Nostr Web Client

Take a look at Nostr retention https://stats.nostr.band/#retention_curves

I've added a couple more graphs to Nostr stats page, and the goal is to try to understand how well Nostr ecosystem retains users.

The graphs show the % of pubkeys that are still writing events after X (up to 30) days after signup (first event). Separate lines are for each monthly cohort of users to see the dynamics.

I don't have much experience analyzing retention, but here is my take on these numbers.

Good news: the curves don't head to 0 - they stabilize after 10-20 days, some some fraction of users does stick.

Bad news: even among high-quality users that got significant engagement from community only 10-15% stick around.

And Match was weird, I guess due to Nostrica.

Do you find this useful?

What else should we measure to go from 'this is nostr retention' to 'here are potential causes of good retention'?

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eykd 2y ago

Cohort analysis like you're doing there can be super useful for building communities, according to my own research and study.

Especially you want to find ways to expose trends in disengagement: at what point do most folks drop out? # of contributions? # of days? Is there a threshold of responses from other members below which they do out?

Knowing these trends gives the community useful information to tune new member engagement efforts.

It would be helpful to know something about what kinds of content keeps new members around, both posting and following. There's a lot of Bitcoin content here obv. Are newcomers starved for other kinds, and going back to greener pastures?

It'd be interesting to see if interaction with this new #grownostr content effort provides any lift in long term engagement.

Moss 2y ago

Great work, bro , I was surprised to see the new retention statistics tonight

Heri Sim 2y ago

We could do better