How is Hive doing with Communities these days? Communities are an essential feature of the Hive ecosystem as they allow for easy content discovery and finding specific topics that users are accustomed to. Almost all content is posted in some community that is later used by users to filter content, or by curators to support authors and communities.
If we combine communities with the possibility for easy tokenization, communities’ tokens, and provide tools for users to monetize, things can become very interesting. We are seeing some interesting development from InLeo integrating Dash etc.
There have been some well-established communities on Hive, and some new coming in. Some of the communities already have their token on Hive Engine.
Here we will be looking into the following things:
- Number of communities created
- Top communities by number of subscribers
- Top Communities by activities
- Top communities subscribers’ stake
- Top communities by active authors
Communities went live officially in February 2020, but they were in a test phase before that.
The period that we will be looking here is from November 2019 till now.
Number of Communities Created
First let’s look at the total number of communities created with time.
We can notice the spike in the number of communities created is quite visible in 2020 when they launched. Afterwards the number dropped and lately there are few communities created per day.
In the last period there have been a few communities created, usually is bellow 5 per day.
If we look at the monthly chart, we get this:
More than 300 communities per month as ATH number, while in the last months there are between 20 to 40 communities created per month.
There are now 4.3k communities on Hive.
Top Communities by Number of Subscribers
Who are the top communities on the blockchain?
We will be looking at this with more than one parameter, but for starters let’s take a look at the most obvious one, the number of subscribers.
Here is the chart.
The LeoFinance community is now on the top with 25k subsrcibers, closely followed by the Photography Lovers and then the GEMS community, which was at the top up to a few months ago.
Foodies, Worldmaping and the Gaming community in the top as well.
The subscribers’ numbers to the communities keeps growing.
Top Communities by Subscribers’ Stake
Another interesting way to rank communities is the stake of their subscribers. After all we are on a DPoS chain.
What is the stake weight of the subscribers in each community?
Here is the chart.
In this type of ranking the HiveDevs community comes on top with 53M HP. OCD, Worldmaping and LeoFinance comes next.
Top Communities by Activity
The number of subscribers in a community and their stake is important. But more important probably is how active the communities are.
Here is the chart for the top communities by the number of posts and comments made in the last 30 days.
The red is the number of posts, while the white is the number of comments.
We can see that LeoFinance, or Inleo as the new brand stands, is at the top here, and by a lot. This is mostly because of the short form content and the blogging happening there. On the second spot is the other shortform content app Actifit, and then the Snaps shorts from PeakD.
Some other know communities as Worldmappin, Photography Lovers, Splinterlands in the top as well.
Top Communities by Active Authors
What about active authors? Here is the chart for the last 30 days. The MAUs.
These are accounts that have made posts or comments in the community.
Interesting on the top are authors who don’t post in a community, so there is a null result there. Then comes LeoFinance, Worldmaping and Phtography Lovers.
Between 1k to 2k MAUs for the top communities.
Overall, the number of new communities created has plateaued between 20 to 40 per month. The LeoFinance community is leading with the number of subscribers and MAUs, while the Hive Devs community has the HP power.
