As I promised few days ago, here is yet another overview of the local board activity and this time for May 2024. As in all the previous one, all charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr
Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja
Ninjastic.space.
Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards as of yet, which I hope changes in the near future.
Post activity per local board during May 2024During the last month, 16597 posts were written across 19 local boards, which is a slight decrease compared to April's numbers (17438). Summer is coming, and people are spending more time outside, so this decrease is perfectly normal and expected, as it has been in previous years.
Among the local boards included in this overview (with a few missing due to inactivity), the Russian board remained by far the most active, followed by the Turkish and Nigerian boards, while the Indonesian and German boards closed out the top five. As for the bottom of the chart, the same names appear once again, which I don't expect to change in the near future, although the Bengali board might climb up, as it was more active not too long ago.
Local boards post raceCourtesy of bitmover
Active members per local board during May 2024During the above mentioned period, 1356 members wrote at least 1 post on any of the local boards that makes it an expected decrease compared to month before (1423). This decrease was observed across all the local boards, with only the German and Turkish boards slightly sticking out regarding the decrease.
Speaking purely about the numbers, Russian remained the most active one but Nigerioan and Indonesian looking good too, especially the former whose growth in the last year or so has been unbeliveable.
Local board members per amount of posts during May 2024When it comes to the members who wrote only 1 post, Indian local board is the leader with exactly 50%, followed by Bengali (45%) and Spanish (42%) local boards. At the same time, Croatian has only 10% of such members, followed Pilipinas (14%) and Indonesian (15%) local boards.\
In the 2-9 posts bracket leader is Indonesian local board that had 55% of those members, followed by Romanian, Polish and French local boards that all had 50%. In the same bracked, Portuguese had only 16% of such members, followed by Greek (17%) and Pakistan (24%) local boards.
Regarding the 10+ posts bracket, Portuguese is the clear leader with 60% of such members, followed by Greek (50%) and Pakistan (45%) local boards. When it comes to locals with lowest percentage of such members, Polish sticks out with only 8%, followed by Romanian (17%) and Indian (19%) local boards.
Merit shared per local board during May 2024During the last month, 8364 merits were shared in the local boards, representing almost a 30% increase compared to April's total of 6515. Given such a significant increase, it’s no surprise that the majority of local boards performed better than in April, with Germany leading in terms of the increase.
Despite this overall growth, some boards had a worse month. For example, the French board saw a decrease from 274 merits in April to only 139 in May. Additionally, the Greek board did not have any merits shared at all in May, while in April their total was quite decent for their size, with 37 merits shared.
Merit/Post ratio per local board during May 2024The merit per post average for all local boards during May was 0.69, which is significantly higher than the previous month’s average of 0.48. Considering the decrease in the number of posts and the substantial increase in merit shared, it’s no surprise that the ratio looks much better for May than it did in April.
Regarding the boards with the highest ratios, the Romanian board is at the top, which is not surprising, but their extremely high ratio is somewhat unexpected. Then again, this can happen with less active local boards, as all it takes is a couple of quality posts with a lot of merit to boost the ratio. Conversely, the Pilipinas board once again has an extremely low ratio, comparable to some of the least quality parts of the forum and I doubt that it accurately reflects the quality of that board.
Merit senders and receivers per local board during May 2024During the last month 540 members sent merit while 663 received which is an expected increase compared to month before (513 sends and 537 receivers). Once again an interesting thing happen, where several boards managed to have more senders/receivers than Russian board despite the fact that they had by far the most amount of merit shared which indicates that their merit ciriculation is a little bit more concentrated than on some of the other boards.
Percentage of merited posts across local boards during May 2024An average percentage of merited posts across 18 boards is 23.55% which is the (expected) increase compared with April (18.84). During April Romanian board was sticking out with a very high 60% of merited posts and during May they even managed to beat that, going up to the extremely high 75%. Once again, this kind of percentage is possible only at less active boards and Romanian with only 40 posts during last month qualify as one.
Regarding the bottom, who else could it be there other than Pilipinas with less than 4% of merited posts, but Indian and Turkish are not too far behind either.
Merit per transaction across local boards during May 2024An average merit per tx across local boards during May was 1.78 which is a decrease compared to April (2.08). Kinda interesting change as I expeced an increase considering almost 30% more meeit being send compared to month before.
The most active members per local board during May 2024Last but not the least in this overview, list of top 10 members across 18 local boards/threads. Regarding the overall most active members, this time top 3 comes form the same board (Turkish), namely totti67 (288 posts), verbakalim (265) and mandown (229). Kudos guys, keep it up (and wake up joker_josue)!
. It is not just you but everyone who deals in deducing the data and then creating a presentation has to go with. Thanks for those wonderful bar graphs that we eagerly await every month once again. 
