Time has come for yet another brief monthly overview of the local boards activity, and yet again in a reasonable time frame (*flex* ). All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr
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Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards and that's something that I hope will change sooner than later.
Post activity per local board during September 2023During above mentioned period, 18741 posts were made across 18 local boards and it was a solid ~5% increase compared to August during which 17919 posts were written. Since summer is behind us and people tend to spend more time in hiouse, I hope that number will go up in future months.
When it comes to the most active boards, Russian remain the most active one with yet again more than 6,000 posts, followed by Turkish (2275) and Nigerian local board that had its all time high of 1898 posts and its just a matter of time before they overtage Turkish board while Indonesian (1465) and Portuguese (1452) close the top 5. For the first time since I am making these overviews German board didn't finish in top 5 and they unfortunately continue their activity decline.
At the bottom we can see the usual names and unfortunately and while Greek and Romanian barely improved compared to last month, Polish board numbers went down dramatically, from 97 in August to 32 in September. I do hope that its just a temporrary slump and that they recover soon.
Local Board post raceAnimated local board post race chart, courtesy of bitmover
Number of active members per local board during September 2023During last month, 1355 members wrote at least one post in one of the local boards which is a slight decrease compared to month before that had 1403 active members. Since all those who wrote at least 1 post counts, its normal to have fluctuations on the monthly basis.
Once again Russian board had by far the most active members, followed by Nigerian, Indonesian, German and Turkish board. Its really interesting to see how in this rregard Nigerian board keeps growing as only few months ago they had less than 90 and now its already at 140+ with tendency to grow further.
Local board members per amount of posts during September 2023When it comes to members who wrote only 1 post during September, Greek has the highest percentage of those (57%), followed by Arabic (41%) and Polish (40%) local boards. At the same time, Portuguese has the loweet percentage of such members (13%), followed by Nigerian (14%) and Pilipinas (19%) local boards.
In the 2-9 posts bracket Romanian board is leadder with 60%, while Indian (50% and German (48%) are at the 2nd and 3rd spot. Meanwhile, Croatian board has the lowest percentage of such members (22%), followed by Pakistan (26%) and Turkish (28%) local boards.
Turkish local board boasts with the highest percentage of members who wrote at least 10 posts (50%), followed by Portuguese (48%) and Nigerian (46%) local boards. On the other hand, Greek board has the lowest percentage of such members (14%), followed by Indian (19%) and Romanian & Polish board that both had 20% of such members.
Merit shared per local board during September 2023During above mentioned period 9835 merit was shared across 18 local boards which is an increase compared with August during which that number was noticeably smaller (8360). Russian board with 2137 shared merit took the first place from German who finished 2nd with an excellent 1813 merits shared that is even higher than their previous month number. This month we have a surprise at the 3rd spot, Nigerian board that had 1148 merits shared which is by far their best result yet. Since they only have (afaik) 1 merit sourse, this growth is mainly caused by an external merit sources that helped them greatly and I do hope will continue to do the same.
As it was with post chart, we have the usual names at the bottom part of this one as well, but until they increase their post activity its not realistic to expect that their number of merits shared will increase (at least not significantly).
Merit senders and receivers per local board during September 2023As always, pretty straighforward chart that follows amount of merit shared (more or less), with the standard exceptions like Pilipinas and Nigerian local boards and no we have Turks joned as well which might be one of the indications that they could use more merit sources.
Merit/Post ratio per local board for September 2023Once again German local board is at the top with a very good 1.28 merits per post, followed by Arabic board that is usually at the top, and another standrad names, Italian. At the bottom we have Greek locall board whose very low ratio is not a surprise due lack of activity, but imho Pilipinas should be much higher and it would be great if other external merit sources could help them the way they are helping some other local boards.
Percentage of merited posts across local boards during September 2023This is one of the new charts that shows the percentage of merited posts per local board and difference between boards is staggering as for example in Romanian board almost every 2nd post got merited (41%), while in Pilipinas every ~15th post got merited. Then again, less active boards like Romanian could have such a high percentage, but Pilipinas is on par with some of the lowest quality parts of the forum like Off Topic and i seriously doubt they have such a low quality of posts.
Merit per transaction ratio across local boards during September 2023And the last in this series of charts, merit/tx ratio which shows how members in local boards have very different merit habits. Just keep in mind that less active boards could have very high numbers, like Polish local board for example while next month that ratio could be much lower meaning amplitudes are big.
The most active members per local board during September 2023And for the end of this month's (not so) brief local board overview, its time to mention top 10 members across 18 local boards. joker_josue regained the title of the most active local board spammer (
) after that Russian troll seemingly disappeared this month, followed by Smartprofit who wrote 276 posts and Ratimov with 244 posts who are both from Russian local board. GG!
