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Hive's quarter is mobile parity, with chat and dashboards getting tidied on the side.

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◆Current state
Hive is in a steady incremental polish phase. The dominant thread is pulling more of the desktop experience onto mobile: workflow visibility, time tracking from action cards, Gantt views, and a beefed-up universal search all landed within a week of each other. Chat got a parallel set of refinements (inline video, file gallery, history preservation when members leave), and dashboards picked up median aggregation.
◆Where it's heading
Hive looks focused on closing the desktop-mobile gap rather than opening new product surface area. Each mobile release individually is small, but together they push Hive toward being usable as a primary-not-secondary work surface on phones, which matters most for project managers who actually move around. Expect this cleanup arc to continue for at least another release cycle before strategic capabilities (AI, automation depth) reappear.
◆Prediction
Next likely additions on mobile: editing or creating actions/workflows (currently view-only) and richer dashboard interaction. On the desktop side, a feature touching AI or workflow authoring is overdue given the cadence of small fixes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6d ago

    New File preview enhancements in chat

    Inline video playback, file galleries with keyboard navigation, and visible upload progress remove three small but persistent annoyances in chat. Continues the broader pattern of polishing Hive's collaboration surface against general-purpose competitors.

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  2. 6d ago

    Custom sidebar colors and contrast options

    Sidebar color and contrast options are cosmetic, despite the cheeky title. Notable only in that customer-asked theming is being treated as ship-worthy.

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  3. 13d ago

    Median aggregation for charts and pivots in Dashboards

    Median as an aggregation option closes a real reporting gap for skewed data. Small but a sign Hive's dashboards are being taken seriously enough to warrant statistically-honest defaults.

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  4. 13d ago

    Preserve chat history when members leave

    Keeping DM and group history after a user leaves the workspace prevents the data-loss surprise many tools still inflict. Useful for audit and for teams whose context lives in chat.

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  5. 13d ago

    Mobile: View Workflows

    Mobile Workflows shipped with status indicators and run history, the read-only first cut of automation visibility on phones. Sits inside the broader mobile-parity push that defines this cycle.

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  6. 20d ago

    Mobile: Universal search