First of all, apologies for the delay. I had the intention of publishing the overview much earlier and started working on it few weeks ago, but then some unforeseen circumstances limited my forum use to mobile phone almost exclusively (and even that was pain in the ass). Anyway, everything has been sorted now so I was finally being able to finish and publish April's overview of the local boards activity. As always, 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 but I do hope that will change in the near future.
Post activity per local board during April 2024In the above mentioned period, 17438 posts were written across 18 local boards/threads, which is a solid decrease compared to month before (20804). That decrease is pretty much spread across majorify if not all local boards, with of course more active boards like Russian/Nigerian/Turkish/Indonesian being resposnsible for the majority of it.
Since summer is coming and people will have better things to do I don't expect big increase next month but let's wait and see, maybe we get surprised.
Local boards post raceCourtesy of bitmover
Active members per local board during April 2024During last month, 1423 members wrote at least 1 post in one of the local boards, which is a decrease compared to month before during which 1553 members were active. Given the decerase of the number of posts, this is something that was expected and not a surprise. Once again this decrease is spread among majrity of local boards, while Russian remained by far the most active one with Nigerian holding the 2nd spot.
Local board members per amount of posts during April 2024When it comes to the members who wrote only 1 post, Romanian board is leader with basically 2/3 (67%) of such members, follwoed by Indian (56%) and Spanish (54%) local boards. At the same time, Pakistan local thread had the lowest percentage of such members (only 7%), followed by Nigerian (17%) and Indonesian (22%) local boards.
In the 2-9 posts bracket leader is Indonesian local board with 47%, followed closely by Russian (46%) and German (45%) local boards. At the bottom there is Romanian local board with only 11% of such members, followed by Spanish (27%) and Portuguese (28%) local boards.
Regarding the 10+ posts bracket, Pakistan local board is the leader with 55% of those members, followed by Portuguese (43%) and Nigerian (41%) local boards. At the same time, Polish local board has the lowest percentage of such members (only 10%), followed by Indian (12%) and Spanish (20%) local boards.
Merit shared per local board during April 2024Despite the big decrease in the amount of posts compared to month before, number of merit shared didn't drop that much; from 7058 in March to 6515 in April which makes it a solid ~7% decrease but that's not bad considering the ~16% fewer posts compared to March.
Once again Russian board is far ahead the others which indicates that they got replacement for the merit source they lost some time ago, while far behind are Nigerian and German local boards. Indonesian board used to be the 2nd but I guess those external merit sources that were helping them decreased their activity there.
Merit/Post ratio per local board during April 2024Last month's average acorss all local boards that are part of this overview was 0.48 merit/post which is a little bit more than previous month (0.44) which makes sense considerting the fact that number oif posts went down more than the number of merit (percentage wise of course).
This time we have a new name at the top, French board with 1.2 ratio followed by usual names, Romanian and Arabic local boards and after few months we have Greek board once again on the chart, with a very solid 0.51 ratio. When it comes to the bottom, Pilipinas is once again way below everyone else with a measly 0.04 merit/post which is on par with some of the worst quality parts of the forum and somehow I doubt that's the realistic reflection of their local board quality.
Merit senders and receivers per local board during April 2024During the above mentioned period, 513 members sent merit while 537 members received which is a decrease comparted to month before (525/629). Imho, I expected even bigger decrease consideirng the decreased amount of merit shared, but it was actually not that bad. Another big surprise is that Nigerian board even had more senders/receivers than Russian board despite having ~60% fewer merit sent and Indonesian board is not far behind either.
Percentage of merited posts across local boards during April 2024While in March Spanish local board was the leader with a very high 43% of merited posts, this time we have a new one; Romanian board had an extremely high 60% of merited posts, followed far behind by Arabic and Spanish local boards. At the same time, Pilipinas local board was once again dead last with only ~2% of merited posts, while average for all local boards is ~19%.
Merit per transaction across local boards during April 2024And the last in this series of charts, merit per tx. As you can see, Greek board is far ahead the others with unusually high ratio which can happen in the less active boards like theirs and can give somewhat distorted picture of what's going on in their local board and I can expect that number to be more realistic next month.
The most active members per local board during April 2024Last but not the least in this overview, list of top 10 members across 18 local boards/threads and thanks to whom their local boards are still alive. When it comes to the most active users, totti67 from Turkish local sticks out with 298 posts, followed by oker_josue (230) from Portuguese local and one more member of Turkish board verbakalim who wrote 227 posts in his local board. GG guys, keep it up!
