Unlike the traditional media the Hive blockchain has many frontends. Some of them are niche specific, other more general.
What is the usage of each of them? How many posts are posted from the individual frontends? What is the trend? Are some getting more traction then others?
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We all know blogging dApps are not the only ones build on Hive. Games are taking advantage of the Hive blockchain and we are already seeing more of them build 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:
- Hive.blog
- Peakd
- Ecency
- LeoFinance
- dBuzz
- Actifit
- Others
The period that will be analyzed is January 1 to May 24, 2021.
We will also rank the top 10 fontedns by number of posts for January 2021.
Top 10 Hive Frontends
Here is the chart for the overall number of posts from the top Hive frontends in the last 30 days.
Note these are posts only, comments are not included.
Peakd is the most used Hive frontend now. It has surpassed the Hive.Blog frontend. A 38k to 32k posts in the period. Its not even that close.
PeakD has been in the lead for the top frontend for Hive for a while now, almost since the start of the blockchain. It is being constantly developed and introduced with new features that makes it a great experience for Hive.
Hive.Blog, the default frontend is on the second place. Next is Ecency, then the short form apps dBuzz and Actifit. Leofinance, 3Speak also in the top.
Proofofbrain is the new kid on the block. In a short period of existence it has climbed to the top 10 Hive frontends.
Next lets take a look at the individual forntends trend.
Peakd
The chart for Peakd in 2021.
Since the start of the year, we can see an increase of the numbers of posts, from under 1k per day to 1400 per day. In the last period we a small decline in the number of posts. This chart follows the price chart quite a lot.
Hive.Blog
The generic Hive frontend. Its open source as well. Here is the chart.
A very similar chart as PeakD. An increase from the start of the year to 1200 posts per day and then a small decline.
Ecency
Ecency has been around for a long time as well. The old name was esteem. Here is the chart.
More volatility here even than the previous two. An increase, then a small drop. Ecency seems to be growing more than PeakD or Hive.Blog, but it is still smaller then those two.
LeoFinance
The chart for LeoFInance.
Unlike the previous, LeoFinance has seen a drop in the numbers of posts. This is mainly due to the price of the LEO token. It is interesting to see the different dynamics, when there is more than one reward pool.
Number of daily posts from all Hive frontends
Here is the chart for all the Hive frontends posts per day combined.
We can see that Peakd and Hive.Blog are dominant in the number of posts.
But the trend seems to be in more diversification of the frontends. Even slightly but it seems that more posts are starting to come from different frontends. Hive.Blog has lost most of its dominance.
