So now you're arguing your own personal preferences as a counter argument to my points about ATTENTION RETENTION.
WHATEVER YOU EXPECT OF A PLATFORM is not relevant to the previous discussion.
This discussion is now pointless because I really don't care to gather a statistical database on how each individual likes things.
I speak from the viewpoint of a broad understanding of the characteristics of a system and how THE SYSTEM interacts with TRAFFIC from all types of users. Which is why ATTENTION RETENTION is such an important measure.
You're a fool to make the claim "readers doesn't equal growth" ... FOR WHO IS THE CONTENT FOR THEN?
Oh that's right...
ON HIVE... IT'S FOR AUTO VOTES.
GREAT SYSTEM.
ATTENTION RETENTION is not an important measure on Web 3.0. IF an account is not transacting then it adds nothing of value to the platform. Even if they are spending their whole time reading here if they do not transact it does not matter.
I repeat, ATTENTION RETENTION does not matter, if the user does not transact on the blockchain. WEB TRAFFIC does not matter if it does not end up in a transaction on the blockchain.
Those measures are important for a web 2.0 site, but not a web 3.0 system. YOU are thinking with a web 2.0 mindset, on a web 3.0 platform. THAT is your problem.
ATTENTION RETENTION and TRAFFIC are important measures to Advertisers on WEB 2.0. They are the revenue stream of a website, that is the reason why they are important on Web 2.0.
There are no advertisers on HIVE, so those measures are unimportant. And you have trouble understanding basic if statements it seems like. IF a user only reads and does not transact they do not matter, what matters if they read and transact. SEE there is a whole fucking difference there. THAT is the important measure, that is how you measure if the platform is growing.
A user not transacting means; they do not vote, they do not comment, they do not engage in any way with the blockchain, they just read. When you are voting it is a transaction, when you comment it is a transaction, when you post it is a transaction.
Tell me, if a person opens up peakd every day, reads tons of posts every day but never opens a wallet, do they add value to the platform?
ATTENTION RETENTION means time spent on the site, stop trying to change its meaning to whatever you like it to be.
USER RETENTION and ATTENTION RETENTION are two different things, you do not even know the correct terminology, and it is clear you have not seen the stats as Hive is growing. The number of posts and comments are increasing, the number of votes is increasing and the number of new accounts created is increasing.
You say it is shrinking but the stats say otherwise.
I am not clutching at straws, you are making up your own terminology and then try to explain it as if everyone else uses it like that.
ATTENTION RETENTION: How much time a user spends on a site before closing it.
USER RETENTION: How likely a user to return to the site.
USER CONVERSION: How likely a user will create an account
A retained user still does have an attention retention rate.
So you are moving the goal post from Hive not growing to Hive not retaining enough users from western countries.
Arguing with you is just like arguing with a 5-year-old, you move your goalposts every time. You assign your own meanings to suit your needs and to look like you are right. You changed your point from medium.com and its attention retention to the system fails if it can't convert traffic/page views effectively.
Anyway, I am done arguing with you, because there is nothing to be gained from arguing with someone who does not know how to argue.