A Look At PeakD | Posts, Comments, Users | Dec 2022

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.

There is always room for improvement, and this is the case for PeakD as well. 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 November 2022 will be presented as well.

The period that we will be looking at is for 2022.

Posts

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

Here is the chart.

An overall downtrend in 2022 for the number of posts coming from PeakD. This is mainly due to the bad market conditions in the period.
At the beginning of the year there was 1600 posts coming from PeakD and now there is just around 1000 posts per day.

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.

The chart for comments is also having some downtrend but not as bad as for posts. Engagment seems ot be more resilenet 😊.
At the beginning of the year there was around 8k comments daily coming from PeakD. This number even increased going forward with a peak in May 2022. Then a drop in the numbers especialy in the summer and since then there was a small recovery and again a drop in the last month.

At the beginning of the year the number of comments per day was around 8k and now we are at 6k.

Posts and Comments

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

We can see that the overall downtrend is not as bad as only for posts. The comments are making up a bit for the lack of posts.
The year started with around 10k daily posts and comments and now we are at 7k. This is a drop of 30% in activity for PeakD. But have in mind that in the same period the price of HIVE went from 1.5$ to 0.34$ where it is now, or almost 80% drop.

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

We can see the drop in the summer of the year and slow increase since then, and then a drop again in November 2022.

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.

We can see an increase in the number of MAUs for PeakD at the beginning of the year and then a drop in the summer. Since then the numbers have been quite constant with around 6k MAUs.

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 28k unique authors that have used PeakD to post. In the last months there has been around 500 new unique authors trying the frontend for the first time.

Authors that posted the most

Here is the rank of the authors that posted the most in November 2022 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.

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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. Hope that at some point PeakD will streamline the sign up process now that RCs are live, and go for the masses.

All the best
@dalz