A Look At PeakD | Posts, Comments, Users | Jun 2023
How is PEAKD doing these days? The project is around for a long time now and has been developing and still is 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.
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 June 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. Bascily since June last year the activity has been in almost contants range around the 8k posts and comments daily combined.
At the top this number was around 10k, that means only a 20% drawback from the top. Much less than the drop in price that is more than 80%.
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 28k posts and 200k comments on a monthly basis.
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. In all of 2023 the number of MAUs is around 5.3k.
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 30k unique authors that have used PeakD to post. In 2023 there has been 2.2k 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.
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.
Hope that at some point PeakD will streamline the sign up process and go for the masses.
All the best
@dalz
I have been using peakd since the beginning and I find it easier than others.
Thanks for the great overview Dalz. I would be interested to see how it compares to Ecency and LeoFinance.
Its coming :)
Yes, would be nice!
Peakd its very helpful for showing all balance and history and login method various option that's unique
Good analysis.
I think peakd has been strong and doing well with regular updates to keep abreast of the tech world. It's my favorite.
I think it is quite simple to make comments than to make posts... That is why we see that the number of comments is more than how we posts
Great to see that the change from the 2021 bull run hasn't entirely tanked the comment. 8k to around 6k is still decent. Can still go higher.
Peakd have been nice and I use it, thanks for sharing.
It's great that comments haven't taken much of a dive in recent months. More users are engaging on the blockchain. Peakd has some great features that makes me use it every day.
Thanks for the interesting stats :)
Peakd is doing pretty fine, even in this bear market, I'm really impressed by the number of posts and comments. Also, we have 2.2k new users. I'm currently using Eccency to post comments and blogs. I may need to try peakd as well.
As we all know that many people stop working when there is a bear market and then the way you have shared all these things with us has increased our knowledge a lot. So now we're seeing the market going up, we're going to see people start coming back from platforms like that.
I think the rise of some front-end like eccency have decreased the user rate on peakd
The resilience of comments compared to posts is an intriguing observation. It suggests that users are becoming more engaged and active in leaving comments on posts, even as the overall number of posts decreases. This indicates a sense of community and interaction on the platform. Thank you for providing such a comprehensive analysis of PEAKD's activity on the Hive blockchain.
PeakD has seen a decrease in activity, but it is encouraging to see that comments have proven to be more resilient. I think this is because comments are a more direct way for users to engage with each other, and they are less dependent on the price of the token.
How does PeakD compare to other interfaces like LeoFinance, Ecency or the native Hive Blog? I've always been a fan of PeakD, I'm curious to see what "participation" looks like across the ecosystem.
As always, great post Dalz.
Currently working on it. Check again on my blog in a few hours :)
I will certainly check it out, thanks!