Since summer vacation is (unfortunately) over, I have more time on my hands to release this month's overview (and beat fillippone
) for August 2023 so here it is. As in previous monthly overviews, all charts and table are made using @DdmrDdmr
Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja
Ninjastic.space while images uploaded via joker_josue's
TalkImg which he made specifically for bitcointalk use.
Communities marked with * (Pakistan and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards but are included anyway with the hope that they get their own local board like Nigerian board did last year.
Post activity per local board during August 2023During above mentioned period 17919 posts were made across 18 local boards and communities which is a decent improvement compared to month before during which 15864 posts were written (that makes it 13% increase). With summer coming to an end and people usually spending more time infront of their PC I hope for even better numbers in the next overview.
As usual, Russian board is far ahead the others, going over 6k posts this month (up from 5298), followed by Turkish board that remained pretty much the same in the terms of activity (2131 in July, 2176 in August) and German that also remained pretty much the same (1584-1611). This month Nigerian board managed to reach 4th spot with 1438 posts which is their record (up from 1174) and I expect them to continue with their growth, while Portuguese board closes top 5 with 1427 posts (up from 1112).
Among the least active local boards we see pretty much the same name like in the last few months: Greek, Romanian and Polish. Greek and Romanian used to be way more active at the beginning of the year (both hovering around ~200 posts in January 2023) and I have no idea what hapepned there so their activity dropped so much. Maybe someone from their local boards can shed some light? Anyway, hopefully that's just a bad period and they eventually recover.
Local Board post raceAnimated local board post race chart, courtesy of bitmover.
Number of active members per local board during August 2023As number of posts increased, no surprise that the same thing happened with the number of active posts: from 1301 active member in July, we went up to 1403 in August. Increase seems small at first, but since these numbers don't change as much as some other (percentage wise), this is actually pretty significant increase.
Yet again by far the most active one was Russian with 428 members that wrote at least one post (drop from 444 active members in July), followed by Nigerian that had 135 active members (up from 121 in July) and Indonesian with 124 (up from 109 during July). Top 5 close German (120, down from 125) and Turkish (117, up from 93).
Local board members per amount of posts during August 2023When it comes to the percentage of members who wrote only 1 post in their board during above mentioned period, Greek is leader with 67%, followed Romanian (60%) and Indian (58%) local boards. At the same time, Pakistan has the lowest percebtage of those members (25%), followede by Turkish (26%) and Pilipinas (28%) local boards.
Regarding 2-9 posts bracked, Bangladesh is leader with 47%, followed by German (44%) and Indonesian (40%) local boards. Likewise, Croatian had the lowest percentage (15%) of such members, followed by Arabic (27%) and Portuguese (28%).
When it comes to 10+ posts bracket, Croatian board is leader with 55%, followed by Pakistan (43%) and Turkish (29%) local boards. At the same time, Greek local board had no members in that bracket al all, while Romanian had 10%, followed by Indian (14%) local board.
Merit shared per local board during August 2023During August, 8360 merit was shared across 18 local boards which is an increase compared to month before (July 2023) during which 7769 merits were shared. Increase doesn;t seem big, but I will take it as a good sign as it is a continuance of a trend so hopefully we continue in the same manner.
Once again, German board managed to reach the top of the chart with 1865 merits (incerase from July and 1841), followed very closely by Russian local that shared 1813 merit during above mentioned period while (up from 1512 in July), Turkish board managed to regain their 3rd spot (1003 merit) from Indonesian (780, down from 1149 during July) local board While Italian closes top 5 with 512 merit shared (very similar to July and 512 merit).
As in previous months, srandard names are at the bottom: Greek, Romanian and Polish, which makes sense as they are the least active ones (not counting several dead boards that are not included in this overview).
Merit/Post ratio per local board for August 2023Both number of posts and merit increased in a relatively similar amount so generally speaking there is no big difference in the matter of merit/post ratio compared to previous period (July 2023).
Once again German board had the highest merit/post ratio (and this unusual increase can be seen by the huge difference between their August and 12 month period number). followed by Spanish 9that is back to their suual ratio after last month lower number) and Arabic board, while Italian is not too far behind them and Indonesian closes top 5 this month.
While its no surprise that Greek board is at the bottom due their lack of activity, several very active boards should have high ratio (Pilipinas, Portuguese, Nigerian) could imho use few more merit sources.
Merit senders and receivers per local board during August 2023Nothing much to say about this chart other than it follows the amount of merit shared, in order to show which boards have more members active in merit system compared to their overall amount of shared merit. As usual, two names stick out: Pilipinas and Nigerian board whihc sould also indicate need for more merit sources.
Merit per transaction across local boards during August 2023Last in this series of chart (and ther latest addition) merit per transaction that gives a little bit more insight into local boards merit habits. Its no surprise to see that local boards with the highest merit/post ratio also (more or less) have highest merit/tx ratio as well.
The most active members per local board during August 2023Last but not the least in this month's overview, top 10 active members for 18 local boards and communities hoping to get their own local board. After quite some time we have a new name at the top, tw0.625 from Russian local board who wrote 458 posts (I have to say that I hear about him for the first time), followed by the usual name at the top joker_josue who despite writing even more posts (311) than last month finsihed 2nd, while another member from Russian local Smartprofit ended up 3rd with also respectable 308 posts. Kudos guys, keep it up!
