Ecency is probably the most comprehensive Hive dApp with a web site, desktop application and a 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 sign up 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, 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 the app on Hive, August 2020 till now.
First let us see the number of posts coming from the Ecency.
Here is the chart.
We can see that at the start the app was not heavily used but then it grew by a lot, especially in 2021. The all time high for daily posts has been at the beginning of 2022, where there was 1k post per day. Since then, the activity dropped but not as much. The activity on the app was sidewise for a long time in the range of 600 to 800, then it dropped towards the end of the summer 2023, and it seems that is recovering in the last weeks, with the number of posts per day above 600 again.
The chart above was only about posts.
What about comments?
Here is the number of comments made per day from Ecency.
The growth in the numbers of comments has been even more significant then the posts. From 1k at first to 8k at the top in October 2022. A slow drop from then to 5k in August 2023, and a rise again in the last months, up to 7k again. Its almost back to the ATH again.
When we combine the posts and comments on one chart we get this.
This chart is mainly driven by the comments, since their number is higher. We can see the top for the numbers of posts and comments are not aligned. The ATH for posts was at the being of 2022, while the ATH for comments was at the end of 2022. This is where the overall activity was highest with 8.5k posts and comment made per day back in November 2022.
Becouse of the gorwth of the comments in the last months, we are now aproaching another ATH for activity on Ecency with the cumulative numbers of posts and comments reaching 7.5k again.
When we plot the numbers on a monthly timeframe we get this.
A growth up until August 2022, and almost constant numbers since then. A very small decline in the overall acitivity on Ecency even though it has been a hard year for the crypto prices. October has seen a growth in the numbers after months of slow decline.
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.
After the initial growth back in 2020 and 2021, in the last period we have almost constant numbers of MAUs on Ecency. There has been around 4k MAUs for a long time, then a drop in July 2023 to 3.5k where it has stayed for the next few months, and a small uptrend in the last month.
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 27k unique authors that have used Ecency to post. In 2023 there has been 3.9k new unique authors trying the frontend for the first time.
Here is the rank of the authors that posted the most in the last 30 days.
The top accounts have posted almost 100 posts in a month from Ecency, while the once on the bottom of the chart are with around 60 posts.
Overall, we can see that there has been a very small decrease in the activity coming from Ecency with almost constant numbers for activity and users in the last year. Around 4k MAUs for Ecency making around 600 posts daily and 7k comments. There seems to be a small uptrend in the last months.
Let’s see can the app perform better in the next period and hopefully in better market conditions.
All the best
