And in the last week we have gained 22 minnows and 7 dolphins.
I know what the graphs show. Less votes means the active userbase goes down. To be expected with lower prices.
I don't know if anyone who uses their downvotes but not their upvotes.
Contests are less popular - because a 5 steem reward in the past was more than a dollar. Again, related more to price than anything else.
The changes of the hardfork are working, it just needed some time. Yes, some people left because of fud beforehand. Those kids out on the better opportunities now. Curangel alone supports 100 authors a day with votes between $1 and $3. Our voting power is consistently around 99%. Not because we wouldn't use them, but because we use them efficiently to give as much as possible to authors.
The distribution improved a lot, the upper end gets less and the lower end gets more. You haven't been on the lower end when you didn't have to fight to get over a few cents obviously.
It's all a matter of perspective.