A Look at PeakD | Posts, Comments, Active Users and More | Oct 2023

How is PEAKD doing these days? The project is around for a long time now and has been developing a lot of things on Hive. Some of them DHF funded. PEAKD has established itself as the most used frontend on the Hive blockchain. The team around it has been involved in the ecosystem for a long time and they have continuously built and updating it.
The team is also working on a Peak Open project that is funded from the DHF and have more tools for the ecosystem.

Let’s take a look at some of the data.

https://peakd.com

Here we will take a look at the activity on the platform, the overall number of posts and comments, and the number of users. The top content creators for the last 30 days will be presented as well.

The period that we will be looking at is from April 2020 till Oct 2023.

Posts

First let us see the number of posts coming from the PeakD.

Here is the chart.

Some ups and downs here. At the beginning in 2020 there was around 1200 post per day, then this number increase to around 1600 in the bull market in 2021-2022, and a drop in the last period to around 900 daily posts.

In 2023 the numbers have been quite constant in the range of 800 to 1000 posts daily.

This chart follows the price a lot, just with a smaller volatility.

Comments

The chart above was only about posts.
What about comments?

Here is the number of comments made per day from PeakD.

This is qute an interesting chart. The number of comments of comments has increased trouoghout the years, but have not dropped as the posts are. Users seems more engaged as times progresses and leaving more comments on posts.

The number of comments at first were in the range of 3k to 4k daily in 2020, then increased to 8k in the bull market and stayed just bellow that number around the 7k mark since then. There has been some drops to 6k and back, but not at the previous levels.

Posts and Comments

When we combine the posts and comments on one chart we get this.

The comments are dominatign the chart as there are more comments than posts. Whats interesting is when we put together the posts and the comments the dowtrend for the chart is much smaller when compared to posts only. Post and comments has been in the range of 6k to 8k since June 2022, althoough we can notice downtrend in the last months of 2023.

At the top this number was around 10k, that means only a 20% drawback from the top.

When we plot the numbers on a monthly timeframe we get this.

We can see the drop in the summer of 2022, and since then the numbers are almost sideways, with a small drop in November 2022, and a growth since then. In the recent months, we have around 200k posts comments on a monthly basis.

Active Authors

How about the numbers of the authors on the PeakD. How many accounts are posting?

Here is a chart for the monthly numbers of accounts posting.

The all time for MAUs on PeakD was back in April 2022, with 7.5k monthly active users that were making posts and comments. A drop since then, but a small one.

In the recent months as for the posts, we have quite a steady number of MAUs, with around 5k monthly active users. We can even see a small uptrend in October.

Next the number of unique authors that posted from PeakD. These are authors that posted directly through the frontend.

The number of unique PeakD authors is showing continuous growth.

There is a total of 33k unique authors that have used PeakD to post. In 2023 there has been 5k new unique accounts trying the frontend for the first time.

Authors that Posted the Most

Here is the rank of the authors that posted the most in the last 30 days on PeakD.

There seems to be some spam accounts at the very top.
There is some community run projects that report daily as the @ocd and some genuine account in the second half of the ranks.

Authors that Commented the Most

Here is the rank of the authors that commented the most in the last 30 days on PeakD.

More genuine accounts when it comes to commenting when compared to posting.
@galenkp is on the top with more than 1600 comments made from PeakD in the last 30 days. Congrats! Some other well know accounts in the top here as well.

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Overall, we can see that there has been a decrease in the activity coming from PeakD, but not as much as the drop in the price. Comments have proven to be more resilient and the drop in the numbers of comments is smaller than the number of posts. The number of authors is also constant in the last period.

All the best
@dalz