Time for yet another brief monthly overview of the local board activity, and this time few days earlier than usual. Charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr
Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja
Ninjastic.space which I suggest to check if you want more in depth overview of your (or any other) local board.
Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards, with the hope that changes in the future.
Post activity per local board during March 2024During the previous month, 20804 posts were made across 18 local boards/communities that are part of this overview, which is a decent increase (~8%) compared to the month before. The Russian board remained the most active one despite the decrease, while a few other very active boards like Turkish and Nigerian had an increase, which then resulted in a somewhat higher number of posts overall.
Unfortunately, the numbers for the Romanian, Greek, and Polish boards remained pretty similar to the previous months, while the Bengali numbers also keep going down month after month. I do hope they reverse this trend as it will get harder for them to get local board if numbers keep going down.
Local boards post raceCourtesy of bitmover
Active members per local board during March 2024In the last month, 1553 members wrote at least 1 post in one of the local boards, which makes it an increase compared to February numbers (~5%). Increase makes sense, as there was an increase in the amount of posts as well. As with posts, Russian board has by far the most active members, but Nigerian, Indonesian and German numbers are pretty good as well. On the bottom, we have the same names as in posts chart and I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Local board members per amount of posts during March 2024When it comes to the members who wrote only 1 post, Indian board is leader, with 52% of such members, followed by Romanian (46%) and Spanish (45%). At the same time, Portuguese had only 16% of such members, followed by Pakistan and Croatian local boards that both had 17%.
In the 2-9 posts bracket, Polish and Greek boards are leader with exactly 50% of those members, followed by Russian local board that had 44%. When it comes to the lowest percentage in that bracket, Pakistan is leader with 23%, followed by Indian (31%) and Arabic (32%) local boards.
Regarding the 10+ posts bracket, Pakistan is leader with a huge 60%, followed by Indonesian (44%) and Portuguese (42%) local boards. At the same time, Benagli had only 16% of such members, while Polish and Indian local boards at 17% are not much better either.
Merit shared per local board during March 2024When I saw the increase in the number of posts, I hoped the same thing happened with merit as well, and indeed it did; during March, 7058 merits were shared across local boards that are part of the overview, which is a very noticeable ~14% increase compared to February's numbers (6180). This happened mainly due to an increase in the Russian, German, and Spanish local boards. I am especially surprised by the former numbers as they lost one of the big merit sources some time ago, but I guess they got a replacement.
At the bottom, it's occupied by the usual suspects, with the Greek board appearing again on this chart. In the previous month, they didn't share any merit at all, so you can say that they had a 100% increase.
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Merit/Post ratio per local board during March 2024Once again Spanish local board is at the top of the merit/post chart, ands this time with even bigger ratio, followed once again by Arabic board while French end up at (for them) unusually high 3rd spot. With only 1 merit shared, no wonder that Greek board is dead last, while Pilipinas is once again close to the bottom with also pretty low merit/post ratio.
One thing that is noticeable is that majority of boards have higher 12 monnth ratio than of the last month which is a not a good sign imho, and its been like that for some time now.
Merit senders and receivers per local board during March 2024Since there was a pretty big increase in the amount of merit shared, no wonder that same thing happened with number of merit senders and receivers; during March 525 sent merit while 629 received which is an increase compared to February numbers (503/566).
One thing that is interesting on this chart is that Russian board is not the leader when it comes to merit senders despite sending x3-x4 more merit than sone of the local boards like Nigerian and Indonesian that beat them in that metric.
Percentage of merited posts across local boards during March 2024Last month's average across 18 local boards was 17.1% of posts that received merit, which is very similar to the period before (17.3%). Once again, the Spanish local board has the highest percentage of merited posts, with the Romanian board once again in second place, and this time, the Arabic board ends up in the top 3 with a pretty high 30%.
Considering the fact that only 1 post in the Greek local board received merit, it's no wonder that they are dead last in this metric as well. However, Indian, Pilipinas (and even Turkish) are not much better either
Merit per transaction across local boards during March 2024And the last in this series of charts, merit per transaction. Despite having a pretty low merit/post ratio and generally low amount of merited posts, Indian local board is the leader in this category with very high 2.5 merit per transaction, leaving Spanish and French local boards behind that both had 2.3 merit per transaction.
The most active members per local board during March 2024Last but not the least, list of top 10 most active members across 18 local boards, that are most responsible for keeping their boards alive. Once again mandown from Turkish local board is the most active local members, and this time followed by 2 more members of the same board while the name we used to see at the top (joker_josue) this time ended as 4th most active local board members. Kudos guys and keep up!
