website seemed a little suspicious to me and then I took help from chatgpt. I hadn't logged in with any of my keys during that time. Which was a good thing because even opening the website didn't put me at any risk. As long as I didn't use any of my keys or logins, I was safe.

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So this was my experience, I mean you can say that if I had made even a small mistake, I might have lost my Hive account and my years of hard work. And I went and spoke to the owner of Leo on DM about this and guess what, he did not react to this which made me even more suspicious and disappointing too. Well, if I wanted, I could post the chat here, but I won't. I don't want anyone's image to be harmed in any way. Anyway, their project is facing a lot of problems, maybe people have forgotten about it or not. I don't know. I would like to say thank you because probably my best profit till now was when the hive was around 0.5 USD per hide. I sold a lot of LEOS back then and at that time the price of LEO was also quite good and if you talk about my return of investment then it was quite good which is why I am thankful for that particular token. Many people invested a lot of money here and they suffered huge losses, some people got out from there but some are still there which is a very sad thing. They always come up with some new project no idea why ?

Look, it is my experience that many people still fall prey to scammers in Discord. I would say that whenever you talk to any person in Discord, first double verify whether it is original or not. If it is original then only you are contacting them, otherwise block them.

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Too many "And" and some "Yapping"

storicious — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:33:39 GMT

Last night, I was not able to sleep. So, I decided to play some chess. I played like four-games, and won first three. But for the last one, I made a blunder. And here I thought I was playing to relax a bit, to divertt my mind from insomniac condition. Silly me, lol!

And that made me think a lot. Like how I was treating my mistake as something big. And knowing myself I know I will repeat the same mistake again, once I get rid of this one. Moreover, just how my mind - actually I - decided to stick with the blunder; rather than be happy for three consecutive wins. Funny how mind games work!

And we deal with life the same way.

Okay I am generalizing here, and maybe I am so so wrong, but nothing to kill. We can have a hundred things going right: waking up, being able to walk, food, shelter etc; yet one thing going wrong is enough to ruin our entire day. Even we hold grudge against the Lord. And LOVE the epitome of all the worldly feelings work this way. Once we are together, it is all good. Once the opposite, it aches. But I believe the heartbreaks are necessary, otherwise lots of talent - the poetry, the literature - would have remained hidden.

Anyways the point here is to live. Yes, we all make mistakes, and this thing makes us human being. And perfection? Well, it is nothing but a foolishness.

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live."

Do not worry, I am not talking about that blunder anymore. Here, I am talking about guilt. Because this thing really sucks. And I wonder, is there anyone without an exception for it. Even the narcissist will havve something to feel it, to feel remorse.

Maybe guilt is the price we pay for becoming aware of ourselves. And the strange thing is that: we often judge our past selves using the very wisdom we gained from their mistakes. Woooo! It feels like I have said something big. We expect our younger selves, less experienced one, to have known what we know today. We usually forget that some lessons only make sense after have faced some consequences. Best example I can think of right now is, learning to drive a car. There was a time, when shifting a gear felt like a rocket science. Then comes a time, when it all becomes a muscle memory. And, we human usually call it - experience. Such a beautiful word, isn't it? Actually more than a word. It is an emotion in itself.

Is there any lesson?

Well, I do not know. Actually, I was thinking of writing something meaningful, and now, I do not even know what have I said. I just dodged one thought and moved to another one.

Anyways, in the end, lesson is there. Just get a hold of it. Think about "YOUR" mistake, and do not let guilt ruin you. Learn from the lesson, feel guilty for sometime, then move on and repeat the cycle bit differently. Do not let the inside die, before death tears us apart.

One irony that I read somewhere: if I had the mindset I have today, I probably wouldn't gave committed some of the mistakes I made in the past. Yet, if I hadn't made those mistakes, would I have developed this mindset in the first place?

Open to your interpretation!

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Peace 🕊

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Ecency Web 4.4.3 - Faster, More Social, More Fun

ecency — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:41:30 GMT

A new Ecency release is here! 🚀

Version 4.4.3 brings a large collection of improvements across Ecency - from faster feeds and better reading performance to major upgrades for curation, chat, audio, and the first steps into something a little more playful.

A lot has changed under the hood too. This release includes dozens of fixes and optimizations aimed at making Ecency faster, more reliable, and more resilient across desktop and mobile.

Here are some of the highlights.

Faster feeds and reading

Speed has been a major focus of this release.

Feeds, community pages, profiles, and individual posts have received significant rendering and caching improvements. More content can now arrive with the initial page response, helping pages become useful sooner instead of waiting for additional client-side loading.

Feed navigation has also been improved to make returning to content feel more natural. Cached rows can be restored during navigation, feed cards now have unique identifiers for restoring reading position, unnecessary image/GIF requests have been reduced, and several sources of perceived slowness have been removed.

The result: less waiting and a smoother experience while browsing Ecency.

Curation Desk gets much more powerful

The Curation Desk continues to evolve into a serious workspace for community curation.

This release adds and improves:

A curator roster administration panel
Quick actions for recommended posts
Better mobile support for reviewing and marking posts
Smarter handling of already-reviewed recommendations
More accurate recommendation counts
Improved review workflow and toolbar
Guest curator applications, which is open at the moment, go Apply: https://ecency.com/curation/applications
Tools for curation teams to review and elect guest curators
Better handling and labeling of excluded content

These changes make it easier for curation teams to organize themselves, discover content, and collaborate on rewarding valuable contributions.

Better group chats and private channels

Ecency Chat also received a substantial update.

Group conversations are now supported on the web, along with improvements such as seeing who reacted to messages, displaying sender names correctly in groups, renaming groups, sorting conversations by activity, and showing previews for post links.

The New Chat experience and responsive layouts have been polished as well, making conversations easier to manage across different screen sizes.

Listen with natural voices

Reading isn't always the most convenient way to enjoy a great Hive post.

The new Listen experience introduces natural-voice audio generation for posts, unlocked using Ecency Points.

Instead of relying on the browser's Web Speech text-to-speech system, Ecency can generate a more natural listening experience. The player includes playback speeds up to 2.5× and shows generation progress while your audio is being prepared.

Whether you're walking, driving, exercising, or simply prefer listening, this gives you another way to experience content on Hive.

Welcome to Raidstead

Something different has also been growing inside Ecency.

Raidstead is a new community raid game where alliances become towns, players rally together, build their war chest and town, follow their allies' progress, and prepare to face weekly pests.

The first version introduces the Raidstead world, heroes, alliance towns, a pre-season field guide, weekly pest reveals, progress tracking, town news, season countdowns, and more.

HiveSigner users can participate too.

This is an experiment in making community participation more interactive and fun - and we're looking forward to seeing where it goes.

Reliability, security and SDK improvements

A lot of work in 4.4.3 isn't immediately visible, but it matters just as much.

We've strengthened several areas of the application, including safer handling of untrusted metadata, improved error handling, protection against malformed content, URL-secret redaction from error reports, safer opening of external tabs, and better handling of taken-down content.

The Ecency SDK also received important transaction improvements, including transaction-size validation, better compatibility with encrypted memos, node failover when broadcasting transactions, improved block references for lagging nodes, correct authority serialization, and safer retries for ambiguous AI Assist requests.

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