How is Hive doing with Communities these days? Communities are an essential feature of the Hive ecosystem as they allow for easy content discovery and finding specific topics that users are accustomed to. Almost all content is posted in some community that is later used by users to filter content, or by curators to support authors and communities. 
If we combine communities with the possibility for easy tokenization, communities’ tokens, and provide tools for users to monetize, things can become very interesting. We are seeing some interesting development from InLeo integrating Dash etc. 





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There have been some well-established communities on Hive, and some new coming in. Some of the communities already have their token on Hive Engine. 

Here we will be looking into the following things:
-	Number of communities created
-	Top communities by number of subscribers
-	Top Communities by activities
-	Top communities subscribers’ stake
-	Top communities by active authors

Communities went live officially in February 2020, but they were in a test phase before that. 

**The period that we will be looking here is from November 2019 till now.** 

## Number of Communities Created
First let’s look at the total number of communities created with time.


 


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We can notice the spike in the number of communities created is quite visible in February 2020 when they launched. Afterwards the number dropped and lately there are few communities created per day. 
In the last period there have been a few communities created, usually is bellow 5 per day.

### If we look at the monthly chart, we get this:

 


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More than 300 communities per month as ATH number, while in the last months there is between **20 to 40** communities created per month. 

There are now more than **4k** communities on Hive.

## Top Communities by Number of Subscribers
Who are the top communities on the blockchain?
We will be looking at this with more than one parameter, but for starters let’s take a look at the most obvious one, the number of subscribers.

Here is the chart.

 




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The GEMS community comes first with **23k** subscribers, followed by OCD. Photography lovers, Leofinance and Foodies are in the top as well all close to the top one with 22k subscribers. The subscribers’ numbers to the communities keeps growing.

## Top Communities by Subscribers’ Stake
Another interesting way to rank communities is the stake of their subscribers. After all we are on a DPoS chain. 
What is the stake weight of the subscribers in each community?
Here is the chart.


 


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In this type of ranking the HiveDevs community comes on top with 53M HP. OCD, LeoFinance and GEMS come next.

## Top Communities by Activity
The number of subscribers in a community and their stake is important. But more important probably is how active the communities are.

Here is the chart for the top communities by the number of **posts and comments** made in 2024.


 

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The red is the number of posts, while the white is the number of comments. 

We can see that LeoFinance, or Inleo as the new brand stands, is on the top here, and by a lot. This is mostly because of the short form content and the blogging happening there. On the second spot is the other shortform community by PeakD, Snaps. Actifir comes on the third spot. Some other know communities as Worldmappin, Photography Lovers, Splinterlands in the top as well.

## Top Communities by Active Authors
What about active authors? Here is the chart for November 2024. The MAUs. 

 



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These are accounts that have made posts or comments in the community.
Leofinance comes on the top with 2.6k active members in November 2024. Actifit is next followed by Photography Lovers. 

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Overall, the number of new communities created has plateaued between 20 to 40 per month. The GEMS community is still leading with the number of subscribers, while the Hive Devs community has the HP power. InLeo has now emerged as the community with the most activity in terms of posts and comments and in terms of active authors. 



All the best
@dalz