As I promised few days ago, here is the monthly overview of the local boards activity for June 2022. As always, all charts and table were made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.
Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards but are included anyway, with the hope that at least some of them will get the local board.
Post activity per local board during June 2022Negative trend continues: during June 16241 posts were made across all local boards which is ~6% decrease compared to May 2022 during which 17262 posts were written. This drop doesn't look big on its own, but since this is going on month after month, it all adds up and makes a big difference from a year ago. Its also worth to mention that majoritfy of that drops comes from two most active local boards, Russian and Turkish while majority of other either stayed similar or even increased the post amount, like Italian and Croatian.
Regarding the most active boards, no changes there; Russian board was by far the most active one followed by Turkish even though both of those local boards experienced significant drops, followed by German, Portuguese and Indonesian. No changes at the bottom as well, with pretty much standard names.
Number of active members per local board during June 2022Since there was a drop in amount of posts, no surprise that there was a drop in number of active users; during June there were 1214 members who wrote at least 1 post in any of the local boards, which is a 10% drop compared to May 2022 and 1352 active members. Basically all boards had less active members than month ago, while real number of active members is much lower as its hard to call someone who wrote only 1 post in a month an active member.
Merit shared per local board during June 2022Despite the decrease in post activity, there was a big improvement when it comes to amount of merits shared; from only 4809 merits shared in May, local boards went to 7408 merits shared during last month which is a ~55% increase. I don't really know what happened there or whether there were some new merit sources being introduced, but it is definitely a good news.
Another big surprise is that Russian board was nit the most merited one, and last month that title went to German board that had 150% increase compared to May 2022. Majority of other boards had increased amount of merit shared with the Turkish board being one of the rare exceptions.
Merit senders and receivers per local board for June 2022Since there was a big increase in the amount of merit shared, no surprise that there was increased amount of members that were part of the merit system. Let's hope it continues like that the next month as well.
Merit/Post ratio per local board for June 2022Last but not the least in this series of charts, merit/post ratio per local board. Combination of decreased amount of posts and in increased amount of merit shared pumped the ratio quite a bit, with the Arabic board being way ahead of the others with a huge 2.73 merits shared per post, which is a lot even for them. I do think that some boards could definitely use more merit sources like Pilipinas, Turkish, Portuguese and probably Russian as well (not sure how much war related spam there is at the moment).
The most active members per local board during June 2022And for the end of this overview, list of the most active members that are keeping their local boards alive. This time we have a new most active member, user @_Ragnarok_ who managed to beat the last month's most active member @joker_josue by only 1 post!
But, this is not always possible, and we understand that.
