How did Obsidian 1.8.3 do on X?
Obsidian posted the Obsidian 1.8.3 launch from @obsdmd on Jan 30, 2025. The post has 139,683 views, 1,268 likes, 123 reposts, 40 quotes and 35 replies, an engagement rate of 1.05%. It ranks #1623 of the 2,981 launches Gridd tracks.
Obsidian 1.8.3 is now available to all for desktop and mobile! - Web viewer. New core plugin lets you open external links within Obsidian on desktop. This makes it easier to read linked content without leaving the app and improves multitasking for web research. The plugin can be enabled manually in settings. - Improved iCloud sync. Obsidian no longer waits to confirm that configuration files have synced. - New mobile onboarding. This guided flow helps new mobile users create and sync a vault. - New "Download attachments for current file" command. Downloads all externally embedded images and replaces the external links with internal embeds. A few notable improvements: - When modifying a numbered list, the numbers are now updated automatically. - Pressing Enter in a multi-line list item now continues the list properly. - New "Insert footnote" command. Footnote autocomplete now provides a fallback to create a new footnote if no match is found. - Tags view now includes search. - File Explorer now includes an option to automatically reveal the active file. - Outline now has an "Auto-scroll to current section" option. - Sync now has a new view option, "Hide my changes," which hides your own file changes in a shared Obsidian sync vault. - Recently used commands now appear at the top of the command palette. - "Search current file" search bar now displays the total number of results. - "Insert template" command now sorts templates by file path and displays folder names. - <img>, <video>, <source> and <audio> tags with relative src paths are now rendered in Live Preview and Reading mode. - Graph view no longer considers Canvas files as attachments. See the changelog for dozens more improvements and bug fixes.
- 79%the median launch177.5K median views
- #1623of the launches we trackout of 2,981
- 0.6xits own following221,455 followers
- Views
- 139.7K
- Likes
- 1.3K
- Reposts
- 123
- Quotes
- 40
- Replies
- 35
- Bookmarks
- 379
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 139.7K views would cost $14K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 7.2x what this post got, for about $25K.
The post reached about 0.6 views for every follower of @obsdmd.
What launched?
Obsidian released version 1.8.3 for desktop and mobile, adding a Web viewer core plugin for opening external links in the app and improved iCloud sync.
How does it compare with other launches?
Obsidian 1.8.3 has more views than 46% of the 2,981 launches Gridd tracks: 79% of the median launch's 177.5K views.
- Obsidian 1.8.3139.7K
- Median tracked launch177.5K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Obsidian 1.8.3 | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 139.7K | 177.5K |
| Engagement rate | 1.05% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 0.6 | 2.6 |
| Quote posts | 40 | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 27.1 | 13.7 |
Other Obsidian launches we track: Obsidian 1.12 (1.3M views), Obsidian Bases (391.6K views), Obsidian 1.13 (273.4K views), Obsidian 1.11 (192.8K views), Obsidian Community site (171.1K views), Obsidian Web Clipper 1.0 (169.6K views). All 20 Obsidian launches, or every productivity launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity launches | 209 | 82.1K | 1.7x | #72 |
| Accounts 100K to 1M followers | 973 | 241.4K | 58% | #599 |
| Video launch posts | 2,021 | 192K | 73% | #1140 |
| Every launch | 2,981 | 177.5K | 79% | #1623 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 221.5K followers, the post reached 0.6 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 100K to 1M followers reach a median of 0.9 times their following, so this one went about 67% as far as usual for its size. It ranks 599 of 973 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 40 quote posts, 2.9 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Obsidian 1.8.3 is now available to all for desktop and mobile!". The post runs 286 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192K views, against 142.1K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 187.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Thursday (UTC). Thursday launches have a median of 169.9K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 197.9K.
Every comparison is against the 2,981 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Obsidian?
- In its own words on X: "The free and flexible app for your private thoughts. For help and deeper discussions, join our community" Obsidian posted the Obsidian 1.8.3 launch from @obsdmd on Jan 30, 2025.
- How many views did Obsidian 1.8.3 get on X?
- 139,683 views. Obsidian posted it from @obsdmd on Jan 30, 2025, and the post has 1,268 likes, 123 reposts, 40 quotes, 35 replies and 379 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Obsidian 1.8.3 a big launch on X?
- It ranks #1623 of the 2,981 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 46% of them and 79% of the median launch's 177.5K views. Its engagement rate is 1.05%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 139.7K views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 139.7K views would cost $14K. Gridd guarantees one million views, 7.2x what this post got, for about $25K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/obsidian-1-8-3, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.