Hive Social has blow out up in 2022 , after Elon Musk ’s Twitter takeover had thousands of substance abuser searching for a Modern home for their social medium posts .
However , just as Hive began gain traction , the app was forced to ( temporarily ) close its doors as it address some serious security concern .
Scroll down to learn everything there is to know about Hive Social , let in what it is , who run it and what run low down in November 2022 .
What is Hive Social?
Hive Social is a microblogging site that launched in 2019 and has oftentimes been compared to Twitter .
Like other social media site , Hive allows exploiter to share text , images , GIFs , opinion poll and other posts with followers and have users differentiate their profiles with usernames , profile images and banner .
Hive also offer some more unique feature , include colour theme , profile music ( that count toward artist stream ) , zodiac signs , badges , Q+As and , most importantly , a chronological provender . Hive ’s website ascertain that there is no fantasm banning or higher precedency accounts that dictate the decree that posts appear on the app , meaning users do n’t want to repugn with verified substance abuser to appear on their follower ’ feeds .
Hive also treats NSFW cognitive content differently from other social media site . NSFW photos , videos and digitally - make content are permit on Hive as long as you toggle the NSFW button in post configurations . This forestall this content from being seen by minors .
Hive Social is currently available to download on the iOS App Store or on Android devices through Hive ’s genus Beta . However , the want of a full Android release has n’t stopped Hive from produce massively – specially over the last few months .
The site saw a huge inflow of raw users after Elon Musk took over Twitter in November 2022 . In an audience withNewsweek , Pop said Hive had reached 1,240,000 user on November 22 , including a quarter of a million sign - ups that day .
Who owns Hive Social?
Hive was created by Raluca Pop ( aka Kassandra Pop ) , a 23 - year - old student know in Southern California .
After learn herself to code in June 2019 , Pop launched the first interlingual rendition of Hive Social with a free-lance developer that same October . Since then , the Hive team has expanded to just three multitude – Pop , a developer and a designer .
The app is funded by a combining of Pop ’s own personal loanword , an backer investor and crowdfunding .
Is Hive Social safe?
On November 30 2022,Zerforschungshared a mail detailing a number of critical exposure it had give away on Hive Social .
These vulnerabilities would allow potential attackers admission to a breadth of information , including user email address , earpiece numbers , shared media , private posts and even deleted verbatim substance .
Hi everyone! 🐝 The Hive squad has become aware of security topic that affect the stability of our program and the safety of our user . doctor these matter will require temporarily turning off our waiter for a couple of days while we mend this for a better and safer experiencepic.twitter.com/wOgW7ga9xN
In response to this study , Hive temporarily deactivate its servers on December 1 to work on creating a “ good and safer experience ” . At the time of publication ( December 6 ) , the servers are still down .
