I was going through Hive account@themarkymark's excellent new tool called Hive Analytics and the Valueplan payouts were naturally where I ended up. I was aware how much is being spent on the Rally car for a while now but seeing it in (dark mode) , it still kind of shocked me. $397,773.34 in total. And we moaned and whinged so much about the ninja mine while we were all on Steem only to now be fluttering away the sister fund on Hive and not batting an eyelid.

We are told we are tapping into the motorsport market that has billions of viewers around the world. Now I am pretty sporty and I watch a bit of Formula 1 but the only guy I know who is into rally cars is my barber. It's kind of a niche sport. One for the proper motor heads. The barber would go home and have his dinner and then spend his night with a spanner under the hood of his 1988 Fort Escort tweaking this and that, taking the engine out and putting it back again, getting it ready for his next big event where he would likely finish last or second last. One thing he wouldn't do is open a laptop and go onto a crypto blog site. To think this rally car will bring people to a blockchain is madness. But the chains main stakeholders are coders. A rare breed. Don't like sunlight. So in the unlikely event of the "Make a Wish Foundation" rally car does attract a new user where are they going to head for? Where would my barber head for? Yes the Rally Community to see more rally cars because this is their thing.

So our $397,773 went on attracting 353 subscribers to which 4 are active and one of them is the driver. 🤣. You have to laugh. Being plagued by a BeeGee. This got me thinking about the other Communities and active users.
What Communities are thriving?
Which Community have retained their user base and are still active on hive?

Did you know there are over 4,000 Communities on Hive. That's alot. So I just listed the top 100 most active. This is the first time I wrote a script in python to retrieve the Hive data. I am very proud of myself. Below is data taken from 18.09.2025. Now the rank is not ranked by total subscribers. Most have left. I am looking at the active users. Now before we go into the detail I will point out that I am all for Communities getting DHF funding to grow on Hive. I would much prefer this than giving money to individuals and watch them walk away into the night. But are the most active communities getting the funding? Lets have a look.

Hive Communities ranked by Active User

Summary

So the stats above tell us that the Hive account@leofinance Community is well are truly the number 1 Community on the Hive Blockchain with 758 active users which is impressive. Some of these users are of course micro bloggers but this is the way the world is going and they looked to have adapted. Well done to them for attracting users to Hive. Leo did submit a DHF proposal of their own to onboard new users and which was passed and they received a total of around $231,238 to do it. It looks like the plan worked as it is indeed the top community.

It surprised me that Hive account@actifit were number 2 with 588 subscribers. I have always thought Hive account@actifit are onto something here with their sports project and getting paid to do a run would blow Strava out of the water. Maybe it is time we embrace it rather than calling them shitposts all the time (myself included). Actifit also got funding from the DHF which adds up to a total of $129,418. Compare them to Leo and it looks like this funding worked as well.

Hive account@ecency is in number 3 spot with 472 active users and a really well known mod group that are very active in their community. It is also the best mobile platform by a long shot on Hive. I use it daily and it is excellent. They received so far $627,072 from the DHF fund. If I was to recommend any platform to post on it probably would be them or Peakd so I would have no major problem with these guys getting funding to keep their platforms fresh and clean and well maintained. Now 627k may be pushing it but I am not sure when the funding started etc so it may be over a long period.

Hive account@worldmappin is in 4th spot with 425 his excellent Community which has some of the most interesting posts we have on Hive and it has given me a few holiday ideas. It gets a small pot from the DHF but compared to the rest it is a drop in the ocean with funding of around 17k so far.

It is interesting that Hive account@snaps has more active users than subscribers. Are Hive users mixing them up with the new kid on the block Hive account@snapie or do they just use the Peakd extension and not subscribe. I am not sure. Anyway 288 subscribers with 410 active users. I presume Hive account@snaps is funded from the peakd DHF funding pot.

We have the Photography lovers Community in at number 6 , Liketu at number 7,and the popular Community GEMS at number 8, Lifestyle and Hive Learners make up the top 10. We also see new microblogging Hive account@snapie making an appearance in the top 100 after the successful launch of their ios app. You can see yourself the top 100. At 61st for example we go under Communities with 100 active users. I voted for Hive account@snapie in the DHF funding proposal and it looks like they are way ahead of what they have promised with a nice clean platform.

The Communities receiving funding have more active users obviously. Correct me if I am wrong but is Photography Lovers at number 6 the first Community on the list not to be funded in some kind by the DHF? Maybe someone could get back to me around this? It could be that their community owners are getting some kind of funding but I am not aware.

I was surprised that Hive account@splinterlands has 12,759 subscribers but are not even in the top 10 active users. They have 264 active users ranked in 11th place. This used to be or could have been Hive's golden goose. It still should be in a way but Rexy has long since left the building and was replaced by a Ford Focus as the face of Hive. There was holy war last year when Splinterlands applied for DHF funding only to not get over the line initially. Having finally got over the return proposal for funding they have received 415,623 HBD from the DHF pot ,one can now see both sides of the debate about giving funding to a game linked to Hive but not really active on Hive anymore.

Hive account@ladiesofhive are only 11 active users behind Splinterlands for example which is a credit to their Community. I think the Hive account@ladiesofhive has the most potential for growth out of all the Communities. Now this is an Community that has so much upside potential.

Compare this to the SWC Community which is the GYM Street Workout cabal earning an all time total of $194,058.03 from Valueplan. Add this to their old Valueplan funded account Hive account@marscrea $160.124.42 and we get total funding of $354,182.45. This makes it the 2nd most funded project by Valueplan. The SWC Community sit in 73rd place in the active users Community with 80 active users. And you wonder why people are asking questions about Valueplan. SWC should be applying for DHF funding like the other Communities. Why are they so special? It screams "jobs for the boys". But at least the Hive Community can have peace of mind that they are safe swinging over these bars of theirs with the replenishment of their first aid kit costing the Hive Community 4692.85HBD over a 10 month period. We are talking about the most expensive first aid kit on the planet. I ran this by a paramedic friend and he split his sides laughing. He was asking if there is a defibrillator included at these prices and How the hell did we run out of that many bandages / plasters if they have a 3 year use by date. 😂

In fairness to the Vibes Community which is still relatively new compared to the others are in a respectable 17th place. Vibes is a music competition initiative it has attracted over 5,000 subscribers and has 201 active users . They have received 55,900 HBD to help with their prize fund of 1100 HBD per week. Now that they are established maybe it is time to draft their own DHF proposal like Leofinance, Actifit, Splinterlands and Worldmapping so they are not under the shady Valueplan umbrella anymore. They have some major backers in their post rewards so it should get through easily enough.

Just to put things in perspective. There are 285 Communities ahead of the Rally Community in terms of active users. I had thought actually it would be further down the list of 4000 Communities.
In fact there are only 478 active Communities with more than 0 active users. Rank 479 and below have 0 active users which means 3,638 are empty vessels.

Overall with the amount of funding for some of these Communities, the figures are still stark . I was surprised how little active users they actually are on Hive. . I did an exercise the other day looking at accounts to follow who are actively posting. I wanted to check who some of my active buddies were following to see if I am missing out on some good posts. Seeing that Hive account@meesterboom hasn't posted about El Jefe in a while, I had to go and get my fix elsewhere. But there wasn't many that I was already following. We are a pretty small group of individuals on Hive and most names by now ring a bell which is why I wanted to do this exercise in the first place. Microblogging is most likely the future so funding the likes of Hive account@snapie and Hive account@snaps makes sense. For some of the others it does not make sense and hopefully some Communities will see from above that they have a good argument to apply for their own funding to increase their users.

I told Hive account@themarkymark yesterday that I read a stat recently that a major retailer lost an average of $60 to the average shoplifter. But they lost $60,000 on average to dishonest employees. It looks like the witnesses have the external scambots and shit posters under control by downvotes but it is now imperative that they look into some of the DHF funding and argue it out.

Let me know what your thoughts.