A Look At The Top Hive Frontends | Jun 2023
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 Twitter. I use multiple frontends on Hive for different purpose 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
- LeoFinance
- Actifit
- 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, 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 7k to 8k. At the peak this number was 10k.
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 the best 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 small drop in 2023. In the last period the numbers of posts and comments on Ecency is in the range of 6k to 7k per day.
We can notice the downtrend here as well, but not as much as for PeakD. Actually, in the summer there was a period with the numbers going up. The year started with around 800 posts per day and now we are at around 600.
Hive.Blog
The generic Hive frontend. Its 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 numbers 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.
LeoFinance
LeoFinance have been experimenting with new things like the short form threads. Here is the chart for the posts and comments.
A very strong growth in the last few months. A spike in activities in May 2023. This is due to the launch of the new UI that is promoting short for contend. Note here again that this chart included both posts and comments, as the short for content on Leothreads are comments. On a few occasions the number of comments on the Leothreads app have reached 20k per day. In the last weeks it is around 3k.
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 with around 500 posts and comments per day.
3Speak
The number of posts/videos from the Hive video platform.
We can see an interesting trend here. The top was back in 2022, but there has been another increase in activity in the first months of 2023. A small drop since then and we are now at around 150 posts and comments coming from 3Speak.
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 around 300 daily.
Number Of Posts From All 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. 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. Hive.blog 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 is around 30k 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 June 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. This is the case, for both, posts and comments.
Leothreads now comes on the third spot, with majority of the activity coming from 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, Liketu, dBuzz, 3Speak.
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@dalz
Hive being third party app friendly is a very strong selling point unlike Reddit with the API debacle.
They are pulling the plug on free API and now many apps that have been used for years are going poof GONE e.g. RedditIsFun
https://www.talklittle.com/rif-is-fun/goodbye
I just hope Hive never goes this route with trying to monetize API calls. Thankfully the witnesses have been generous with their compute resources.
I guess the freeness of the data depends on each node and they can choose how to operate. If they are witnesses then they can income from that. I'm interested to see how things scale.
I understand the peak and uptrend for liketu because it's easy to post a bunch of photos with a little bit of text. You didn't mention ecency waves which I believe will give ecency a boost.
Thanks for sharing.
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Daily the activities on eccency is growing up
Well, very informative chart analysis this has brought out 👍
Frontends are the gates which made hive easy and accessible. More dimensions, more growth and I would say 5-6 differently designed dapps have created space for creators of distinct taste to gain common platform and ground.
I would say, peakd is well decorated, but other apps are also wonderful and #ecency is one of those TOPPER!
I think Leofinance got pumped up because of the usage of leothreads. Still can't imagine how peakd still toppled it especially this month of June. Amazing
Ecency is closely trailing behind PeakD. It has a great growth journey over the years. Leofinance is coming around the top too. Thanks for the interesting stats :)
Oh, a bit like I thought. Admittedly I was betting that PeakD would get more than half the traffic but (on a quick count) 35-40% is not bad either.
Detailed post, well done Dalz!
I use Peakd, Ecency, 3speak and Leofinance but for different purposes, but I prefer to post and comment through Ecency while I use Leofinance for Leo posts and curations. I can see Peakd is doing fine here. I don´t think people still use Hive.blog again, including myself. I can´t remember when last I have been on that frontend.
I use ecency peakD & leothreads for hive and its activities more growing
Realmente me recomiendan cada día más liketu todos los hivers acá en Venezuela la están usando. A mí me gusta es ecency.
Beem stands for automated comments written from the Beem Python library?
Yes
I think it's healthy that we have several different front ends sharing the traffic, but we have to be realistic about Hive as a whole being tiny. At a time when people are leaving corporate sites we are not gaining many users. Meanwhile Mastodon is gaining thousands each day. I'm just not sure how we can improve matters, but each of us can play a small part in raising awareness of Hive across other platforms.
I have run some queries of my own and they show a decrease in active users internationally. Venezuela seems to be our biggest country, but that may just be a couple of thousand. We need to keep existing users whilst gaining new ones.
Thanks for the stats.
Sure, hive is still very tiny and there seems to be not a lot joing in this market conditions. The sign up process is pointed out as being the number one obsticle but it is probably more than that. We need to trasit towards frontends to onboard users
I've not done the sign up for a long while as I can create accounts anyway. It does need to be easy. Once people get the concept of using Keychain it's not too bad really. We need tutorials to get them started.