Appreciate you putting this together... even if the trends are not all that positive. I just worry — as I did back on Steem — that too many people "with influence" are too concerned about building cool dApps and creating "micro-incremental" improvements to Hive... rather than focusing on the potential new members who are going to USE those features.

We also need to be careful (and this is NOT a criticism!) that we don't have so much content "about Hive" that the front page here comes across as irrelevant to anyone just driving by and who's not interested in blockchain, developing and cryptocyrrency... because that is a very tiny market niche.

I've been a bit short on time, myself, as of late... but one of my personal ambitions for the 3rd quarter is to publish MANY posts/articles that are in no way intended for internal Hive consumption, meaning they will be written specifically for external interest groups I am connected to. They may not get rewarded well because they will not be standard Hive "fare," but they will go before a lot of eyeballs. Now that we have a few more tools available... like PeakD page view stats and the Onboarding program... I feel a little more encouraged to explore this angle. Before, it felt meaningless because we had no page views, no way to see whether anyone actually READ something externally and responded by signing up.

I feel "cautiously optimistic" at this point.