Communities

For more information about communities, read this document.

All blockchain operations reference communities by their owner account name, i.e. something like hive-NNNNNN where NNNNNN represents the community identifier. That'snot really user-friendly.

Moreover, if you want to get communities related information, you have to browse all operations in chronological order to know what happened within each community. Add to this that the community management operations are non-consensual, and therefore not validated by the blockchain. This will put you in front of a lot of ill-formatted operations you have to deal with and filter.

That's why HiveSQL communities table stores a real-time updated list of all communities and their properties.

Columns

Name	Description
name	community account
type	1=topic 2=journal 3=council
title	display name of this community
about	short blurb about this community
description	a blob of markdown to describe the purpose of the community, enumerate rules, etc. (up to 5000 chars)
flag_text	custom text for reporting content
language	primary language
nsfw	true if this community is 18+. UI to automatically tag all posts/comments NSFW