I'm trying not to spend too much time just looking at numbers. There's a lot going on that's positive for Steem, but not necessarily for Steemit. Lot of people have a hard time separating the two.
What would make a really interesting awareness graph would be the over time cumulative monthly search results for each dapp running on the Steem blockchain. As in results for "Steemit+Dtube+SteemMonsters+Busy.org...." to see how much attention we are really generating.
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That's a good point, Alexa search and Goggle trends could tell a whole new story by comparing the dApps. Aren't you glad that Steem isn't all about Steemit... In fact, it would probably be good for Steemit's homepage to showcase top dApps so new users would realize they have a lot of options :D
I've suggested a few times that there should be another drop-down menu next to "rewards" in the navigation bar where it brings down the major dApps with direct links... pretty much fell on deaf ears and was met with excuses about "favoritism" and what have you.
Seems to me the PLUS would be to show that all the parts are working TOGETHER and there's a COMMUNITY here...
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