Topic: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity - page 3. (Read 21132 times)

I have overthrown our Croatian posting king and beaten him by a big margin. I think this is only the second time that my name is on top of the posting charts.
@Rikafip we had the exact same post count last month. But it doesn't matter, I am celebrating the 1st place.

This is me now:

These guys on the Russian board are fighting at the top. 

But, thankfully, so as not to lose the motivation to keep posting. Still, I think it could be better.


@Rikafip thanks for your data compilation.

Congrats Rikafip!!

Here you go, my updated race!!


https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/

Chart fans rejoice, time for yet another brief monthly overview of the local boards activity, and as promised a little bit earlier than last month.   All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space while images are uploaded via TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk made by @joker_josue.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards yet and that's something that I hope will change soon.

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Post activity per local board during August 2024

During August, 13150 posts were written across local boards which is a very slight increase compared to July's numbers (13009). Increase is negligent, but after a few months of decline any increase is a good sign and I hope it will continue now that summer is coming to an end.

Majority of local boards remained with relatively similar activity as month before, with the Nigerian board sticking out, unfortunately due decrease of activity that is going on for a couple of months. At the beginning of the year we were speculating whether they gonna overtake Russian, while now they dropped to the 6th place. Let's hope that's just temporary and that they will recover in the upcoming months.

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Local boards post race

Courtesy of bitmover

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Local Board post race

Animated local board post race chart, courtesy of bitmover

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Active members per local board during August 2024

In the above mentioned period, 1268 members wrote at least 1 post in one of the local boards, which is a decrease compared to July (1342). This decrease may be surprising since number of posts even went up a little bit, but since its enough to write 1 pots to be counted in this chart, these kind of changes are normal.

Once again Russian board has by far the most active members, followed by Nigerian and Indonesian local board. Even though Nigerian activity keep going down a lot, their number of active members doesn;t go down as much, which is a very good thing and I hope it remains that way.

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Local board members per amount of posts during August 2024

When it comes to the percentage of members who wrote only 1 post in their board during August, Arabic local board is rhe leader with exactly 50%, followed by Indian (47%) and Croatian (44%) local boards. At the same time, Pilipinas board hads only 21%, followed by Nigerian (24%) and Indonesian (25%) local boards.

Regarding the 2-9 posts bracket, Polish board is the leader with 63%, followed by Pilipinas (57%) and Nigerian (54%) locals. Regarding the locals with lowest percentage of members in that bracket, Portuguese local had only 15% of those members, followed by Croatian (25%) and Arabic (23%) local boards.

In the 10+ posts bracket, Greek is the leader with 67%, followed by Portuguese (50%) and Pakistan & Italian local boards that both had 36%. At the same time, Indian local had only 10% of such members, followed by Bengali (16%) and Romanian (17%) local boards.

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Merit shared per local board during August 2024

During last month, 6066 merit was sent across local boards that are part of this overview which is a slight increase compared to month before (5919) and is consistent with a post number increase.

As in all other charts, Russian local board dominates here as well, followed by Indonesian, Nigerian and Italian local boards that are far behind. Uusal names are at the bottom as well, and while majority of them have very low post activity so low amount of merit is not a surprise, Pilipinas board is still decently active while still having a very low number of merit sent.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board during August 2024

Last month's merit/post average across local boards was 0.5 which is a slight decrease compared to month before numbers (0.52). In the last few months we had local boards sticking out from the others, while during August, merit per post ratio was more in line with 12 month average. More or less, as Spanish board 12 month average is much higher than during last month, which was high anyway and we have a few local like French, German and Indian whose ratio went down significantly during last month. Hopefully that's just an anomaly and they will be back with their usual numbers.

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Percentage of merited posts across local boards during August 2024

Once again Romanian board remained the leader in this category, followed by Spanish and Italian locals that are also usually among the local boards with the highest percentage of merited posts. Similar situation is at the bottom as well, with the usual names occupying left side of the chart.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during August 2024

During last month 422 members sent and 554 received merit which is somewhat similar to previous month's numbers (430/513). Just a reminder that order of local boards is set according to the amount of merit sent.

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Merit per transaction across local boards during August 2024

Last but not the least in this series of charts, merit per transaction which shows how different each board is when it comes to merit sharing habits (which can also be affected by the amount of quality posts that each board has during certain month).

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The most active members per local board during August 2024

And for the end of the overview, list of the most active members per local board. This time top two members come from the Russian local: Nuburian with 295 and Bits.media with 277 posts while 3rd spot is reserved for a familar name, joker_josue, who wrote 226 posts in his Portuguese board. GG guys, keep it up!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Nuburian [295]	|	1. Lakai01 [121]	|	1. mandown [143]	|	1. babo [134]	|	1. joker_josue [226]	|	1. famososMuertos [52]	|
2. Bits.media [277]	|	2. Real-Duke [82]	|	2. ajanwalker [89]	|	2. fillippone [80]	|	2. sabotag3x [157]	|	2. Hispo [46]	|
3. klarki [184]	|	3. cygan [68]	|	3. execijutiere [76]	|	3. Ale88 [77]	|	3. Paredao [121]	|	3. Porfirii [32]	|
4. jokers10 [169]	|	4. MinoRaiola [67]	|	4. MK-74 [53]	|	4. Sg4j1n3ll0 [64]	|	4. bitmover [117]	|	4. d5000 [32]	|
5. Julien_Olynpic [150]	|	5. bullrun2024bro [66]	|	5. Silence Scream [53]	|	5. giammangiato [47]	|	5. rdluffy [77]	|	5. seoincorporation [30]	|
6. Alex077 [119]	|	6. Unknown01 [53]	|	6. W Jr. [51]	|	6. bastisisca [45]	|	6. Disruptivas [71]	|	6. Don Pedro Dinero [22]	|
7. Etranger [101]	|	7. 5tift [51]	|	7. RaltcoinsB [50]	|	7. bitbollo [36]	|	7. Pumared [48]	|	7. darxiaomi [16]	|
8. Numeral [97]	|	8. hawer357 [49]	|	8. LGD2Business [49]	|	8. giorgione [35]	|	8. alegotardo [47]	|	8. orionshneider [12]	|
9. Smartprofit [93]	|	9. Buchi-88 [47]	|	9. Ondekinecakabilirim [47]	|	9. rapsodian1213 [22]	|	9. criptoevangelista [45]	|	9. darbitmobilerecovery [9]	|
10. Snork1979 [93]	|	10. Koal-84 [46]	|	10. karabiber [45]	|	10. sp4rhawk [20]	|	10. tg88 [45]	|	10. MA40 [7]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Chikito [109]	|	1. patrickus [68]	|	1. bhadz [58]	|	1. Pmalek [22]	|	1. Charles-Tim [35]	|	1. khaled0111 [45]	|
2. Husna QA [69]	|	2. G.Seed [40]	|	2. PX-Z [27]	|	2. Rikafip [22]	|	2. Odogwu-Blockchain [29]	|	2. yhiaali3 [23]	|
3. abhiseshakana [47]	|	3. Saint-loup [34]	|	3. Peanutswar [27]	|	3. examplens [15]	|	3. CryptopreneurBrainboss [23]	|	3. Kavelj22 [18]	|
4. joniboini [45]	|	4. paid2 [23]	|	4. Mr. Magkaisa [21]	|	4. Trofo [11]	|	4. Obari [22]	|	4. OmegaStarScream [13]	|
5. punk.zink [42]	|	5. Danydee [20]	|	5. xLays [19]	|	5. ovcijisir [11]	|	5. Gooner0 [21]	|	5. GxSTxV [10]	|
6. mu_enrico [31]	|	6. Halab [15]	|	6. Text [17]	|	6. dkbit98 [8]	|	6. HajiBagi [17]	|	6. albon [10]	|
7. Luzin [30]	|	7. Jer0mFR [12]	|	7. arwin100 [17]	|	7. slackovic [8]	|	7. Lida93 [17]	|	7. hugeblack [10]	|
8. Pandorak [30]	|	8. GrosWesh [8]	|	8. tech30338 [14]	|	8. cryptofrka [7]	|	8. CryptoHeadlineNews [16]	|	8. ARTOIS [9]	|
9. TelolettOm [26]	|	9. oscar2000 [8]	|	9. robelneo [13]	|	9. Lunorael [2]	|	9. DubemIfedigbo001 [16]	|	9. Nalain420 [8]	|
10. ringgo96 [25]	|	10. Plug-fr [5]	|	10. stafstor [11]	|	10. EXMON [1]	|	10. I_Anime [16]	|	10. Boozhe [4]	|

Polish	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Romanian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. cygan [8]	|	1. pakhitheboss [20]	|	1. cryptosize [16]	|	1. GazetaBitcoin [23]	|	1. ZAINmalik75 [41]	|	1. Learn Bitcoin [19]	|
2. wwzsocki [8]	|	2. Bitcoin Smith [13]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [11]	|	2. Sandublegia [8]	|	2. JunaidAzizi [32]	|	2. Crypto Library [14]	|
3. stafstor [4]	|	3. JSRAW [9]	|	3. nickelia1 [1]	|	3. NeuroticFish [6]	|	3. Cheema02 [28]	|	3. HelliumZ [13]	|
4. pawel7777 [2]	|	4. memehunter [6]	|		|	4. Rizzrack [6]	|	4. Sayeds56 [26]	|	4. LDL [13]	|
5. wargo [2]	|	5. avikz [5]	|		|	5. erectilenovuse [1]	|	5. UmerIdrees [24]	|	5. Z_MBFM [10]	|
6. EXMON [1]	|	6. TheUltraElite [4]	|		|	6. kodehash [1]	|	6. Hamza2424 [20]	|	6. Ricardo11 [8]	|
7. anarkiboy [1]	|	7. pawanjain [4]	|		|		|	7. ThemePen [20]	|	7. Morshedbns [7]	|
8. pbies [1]	|	8. LalitM123 [3]	|		|		|	8. Gladitorcomeback [18]	|	8. Nothingtodo [6]	|
	|	9. Krishna1942 [2]	|		|		|	9. Rustam Meraj [17]	|	9. Wonder Work [6]	|
	|	10. nickelia1 [2]	|		|		|	10. Farhan99 [16]	|	10. Bd officer [5]	|

I believe this is entirely happening due to the reason we ran out of interesting topics to make it as interesting discussions and other reason could be people moved to place like Reddit (situation of Indian board) and this has nothing to do with the market trend of bitcoin like in the past history.

So all we can do is now hope that bull season will bring more new people and a lot of naive questions to answer.

I thought it was pretty obvious that there is a decline in local board activity, which also coincides with a decline in overall forum activity. Of course, some boards are more affected than others, but essentially all are experiencing a downturn, including those that showed strong growth not too long ago, like the Nigerian board, for example.

In a few months (in January) I will publish a yearly overview of local board activity (as I did in the last two years) which will make it easier to see how big the decrease is compared to the previous year.

Sorry for being lazy and not running the numbers myself (I might try do so if I don't get an answer), but has anyone checked what the long-term trend for the local boards (considering all of them) is? i.e. Do we have a tendency of people moving away from local sub-forums towards the general, English-speaking ones, or maybe it's the opposite?
I think the activity itself (i.e. number of posts or number of active users) might not be enough to tell, as the forum as a whole noted a long-term drop in activity.

Yeah that's bascially what happened in our local too; combination of summer vacation and few (once very active) members going afk.


Nah, its not his fault, in 99.99% of the cases he updated Merit Dashboard in time. It is me who is slacking. 


Nope. I am not as eager as I was back in 2020 when I started these overviews. 

Publishing the charts within the month is okay, I guess. Since you have to wait for DdmrDdmr's merit dashboard data to compile your report, we cannot blame you for being late. But can we expect Rikafip to pester DdmrDdmr again?  . If the cycle of being late continues and we depend on one another to publish our report, there will be a two-month gap. Imagine DdmrDdmr take the first two weeks to update his Dashboard, then you take another two weeks to make the chart, and then bitmover will take another two weeks to post the local board race  , and then I will take another two weeks to write a post here, hahaha. Please don't take it seriously, though. I hope you spent your vacation well, by the way.

I was on holiday and spend some time in other sections i my life, so i has written less as normal. I think if that is also a topic from some other core member here in germany.

 

Best regards and happy mining,
Willi

There are probably a few more reasons for the drop of activity in the german section but these are some of my thoughts:

- June - August is vacation time

- a few members who wrote a lot in the past left us some time ago, partly because of disputes with other participants from our local board...

And further more there is also the fact that two of our biggest merit sources have become more or less inactive lately
- @qwk is online from time to time but unfortunately no longer distributes any of his Merits.
- @1miau has not been online for about 6 weeks now. Hopefully everything is fine with him and he only take a longer break!
Btw both have also written a lot of posts while they where more active

As I said before these are just a few reasons that are going through my head right now.

No worries, I know a thing or two about being late. 


I am usually late simply because I’m lazy, but this time I couldn’t publish in the first week even if I wanted to as DdmrDdmr was a bit late with the Merit Dashboard update and I can’t make this overview without his invaluable tool.


I used to be like that as well, publishing this overview as soon as possible, even pestering DdmrDdmr about when he would update the Merit Dashboard. But somewhere along the way, I started slacking and procrastinating. I plan to publish last month's overview much sooner, though.


The drop in activity on the German board is noticeable, but it only takes a few core members going AFK to dramatically affect the local board. The same thing happened on my local board too, as we lost two core members in the last year or so. Anyway, it would be interesting to hear from someone in the German local board about what led to this drop.

It really catches my attention not only how the Russian board continues to reign as the most active local section of the forum, but also how the german section seems to have fallen from the second place to not even being in the top three anymore, I recall a couple of years ago both the Russian and German section were pretty close to one another.
what could have happened within the Bitcoin community in Germany for them not to be as interested in participating here in the forum as they used to?  

On a different note, my local Spanish section continues to be relatively irrelevant when compared to the Russian section of the forum. It is remarkable how small we are, when there are so many people interested in Bitcoin/alternative currencies in LatinAmerica...

Glad to see there are more Nigerians participating around, by the way. At this point, I would dare to say Bitcoin has become a de facto currency of free circulation in Nigeria.

This proves that you can publish your chart in the first week of each month as soon as DdmrDdmr update his merit dashboard  . This is not a complaint, but you usually start your post by apologizing for the delay. I don't think you should be sorry because you have been doing it for a long time, and I know you had to spend a lot of your working hours sitting in front of your computer to complete these impressive statistics. All I can do is appreciate your work.

Some specific community members already publish their community charts in the first week. But we always love to see the comparison between all the local boards to understand how we are doing. I thought only our local thread saw the activity decrease in the last months. But it seems like the situation is also almost the same in other local boards.

sorry for the delay Rikafip

here you go, the local boards race!



https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/

Reading takes work and forces you to use your brain more actively. 

Without a doubt, this type of forum is one of the best ways to keep information organized and with reliable content about Bitcoin.

Yes you're right
We've discussed it on our local board once, because there were times when we had even fewer active users 
The best explanation was the use of other social networks like tik tok, instagram, facebook etc

I've already recommended the forum to people close to me, but it's hard for them to stay here, I think they don't have the patience to read a lot of texts and they're not used to using a forum
It's hard to compete with videos that are only a few minutes long and full of visual stimulation

But in my opinion nothing is better and more organized than the forum, and we still have reliable sources

I guess people from these countries are using some other platforms to talk about bitcoin and same thing can be said about other local boards like Spanish and French and then there are completely dead board from countries with big population like Chine, Japan, Korea etc.

Thanks again Rikafip 
I always spend some time reading the charts you make and compare them with the other months and do some analysis myself

Everyone has already talked about Nigeria, but it's amazing to notice their greater participation, not only in the forum, but in other social networks in general, I also use X a lot, and the participation of Nigerians is remarkable
Some of the crypto users I follow are Nigerian, especially in the airdrops we hunt together

I'm also surprised to realize that on the Portuguese board we only have 30 active users, when all together (Brazil and Portugal) there are around 225 million people

Hehe, we can say with time maybe before next year, just that only few of us post in the local board most people has been complaining about lack of merits so their interest is gradually declining from local board, they focused on English board to see the possible assistance for their growth since the allocated merits isn't going way far more better. The population is also increasing and nearly almost every day we do have new sign up, sometimes they are people who puts more efforts in making the board more active and lively.