. Despite the fact that the application is only 3,5 months old it is interesting to look at some results it has reached in 2017.
In 2017 users created 24240 posts and 21847 comments.
Here is the distribution by month:
daily reports (from October to December) usually on average 1 steemit post has more than 2 comments. As we can see posts under 
dmania category have fewer comments (0.9 per post) - this is the specialty of dMania as an app for mainly posting images and GIFs without any text. That doesn’t provoke any discussion as a rule.
In 2017 authors and curators got:
dmania posts got 0$ in payouts. 37.2% of posts got something between $0.01 and $0.99. Only 2.5% earned more than $5 in payouts.1156 authors created at least 1 post in dmania category. 854 (74%) of them earned at least $0.01 from all of their posts. создавали посты в категории dmaina.
who has created 3635 posts (15% of total number of posts)! His nearest closest pursuer 
authored “only” 541 posts.dmania category:
| Author | Number of posts | % of all posts |
|---|---|---|
| 3635 | 15.00% |
| 541 | 2.23% |
 | 521 | 2.15% |
 | 488 | 2.01% |
 | 393 | 1.62% |
 | 372 | 1.53% |
 | 371 | 1.53% |
 | 346 | 1.43% |
 | 341 | 1.41% |
 | 298 | 1.23% |
Here is a table with top 10 users by summary posts payouts in dmania category:
| Author | Number of posts | Post payouts |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | $1,394.79 |
 | 76 | $829.67 |
 | 32 | $623.09 |
| 371 | $619.22 |
| 488 | $601.86 |
| 3635 | $458.76 |
 | 30 | $445.05 |
 | 48 | $379.89 |
 | 35 | $318.14 |
 | 85 | $270.86 |
The next point to examine: what authors had the biggest average payout per post?
Here is a table with top 10 users by average posts payout per post in dmania category:
| Author | Number of posts | Payout per post |
|---|---|---|
 | 1 | $69.76 |
 | 1 | $58.29 |
 | 1 | $57.75 |
 | 1 | $50.58 |
 | 1 | $50.02 |
| 31 | $44.99 |
 | 1 | $40.48 |
 | 4 | $29.13 |
 | 1 | $28.89 |
 | 1 | $26.90 |
In that list most users has only 1 post in dmania category. dMania’s founder
Here is a table with top 10 users by average posts payout per post in dmania category:
| Author | Number of posts | Total number of upvotes | Upvotes per post |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3635 | 16337 | 4.5 |
| 48 | 8179 | 170.4 |
 | 16 | 7060 | 441.3 |
| 371 | 4466 | 12.0 |
| 541 | 3216 | 5.9 |
| 521 | 3019 | 5.8 |
| 488 | 2771 | 5.7 |
| 346 | 2560 | 7.4 |
 | 133 | 2300 | 17.3 |
 | 17 | 2274 | 133.8 |
That TOP is shared by users that have some realistic numbers like 5-12 upvotes per post and users that have some cruel numbers like 133.8, 170.4 and 441.3 votes per post.
The last one index to explore is: TOP 10 authors by comments under their posts. Here is the table:
| Author | Number of posts | Total number of comments | Comments per post |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3635 | 1608 | 0.44 |
| 31 | 655 | 21.13 |
 | 92 | 599 | 6.51 |
| 76 | 598 | 7.87 |
| 32 | 538 | 16.81 |
| 371 | 503 | 1.36 |
| 488 | 395 | 0.81 |
 | 140 | 380 | 2.71 |
 | 100 | 340 | 3.40 |
| 346 | 312 | 0.90 |
It was interesting for me to see what apps do authors use for posting under dmania category. Here is the result of my research:
| Application | Number of posts | % of posts created with an app |
|---|---|---|
| dMania | 23332 | 96.25% |
| Steemit | 865 | 3.57% |
| eSteem | 29 | 0.12% |
| Busy | 6 | 0.02% |
| Steepshot | 4 | 0.02% |
| Steemauto | 2 | 0.01% |
| Streemian | 1 | 0.004% |
| Zappl | 1 | 0.004% |
dMania application is the King with more than 96% posts published using it. Steemit is on the second place with 3,57% share. All other applications have inconspicuous share.
Here is a brief summary for dMania in 2017:
dmania category: 24240dmania category: 171082dmania category: 21847dmania category: 1156dmania category: $17288.51 ($13043.92 author rewards paid in SBD and STEEM POWER and $4244.59 curation rewards paid in STEEM POWER)dMania is at the very beginning of its life but already got growing interest by the community. Every months the number of posts/comments and payouts increases. And with the latest news from dMania’s founder