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. In 2023 there were some communities features updates by @howo and the work is still undergoing to make the communities feature even more powerful.
If we combine communities with the possibility for easy tokenization, communities’ tokens, and provide tools for users to monetize, things can become very interesting.
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 February 2020 when they launched. Afterwards the number dropped and lately there are few communities created per day.
In the last period there are 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 is between 20 to 40 communities created per month.
There are now 3900 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 GEMS community comes first with 22k subscribers, followed by OCD. Photography lovers, Leofinance and Foodies are 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 47M HP. OCD, LeoFinance and GEMS come 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 made in 2023.
The short form platform Actifit comes on top here followed by LeoFinance, D.Buzz as another short form community. Liketu as a relatively new app is in the top as well.
Note that for Leofinance these are posts only, excluding the threads that are counted as comments.
When we add both, posts and comments we get this:
Leofinance is dominant when looking at both activities. This is mostly the way Leofinance works for it short form content, where threads are posted as comments. Interesting Splinterlands comes on the second spot here, meaning SL players are engaged commenting.
Top Communities by Active Authors
What about active authors?
Here is the chart for 2023.
These are accounts that have made post or comment in the community.
Leofinance comes on the top with 10k active members on a yearly basis in 2023. Liketu is on the second spot with around 6k. Phtography lovers are next, followed by Pinmapple.
Overall, the number of new communities created is small now with a total of 372 created in 2023. The well-established communities remain on top in the numbers of subscribers with the top communities having more than 20k subscribers. In terms of activates the short form communities are on the top, this goes for the numbers of authors as well.
All the best
@dalz
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Thanks for the great overview Dalz!
You welcome!
Thanks for sharing this data. Yup!! Leo finance is the most active community in hive.
Very nice article. Is it possible to do a analysis of payouts per community? I would find it interesting which share of the revardpool is payed-out per community.
That is how the trending communities on the side of the frontends are ranked
Thanks for the important updates on activities on the platform. Have a great day.
This is really nice and I’m glad to see my favorite communities there
That’s cool
Informações muito legais sobre como se distribuem os autores pelas comunidades. Parabéns pelo trabalho!
There are many interesting communities here, so Hive doesn't lack anything. This is undoubtedly a strong point that should help the growth of the community.
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Thank you so much for this overview and review
Your analysis are always awesome and thanks for sharing every part of it.
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Thank you so much for sharing with us this overview
Thank you for this very important data to guide us on how the communities worked here on Hive and for showing their respective strengths.
Maybe it's time to check out and join some of these communities. 😜😂
Thank you for your great work. Nice to see the data and the data behind!