Ecency is probably the most comprehensive Hive dapp with web site, desktop application and phone app. Its phone app is the most used app for a general Hive experience with notification system and all. They have a relatively easy build sign un process and creating Hive accounts with just a mail verification.
Ecency has been around for a long time, and it has went trough a process of rebranding when the Hive fork happened from its previous version eSteem. Ecency has been building for years with no hype around the app, but just providing a nice experience, especially on the mobile side.
Let’s take a look at some of the data.
Here we will take a look at the activity on the platform, the overall number of posts and comments, and the number of users. The top content creators for the last month will be presented as well.
The period that we will be looking at is from the creation of Hive, Apr 2020 till now.
First let us see the number of posts coming from the Ecency.
Here is the chart.
An overall downtrend in 2022 in the numbers of posts, especially in the first half. We can see that in the summer there was a small increase in the numbers of posts and a drop now again.
The year started with almost 1000 posts, a drop to 600 in May, then an increase to 800 in September and a drop to around 700 now.
We can say that from the summer we have almost constant numbers of posts, that is good having in mind the continuous decrease in the prices in crypto.
The chart above was only about posts.
What about comments?
Here is the number of comments made per day from Ecency.
This is an interesting chart. The number of comments has been going up in 2022, opposite than the number of posts.
At the start of the yeat there was around 5k comments and now there is 7k comments. Almost 50% increase in engagmet.
When we combine the posts and comments on one chart we get this.
The overall activity is up. Even with the number of posts declining, because comments are growing strong, the overall activity is up.
When we plot the numbers on a monthly timeframe we get this.
A similar trend as in the previous charts with a clearer representation of the growth in the year.
How about the numbers of the authors on the Ecency. How many accounts are posting?
Here is a chart for the monthly numbers of accounts posting.
The number of MAUs for Ecency has dropped but mostly in the first month of the year. Since then, the numbers are almost constant.
The numbers of MAUs have been at 5.8k in January and in November it is at 4.2k.
Note that these are accounts that have posted or commented, meaning both activities included.
Next the number of unique authors that posted from Ecency. These are authors that posted directly through the frontend.
The number of unique Ecency authors is showing continuous growth.
There is a total of 23k unique authors that have used Ecency to post. In the last months there has been more than 650 new unique authors trying the frontend for the first time.
Here is the rank of the authors that posted the most in November 2022.
The top accounts have posted almost 100 posts in a month from Ecency.
Overall Ecency is holding quite well during the bear of 2022. The number of posts has dropped but the number of comments has increased, resulting in overall growing activity. The number of monthly active users MAUs has dropped in the first month of the year and since then has remained around the same level with around 4k accounts making post or a comment per month.
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