I haven’t done one of these in a log time… I have been avoiding posting steemit related stuff and using my account to let others experience the motivation that comes from trending and earning real dollars for their efforts.
There are those who are not necessarily convinced of the points 
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dantheman/quick-update-regarding-user-retention
The graphs listed there give the view from the blockchain back end.
The graph below gives the view from the front end… It is based on the analytics available based purely on measuring actual user site traffic to the front end.
Blue line represents visitors that visit and leave never to return.
The red line represents visitors that return more than once in quick succession… these are considered loyal users.
As can be seen there a waves of interested users that don’t find what they are looking for and immediately leave. Then there are the loyal users that peak and trough depending on the day of the week.
There are clear growth spurts followed by periods of consolidation but there is no real drop off.
These are the stats for continental users:
RED – Americas
YELLOW – Europe
GREEN – Asia
GREY – Oceana
BLUE – Africa
For all the 
Up till then the number of users from Europe were swapping places with the number of users from the Americas in a neck-and-neck race for first place. RED and Yellow lines