Nice boost, Around that time you saw an increase was when Google was updating their algo which now pulls headlines from H1 tags on blog sites. Could very well be the reason why we saw a little bit of a bump as I know many have started using those H1 tags etc over the mark up language. Lots of growth but still so much more to go.
Does it still not make sense to run some type of ad system on Hive itself to generate revenue to pay for server costs etc?
Good to know, thanks!
I don't think so, because I think the work involved could easily match the revenue. Once the site gets big enough, it could make economic sense then.
But I really don't think ads should be Hive.blog's future: I hope to break away from such economic concepts entirely. But this is an issue that is up to each frontend operator to decide for themselves.