Hive offers multiple frontends for its social apps and users to interact with. This gives the users the freedom to choose their favorite one. Some of them filter out the content and focus just on a specific content.
Hive is showing how constrained we are on traditional web2 apps like X/Twitter. I use multiple frontends on Hive for different purposes and really like the freedom to shift between them and select what I want.
Let’s take a look of the posting on the top hive frontends and their individual share.
We all know blogging dApps are not the only ones built on Hive. Games are taking advantage of the Hive blockchain and we are already seeing more of them built each day. Splinterlands opened the gate for games on Hive, and now we have many more.
Here we will only be looking only into the blogging apps:
- Peakd
- Ecency
- Hive.Blog
- Inleo
- Actifit
- dBuzz
- 3Speak
- Liketu
- Others
The period that will be analyzed is from April 2020 till now.
We will be looking at both, posts and comments activities.
We will also rank the top frontends by number of in the last 30 days.
Peakd
According to the data the most used Hive frontend.
Here is the chart.
Note that the chart includes both, posts and comments per day.
An uptrend for Peakd up until May 2022 when there was 10k posts and comments per day, then a drop in the summer 2022, and pretty much constant sideways activities since then. We can say that after the initial drop back in 2022, the activities on Peakd have held well in the bear market.
In the last period the number of posts and comments per day is in the range of 6k to 7k, with a small increase in the last weeks. Out of these around 900 are posts.
Ecency
Ecency has been around for a long time as well. They have a very good frontend as well. Some say it is the fastest ones. One of the best mobile apps included.
A strong growth after the initial transition to Hive back in the summer of 2020. A peak at the end of 2022, and a drop afterwards. In 2023 there is like U shape, when after August the numbers started going up. In the last period the numbers of posts and comments on Ecency is in the range of 6k to 7k per day. Out of these around 600 are posts.
Hive.Blog
The generic Hive frontend. It’s open source as well. Here is the chart.
While Peakd and Ecency have seen growth up until 2022, and a small drop afterwards, the Hive.Blog frontend has been in a downtrend overall. Obviously users are transitioning to the other frontedns and are not using hive.blog as much. It still has a decent number for posts and comments with around 2k per day. We can also say it is a good thing that we have left the initial generic frontend and developed more advanced alternatives, as a sign of decentralization.
InLeo/LeoFinance
LeoFinance has been experimenting with new things like the short form threads. Here is the chart for the posts and comments.
Some big spikes here recently!
In the past the activity on the Leo frontend has reached a high of 2k per month, back in May 2021. Then a drop to around 1k, stayed there for a while and started growing again at the end of 2022. Note that at this point Leo started to introduce the shortform interface. The activity exploded in April 2023, when it reached more than 10k threads per day. Since then it has stabilized around the 3k daily, but the volatility remains high.
Actifit
Actifit is one of the first Hive apps. It is a fitness app where users share their step counts per day. A move2earn.
Here is the chart.
Quite a steady number of posts and comments from Actifit with numbers in the range of 400 to 500 per day.
3Speak
The number of posts/videos from the Hive video platform.
Some ups and downs for 3Speak as well. The ATH was reached back in January 2022, when there were around 300 videos uploaded daily. Then a drop in the following period. A slight recovery in the begging of 2023 with the number of videos going from 150 to 200, and a drop again since then to around 120 where we are now.
Liketu
Liketu is a photo sharing platform build on Hive. Here is the chart.
There has been a massive spike in activities just recently on Liketu. After a long period of a steady numbers for posts and comments at the end May 2023 has spiked up to 700 on one day. Since then they have stabilize in the range of 200 to 300 daily.
Number of Posts and Comments from the Top Hive Frontends
Here is the chart for all the Hive frontends posts per day combined.
Peakd and Ecency are now on the top when it comes to posting and commenting. At first Hive.Blog was on the top but, now it has fallen behind these two, by a significant margin. InLeo/Leofinance with its threads app has made some waves and spiked on few days surpassing all the apps. It is still volatile but seems to be stabilized on the third spot. HiveBlog is now behind the Leothreads app and comes as fourth.
After these four apps, the others are quite down with a few hundred comments and posts daily.
Combined from all frontends there are around 27k posts and comments daily on the Hive blockchain.
Top Hive Frontends in the Last Month
Here is the chart for the overall number of posts from the top Hive frontends in October 2023.
The number of posts is market with white, while comments are with semitransparent color.
PeakD is the most used Hive frontend now but it is closely followed by Ecency on the second spot with more than 200k posts and comments per month. Peakd is leading when it comes to posts, but Ecency is wining on the comments side. Ecency now has a short form module as well called waves, and that is most likely contributing to the comments side. InLeo/Leothreads is on the third place here, with almost 120k posts and comments.
The waivo and beem app are next, but these are mostly automated bot comments.
If we exclude them, Hive.Blog is on the fourth place, and then are Actifit etc.
Top Hive Frontends by Monthly Users
The above was in terms of activity. What about the number of users, or MAUs. Here is the chart.
Peakd is leading here by a wider margin. There is 4.6k MAUs for Peakd in October 2023. October is the worst month in 2023 when it comes to MAUs, and in the other months, Peakd has more than 5k MAUs. Ecency is on the second spot here, but lagging a bit more from Peakd, then on the activity side. HiveBlog is on the third place with 1800 MAUs, and then comes InLeo.
All the best
@dalz