OCD Communities Incubation Program - Update #5

Hey everyone! Team OCD brings you another update on our Community Incubation Program which has been running for some time now and we've seen some good results so far. Community leaders/moderators continue to share posts in our discord for some added curation, and we've also noticed some growth with respect to subscriber count and engagement in these communities. We also plan to conduct some contests in future to further boost engagement in smaller communities and give them added visibility. In our last post, we added 1 new community and today we bring you some additional stats and updates.

Our aim is to support communities, help them grow and allow users posting on genre specific topics find the right community spaces to interact with like-minded individuals, and gain through the focused curation done by community leaders.

If you've started new and unique genre-specific community that has the potential to raise a lot of activity and doesn't exist yet, feel free to apply for our incubation program - either by writing in the comment section or contacting us on our Discord in the community-incubation channel. You can get more info about the program here.

Without further wait, below we give you details on the subscriber growth as well as the new communities who've joined us...

• Alien Art Hive - @juliakponsford - 1012 subs -> 1042 subs
• Amazing Nature - @adalger - 1386 subs -> 1457 subs
• Beer - @hive-187719 - 575 subs -> 589 subs
• Build-it - @build-it - @build-it.daily (for reports) - 490 subs -> 540 subs
• ecoTrain - @ecotrain - 959 -> 996 subs
• Feathered Friends - @hive-106444 - 602 subs -> 624 subs
• Fungi Lovers - @hive-166168 - 266 subs -> 278 subs
• Haveyoubeenhere - @pinmapple - 620 subs -> 689 subs
• Hive Gaming - @hivegc - 3069 subs -> 3161 subs
• Hive Hustlers - @hivehustlers 281 subs -> 284 subs
• Hive Open Mic - 208 subs -> 213 subs
• Home Edders - @homeedders - 123 subs -> 135 subs
• Lightpainters United - @lightpaintershub - 331 subs -> 339 subs
• Manipulation Station - @hive-122516 - 89 subs -> 89 subs
• Natural Medicine - @naturalmedicine - 2110 subs -> 2166 subs
• Needle Work Monday - @needleworkmonday - 341 subs -> 357 subs
• On Chain Art - @onchainart - 2549 subs -> 2632 subs
• Photography Lovers - @hive-194913 - 2136 subs -> 2245 subs
• Pixel Art - @kristyglas - 197 subs -> 221 subs
• Skate Hive - @skatehive - 177 subs -> 183 subs
• Sports Talk Social - 717 subs -> 739 subs
• StemSocial - 1016 subs -> 1051 subs
• Stock images - @hive-118554 - 161 subs -> 204 subs
• The Anime Realm - @dlstudios - 75 subs -> 94 subs
• The Ink Well - @theinkwell - 870 subs -> 899 subs
• Vimm - 342 subs -> 349 subs

Most communities seem to be doing pretty well, and people are certainly checking them out as they explore diverse topics and contribute to interesting conversations across hive. In terms of engagement, communities like Feathered Friends, Hive Gaming and On Chain Art registered over 1k interactions. Gaming, Photography and Art are popular topics that generate a lot of interaction and engagement. What is the one new community that you found interesting? - we'd love to know in comments.

New additions:

We'd like to welcome 3 new communities into the program!

• Fascinating Insects - 793 subs
• Programming - 86 subs
• ReggaeJAHM - 114 subs

Head over to Fascinating Insects to get to know arthropods through pictures or to learn some cool new insect related facts. For all things about software development, check out Programming. And ReggaeJAHM is a place for Reggae Culture and IRIE vibes.

We're still waiting on some communities to give their info. The communities listed below can join our Discord to get in touch with us for onboarding into the program!

• dSound
• Foodies Bee Hive

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Here are some graphs provided by @dalz of the subscriber growth divided between the smaller sub count communities and the bigger ones:

He'll be updating these charts monthly and it's always interesting to see some upward movement in subscriber trends and friendly competition between communities to attract more users which helps in the overall growth/reach of hive :)

Here are also some statistics provided by @dalz of the cumulative HP subscribing to each community under our incubation:

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We're looking forward to adding more communities focusing on different subjects to our incubation program, and helping them grow with curation/delegations.

These posts aim to highlight the communities as well as their curation accounts that post the curation reports, and if you find a community interesting, do feel free to have a look around/subscribe.

The community moderators/curators are doing a great job trying to onboard and help new users as well as highlighting great content for curation. It's important that users find the right communities and subscribe to those that interest them. Thanks for reading!

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We would appreciate it if you want to delegate to @ocdb and earn some daily returns with a low fee which can be tracked on our website and vote for our witness if you appreciate what we're doing on Hive.

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Have you stumbled upon some new communities that are unique to the ones above and would like to see them get supported? Feel free to mention them here in the comments or join us on Discord and talk about it there in the #community-incubation channel! Please note that this is only for unique niches/genres of communities, nothing "general original content" or country/language based.