Steem stats: number of active users, and number of posts per day (part II)

Happy New Year Steemians!

At the end of October 2018, I looked at some user and post statistics for steem (link). Here is a quick update on those charts.

In the previous post, I mentioned that the number of posts and authors had been steadily declining since the beginning of the year. Both look a bit stabler at the moment:

Perhaps we'll see an uptick in 2019? The average number of posts per user seems to be growing a bit, even though the exchange rate has dropped by more than half since October:

(Source: SteemTool)