Hive Communities | Communities Created, Top Communities by Subs, Activity, HP Weight and Authors

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.

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 4k 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 23k 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 and comments made in 2024.

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 on the top here, and by a lot. This is mostly because of the short form content and the bloging happening there. On the second spot is the Splinterlands community that also has a lot of comments generated. Actifit comes on the third spot.

Top Communities by Active Authors

What about active authors? Here is the chart for 2024.

These are accounts that have made posts or comment in the community.
Leofinance comes on the top with 6k active members for the first half of 2024. Liketu is in the second spot with more than 3k. Phtography lovers are next, followed by Pinmapple/Worldmappin.

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Overall, the number of new communities created has plateaued between 20 to 40 per month. The GEMS community is still leading with the number of subscribers, while the Hive Devs community has the HP power. Leofinance has now emerged as the community with the most activity in terms of posts and comments and in terms with active authors. The Splinterlands community is quite active as well.

All the best
@dalz