Always excellent work from you @arcange , so many people try to publish stats and it's hard to follow some of the data but you have presented the absolutely most relevant numbers using very clear and digestible methods to graph each one.

I am going to say, it's brought me a big old bag of mixed emotions to see these results though.

On one hand, my feelings are validated about the state of affairs here for user activity and population sizes and growth rates and I cannot lie and say I am anything but disappointed to have those personal feelings and observations validated by the data.

On the other hand, I am slightly encouraged to see that at least my personal results in offering new apps and tools to the users of the ecosystem and my efforts to campaign the witness over the last month are at least doing proportionately FAR better than I thought they were, given the meta illustrated here.

Up till now, I kind of thought, wow, my 7 years of reach here ain't reaching any more, and the response to my effort is feeling pretty lackluster.

But actually, it seems that based on what you are showing us here, that given the sheer small amount of activity and usage, I'm actually getting HiveStreams.Live (app) and HiveStreams.net (user tools) and my blog posts in general about them and other things, in front of a LOT of the daily active users.

So, in turn to have 40 or so people sign up for the live streaming platform app in it's first week of existence last week was actually really significant against the total available users who might even care about my offering's niche in the first place.

My app provides twitch style live streaming with some basic hive posting and wallet integrations, so I never expected it to appeal to "everybody here!", I did expect to see more people interested in it and talking about this new option on the chain, than I initially have heard from.

Knowing now that I am actually hearing from a pretty big percentage of "the dailies" is at least letting me know that it's not because nobody cares at all, but more that there is just not so many anybody's even there at all. And of those who are here, word is getting around.

I'm not going to stop building more capability into it just because it is trying to serve such a small audience as far as the social network utilization aspect of Hive goes, and in fact, it was always meant as just another tool in our belts to use ourselves, but it also can serve to entice the "outsiders" to find us and join us.

But I can calm down a little about feeling the sting of slow adoption and awareness, because your numbers against my results lead me to believe its actually performing about as well as it possibly even could here right now.

A takeaway from my lesson for everyone here is KEEP GOING! It may feel like our posts and contributions in any form aren't going very far, or being rewarded like we hoped they might be.

But then you see this and realize that for every outlying $80 post you see from an OG whale type that makes you feel like you aren't reaching your potential, well, those are outliers mostly and there are some ways they achieve those numbers due to "who they know" and sometimes "what they do",

But really, there are a few thousand of us all performing right to the averages with our $2-5 posts and that getting 3 or 4 dozen people to join your new app in a week, or getting a couple hundred blog upvotes, even if they don't add up to much financially due the scaling of wallet size/account quantities we are being shown here, is actually a solid accomplishment in an overall potential audience of this modest size, and not a failure to launch at all!

Heck, I'd love to see this broken down one more level. Language. If you crawl around the place, you'll find huge pockets of Spanish speaking communities, other languages doing their things, and then the sort of "mainstream" stuff in English across all of it.

This is relevant because for example, if there are a hypothetical 1000 total users and 500 operate here in only Spanish, 100 only Japanese, 100 speak various other languages, and these have a certain percentage that do not in turn union set on English, than maybe you aren't even able to EVER reach the whole place, only those that operate in the language you choose to use here.

So that makes small successes like I've been discussing so far, even BIGGER if viewed in regard to the size of your publishing language's subset of the total platform potential audience.

Summarizing this, these are some pretty encouraging disappointing numbers!

You, yes you, dear reader of this comment, whomever you may be, your blog doesn't suck! Your app isn't failing! We just need to get you some more eyeballs to even see it! If you get any reaction at all, you probably reached a sizeable amount of the available potential after all!

So Way To Go, You! Keep up the good work!