Today, some statistics with respect to steemSTEM user retention.
- New authors: the green curve represents the number of unique authors who were supported on week N but not during the 3 preceding weeks (N-1, N-2 and N-3).
- Lost authors: the red curve represents the number of unique authors who were supported on week N-3, but then not anymore (until week N included).
- Persistent authors: the blue curve represents the total number of unique authors that have been supported by steemstem on a 3-week period (N-2, N-1 and N).
In summary:
- We are loosing as many authors as new authors pop up every week.
- The big bump in the middle is connected to the huge SBD prize of last January.
- We can observe some stability that persists for the last 2 months. I see this as a very good news!
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The question now is, how to move that blue line back in the upward direction? Doing so in a bearish crypto market would be a very strong sign.
Even the stability we've seen is a good sign I think since SBD has steadily decreased in value over the past several months.
SBD is still worth too much
The next weeks may be crucial. And also the indicators we use. I can show other indicators that are not so positive :D
The bull tends to motivate some to write more. But it'd be awesome to see that ATH on this bearish market.
Just an idea:
Create a steemSTEM for discouraged people in which shorter and less scientific people could post and get smaller rewards. Small reward being 3% VP, medium being 5% and large being 10%. This would mean more voting which means more reading :(
Hence it's not a solution given the specifications at the time of the steemSTEM hiatus, but a thing to pay attention to in the future. I have talked about steemSTEM to everyone in my community, they all say they will try to write but nobody actually does. And when they see my blog (the usual "look what i am writing about", they are all saying the same thing "i could never write something like this". But they are just discouraged and in the economy for attention, the contests and challenges always win.
We need to have a broader talk about goals and organic growth, this time with some psychology insight. We are on a good track but we should be able to do more. I am still digesting solutions, I will try to come with a better idea.
So... you want us to work more? I am sorry but... not a good idea. I am only OK to work more for extremely good posts. For the passable ones, we have the small votes. Just tell your friends to target something smaller. This is a start. After some time, they may move to the larger votes :)
I already said it's not a solution. I am just giving you feedback from ~100 people :D
Don't shoot the messenger!I will come with better ideas, so far nothing else has hit me.
I don't shoot, I barely nicely react. The 100 people should learn to reach the 5% upvote as a started (pelase send them this :p). The gap is small.
If you have an answer, please share it :D
Some recent comment based initiatives may help, but those users wouldn't be included in these statistics. This is for author retention not necessarily user retention. ...
I would start with author retention, personally. This is where we can probably do something.
woosh
I am sure I said something you didn't know :D
Wow. This is a good representation of what has been happening. Masterpiece!
Good I don't know. It represents what I said it represents, with all the biases :)
Looking at persisting author graph, I'd say it hit an all time high in the beginning of this year and is rising again to that. And yes, we lost as many authors as new authors popped up. It is almost like playing a game of whack-a-mole, the more an old author goes away, a new one pops up :)
The flux is constant. This is already something. But as I said above, other indicators may give not so nice results.
Pretty incredible!
Statistics by itself is enough to get me excited, combined with a positive trend line is great to see
Let's see how we will resist to the lower and lower STEEM price. I hope we will! :)
I think many communities have a lot of value beyond what happens with STEEM. But yes I'm not opening coinmarketcap these days!
The nice point is that this brings a natural filter allowing to identify those who are here for the money :)
Let’s hope the trend will continuously moving up!
Yep! Let's hope :)