Hello, Hive Project Telegram!

As many other ICOs, Hive Project has recently started reconsidering Slack as our official communication channel with community. We have therefore decided to stop using Slack as an official Hive Project channel & switch to Telegram.

Why have you decided on switching?

There are two reasons for the switch.

Number one reason is that the crypto community itself is starting to embrace Telegram more then Slack.

The second reason is security. Slack has been good to us throughout our journey, but it lacks certain security features we would like to see (such as an ability to control who can post in channels other then #general & blocking mass DM feature). Despite 1700+ users in our Slack, we have been disappointed by the recent flood of scam attempts to users of many Slack channels, including ours.

Wouldn’t paying for Slack help?

The answer is an overwhelming no. Priced at $5 per user per month, it would mean we would likely be spending about $10,000 a month for using a tool with extensive VC backing. We believe that this is not the best use of money from the contributor’s pool & that money is better spent building our business, i.e. adding more people to our support department or using it as a part of invoice financing in HVNX, Hive Project’s own invoice financing fund.

What will happen to Slack channel?

We will remove our Slack channel entirely, will stop linking to it from our website & will replace it with a link to our Telegram today. We have decided to delete the Slack channel entirely, to stop enabling the scam attempts to happen through the never-ending string of security loops.

What now?

Moving forward, Hive Project Team will communicate through 1 official Hive Project channel and one official Hive Project supergroup, available to contributors & supporters.

The channel will replace the #hive-announcements channel on Slack, meaning it will offer a TL;DR overview of the latest news surrounding our company on its mission to bring invoice financing to SMEs. To join the official Hive Project channel, click here!

The supergroup will do, what we have always tried to do in our Slack #general channel: encourage debate, questions and help open support tickets for you in case you run into any trouble. To join the official Hive Project supergroup, click here!

Thank you for your continued support throughout this process & talk to you soon on Telegram!