[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[joker_josue]

Stay in the forum is the choice of every user, they are not forced to stay forever and regeneration is expected to keep the forum alive.

True, it's pretty normal to take a break from forum occasionally. Problems start when more people go on break/leave, than new people come. But that's the problem that all forums are experiencing, not just the bitcointalk.

Despite that, I don't know of any forum that has such a long lifespan, with active users for almost since the beginning.

I've participated in several forums for some time, but usually they only last 2 or 3 years. And those that do last have a longer duration, usually users after 2 or 3 years stop participating or participate very few times.

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[_BlackStar]

It's not just the case for Croatian board, but majority of others as well. If you check local board post count evolution, you will notice that drop in the amount of post is huge. For example, back in the late 2017/early 2018, total amount of posts written across local boards was measured in hundreds of thousands, while numbers now are in the range of tens of thousands.

It's also fair to mention that big part of that decrease is due altcoin & bounty section of local boards being way less active than before, so boards that were very active in that regard experienced the biggest decrease.

I haven't seen it so far and now I might need to review what's really going on.

In Ratimov's latest thread, there were 2,875,975 post made by all active users on this forum in 2021. I didn't count the number of users based on the boards reviewed but it seems that user participation in the forum on various discussion is still quite high. Especially for the Croatian board there were 180 active users posting last year based on ninjastic.space where there were 7092 posts spread throughout the year. This number certainly decreases when compared to 2020 where there are around 300 active users posting with a number of posts of more than 11K.

It is true that there was a decrease in the user base on Croatian local board by around 60% which caused the number of posts to drop by around 36% from 2020. I don't know what the problem is, but maybe the reason the altcoin's bounty board is not overactive is causing a significant dump.

Stay in the forum is the choice of every user, they are not True, it's pretty normal to take a break from forum occasionally. Problems start when more people go on break/leave, than new people come. But that's the problem that all forums are experiencing, not just the bitcointalk.

Could it be that most local board users prefer to be active on the English board than on the local board? The activity of spam hunters and anything which makes a lot of posts deleted can disturb the comfort of users on one board will make them move to another board. Look how bounty hunter altcoin are starting to post on gambling board, this is totally irrelevant to what they are promoting. The reason is that some of them realized that I and others reported spamm more frequently on the discussion altcoin board. LOL

[Rikafip]

I've participated in several forums for some time, but usually they only last 2 or 3 years. And those that do last have a longer duration, usually users after 2 or 3 years stop participating or participate very few times.

Hah, my experience with forums is completely different. On one of them I am active for ~20 years (general type of forum, place where I heard about Bitcoin for the first time ) and on another for around 10 years (IT forum). Both are Croatian forums, and both of them used to be way more active back in the day, so that's why Ia m not overly fussed with bitcointalk post numbers decreasing as that's how it goes, forums are not as popular as they used to be.

Once I settle on the forum I don't leave easily, so I hope to stay on Bitcointalk for at least that long.

[fillippone]

By the way, is there something that you would like to see in the yearly overview? You can also share suggestions via PM.

I am constantly thinking about new charts and figures to illustrate how boards are going, but for this "yearly" recap, I am a little bit of short o good Ideas. I was thinking about a yearly overview againstprevious years: 2019,2020 and 2021 that are full years should be included to say the least.

But I am open to suggestion about something more innovative.

[DdmrDdmr]

Perhaps, using Ninjastic, it would be interesting for someone to summarize information from the point of view of the number of posters on different levels, disregarding merits.

For example, for the Spanish local board on aggregate (and it may be interesting to see these numbers both with and without the altcoin boards), I get these readings over the last few years:

It shows the acute decrease in the number of unique posters in 2021 (2019’s decrease was likely ICO related), but also the number of posters that made >=50 posts in the depicted year, and those that made >= 10.

Now 50 posts per year is little more than an average of one post per week, but even with such a low bar, only 21 posters reached that mark on the Spanish local board during 2021 (3,15% of Spanish local board posters during 2021). The core lively nucleus there is therefore rather small, and it would be even smaller if I had charted the >=300 posts/year that I initially had in mind.

The above number of post marks are arbitrary, and were set to show a rough average of 1 post per month and 5 posts per month (giving room for a few months off). As I mentioned, these bars are low and could be adjusted to more demanding average bars.

Note: Chart is a quick draft that overlaps data points. The underlying table clarifies the numbers on these collision data points.

[Rikafip]

But I am open to suggestion about something more innovative.

I have some ideas, but in order to do then I'll need a lot of time. Before I even start yearly overview I have to do the same for my local board, then monthly overview and then in the end yearly thing.

So yeah it will take some time

Perhaps, using Ninjastic, it would be interesting for someone to summarize information from the point of view of the number of posters on different levels, disregarding merits.

That's actually a pretty good idea. Thanks!

[fillippone]

So yeah it will take some time

Hello, this is your friendly reminder that the month is almost over and we both haven't done our monthly chore (yet).

[Daniel91]

So yeah it will take some time

Hello, this is your friendly reminder that the month is almost over and we both haven't done our monthly chore (yet).

I think we all understand that there is a lot of work around these analyzes, and no one will blame you if you publish new forum analyzes with a little delay.
Thank you both for your hard work and we look forward to new analyzes.
I hope that the new data will show an increase in forum activity, and improved statistics of local forums.

[fillippone]

So yeah it will take some time

Hello, this is your friendly reminder that the month is almost over and we both haven't done our monthly chore (yet).

I think we all understand that there is a lot of work around these analyzes, and no one will blame you if you publish new forum analyzes with a little delay.
Thank you both for your hard work and we look forward to new analyzes.
I hope that the new data will show an increase in forum activity, and improved statistics of local forums.

Indeed a lot of work.
This is above remark has absolute to be considered to a jokingly reference to a presumed sloppiness.
There’s nothing less than sad when an amusement slowly turns into a chore.
So, don’t rush! (I am promising to release my update this weekend, I am almost halfway trough of it).

[skarais]

Hello, this is your friendly reminder that the month is almost over and we both haven't done our monthly chore (yet).

At first I thought Rikafip would do it on the 25th, but it looks like this time he came later than before. But no problem, I did it earlier than him once again specifically for the activities of the Indonesian Local Board. In addition to the number of posts and merits per month, I recap the distribution of merit for 2021 and the 10 most active users who post in a year on the Indonesian Local Board.




50 user most active in Local Board Indonesia in 2021

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1. Husna QA [910]
2. DroomieChikito [783]
3. abhiseshakana [671]
4. joniboini [630]
5. MAAManda [583]
6. masulum [536]
7. blue Snow [459]
8. roycilik [452]
9. mu_enrico [387]
10. Luzin [330]
11. ShowOff [268]
12. khiholangkang [256]
13. skarais [246]
14. mamesso [184]
15. kawetsriyanto [173]
16. Bitinity [164]
17. BITCOIN4X [130]
18. Ljunior [115]
19. ryzaadit [105]
20. Mukmin [103]
21. Dread Pirate Roberts [102]
22. Renampun [100]
23. MonaLeeTracy [95]
24. Javi_Anibarro [94]
25. alexsetiawan [87]
26. akar87 [86]
27. nurilham [81]
28. bitjoin [80]
29. Princeofpoetry [79]
30. Uang_kartal [72]
31. panjul07 [71]
32. Pink NordFX [69]
33. Rengga Jati [69]
34. randegibran [69]
35. erep [64]
36. ancafe [63]
37. dansus021 [61]
38. oHnK [57]
39. TelolettOm [56]
40. muratsink [54]
41. AhmadM [51]
42. Luqman [51]
43. amihada [51]
44. aqil [49]
45. bct-user [49]
46. retreat [48]
47. Mr.sprin [47]
48. redwine49 [47]
49. aidit45@gmail.com [45]
50. v3liana [45]

[fillippone]

I did it earlier than him once again specifically for the activities of the Indonesian Local Board. In addition to the number of posts and merits per month, I recap the distribution of merit for 2021 and the 10 most active users who post in a year on the Indonesian Local Board.

Good job.
As you know, the Italian board is right behind the Indonesian one. And we are looking to overtake you.
It might not happen too quickly thou.
But we are working on it!

[skarais]

Good job.
As you know, the Italian board is right behind the Indonesian one. And we are looking to overtake you.
It might not happen too quickly thou.
But we are working on it!

I'm sure the Italian Board can overtake the Indonesian Local Board in 1 year (at least) in terms of merit distribution if theymos don't accept my merit source application. Lol.

Since the merit system was introduced, the Indonesian Local Board has managed to distribute a total of 27,528 merit (excluding January 2022), while the Italian Local Board has a total of 20,792 (excluding January 2022). In my opinion, 7K-8K merit is not a huge amount to pursue, most likely because Italian Local Board have an average of 592 merit per month in 2021 while Indonesian Local Boards only have an average of 203 merit per month in 2021. So if theymos don't give me the opportunity to become a merit source then the Italian Local Board will be in front of the Indonesian Local Board in the near future. That's very possible.

However, if Local Board Indonesia merit source currently wants to increase the number of merit per tx more than 1 merit, then you will need more time to overtake me. 

[Igebotz]

I think we all understand that there is a lot of work around these analyzes, and no one will blame you if you publish new forum analyzes with a little delay.
Thank you both for your hard work and we look forward to new analyzes.
I hope that the new data will show an increase in forum activity, and improved statistics of local forums.

Indeed a lot of work.

Yeah, it takes a lot of work and determination. When I first started one for my local community, I had no idea collecting data and inputting it into graphs would be so stressful; at first, I started with a weekly review, but due to work load, so I changed it to a monthly report, but I still skip a few months; I've already begun data collection for the month of January. The online tools that Raf recommend were quite helpful

[CHARTS] Monthly Overview Of The Unofficial Nigeria Local Board

[Daniel91]

I think we all understand that there is a lot of work around these analyzes, and no one will blame you if you publish new forum analyzes with a little delay.
Thank you both for your hard work and we look forward to new analyzes.
I hope that the new data will show an increase in forum activity, and improved statistics of local forums.

Indeed a lot of work.

Yeah, it takes a lot of work and determination. When I first started one for my local community, I had no idea collecting data and inputting it into graphs would be so stressful; at first, I started with a weekly review, but due to work load, so I changed it to a monthly report, but I still skip a few months; I've already begun data collection for the month of January. The online tools that Raf recommend were quite helpful

[CHARTS] Monthly Overview Of The Unofficial Nigeria Local Board

Thank you for your hard work, I'm sure members of your local community appreciate it.
This is a really thankless job because it is quite demanding, it takes a lot of time and you don't really have much use of it, except thanks from others, and sometimes you don't even get a thank you.
Thanks to people like you, this forum is still relevant and important and attracts interest from others.
My only regret is that with each new statistic and analysis of this forum, I notice a decrease in activity on this forum and less interest in participating in the forum.

[Rikafip]

Hello, this is your friendly reminder that the month is almost over and we both haven't done our monthly chore (yet).

Haha thanks for the reminder, as they say "every kick in the ass is a step forward".

This month I managed to be more late than usual; on top of my standard laziness, I traveled a lot this month. Cherry on top was covid that finally got me (I was vaccinated though so symptoms were mild) but still managed to set me back. Anyway, Monthly overview should be out either tomorrow, or Monday at the latest.

[Rikafip]

This time it took me a little bit more than usual, but monthly overview of the local boards activity is finally here. Charts and tables are made with he help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards. At least not for now, but hopefully that changes in the future.


Post activity per local board during December 2021

This month we had an increase of posting activity: from 19413 posts written in November to 20817 written during last month, which is a solid ~7 percent increase. No changes when it comes to top 6 boards, with Russian board far ahead of the others, as usual.

Turkish board recovered a little bit compared to November, but still their numbers are far from where they were ~6 months ago. Looking at Merit Dashboard, part of the reason for their decline might a big decrease in " Konu Dışı" board activity, which is some kind of "Off-topic" board, unless I am mistaken.

Merit shared per local board during December 2021

Unfortunately, increase in post count wasn't followed by merit increase in the same period. During December 6633 merits were shared which is almost 8 percent decrease compared to November and 7148 merits shared. Standard names are at the top: Russian, Turkish, German, Italian and Spanish.

Majority of boards had decrease with merit shared, but Pilipinas was the most drastic: from 170 merits shared in November to only 29 in December, which makes it a ~82 percent decrease. What's even weirder is that they were way more active in December than in November ( iirc ~90 percent increase). Maybe someone from their board can say more what happened there.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during December 2021

As its expected, more merit shared means more people being part of the merit system. Pilipinas board sticks out here, with quite a few people being part of merit shared despite very low amount of merit.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for December 2021

Compared to November, numbers in December are slightly lower but still much higher than the 12 months average so all good. Monthly merit/post ratio numbers tend to fluctuate a lot so nothing out of ordinary.

The most active members per local board during December 2021

Last but not the least, list of the most active members across 18 boards. This month we have a new champion, @willi9974 who wrote 321 posts in German board, beating November champion joker_josue by only 3 posts. Kudos to both of them!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Excimer [252]	|	willi9974 [321]	|	mandown [117]	|	fillippone [184]	|	joker_josue [318]	|	Saint-loup [76]	|
Ratimov [228]	|	mole0815 [152]	|	RaltcoinsB [116]	|	Paolo.Demidov [98]	|	TryNinja [121]	|	Danydee [62]	|
The0ldl_lser [160]	|	bct_ail [151]	|	illetyus [113]	|	babo [96]	|	bitmover [82]	|	patrickus [61]	|
Snork1979 [154]	|	MinoRaiola [137]	|	anonymous3x [86]	|	alexrossi [56]	|	Disruptivas [76]	|	elma [42]	|
Julien_Olynpic [147]	|	Unknown01 [113]	|	ZekiBeyy [79]	|	Harakiri88 [53]	|	Lucasgabd [74]	|	LeGaulois [30]	|
safar1980 [124]	|	-doubleU- [109]	|	SUPERSAIAN [74]	|	Ale88 [50]	|	alegotardo [62]	|	Melja [24]	|
Smartprofit [103]	|	1miau [96]	|	W Jr. [71]	|	duesoldi [43]	|	sabotag3x [60]	|	Becassine [23]	|
delfastTions [103]	|	Real-Duke [94]	|	Phoenix Anka [69]	|	bitbollo [35]	|	gagux123 [57]	|	oscar2000 [21]	|
Cryptmuster [99]	|	cygan [92]	|	flipme [69]	|	Plutosky [34]	|	tg88 [45]	|	GrosWesh [19]	|
dalbaiob [97]	|	hanspeter77 [90]	|	verbakalim [67]	|	serhack [34]	|	rdluffy [41]	|	Halab [12]	|

Spanish	|	Idonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [155]	|	DroomieChikito [112]	|	mirakal [51]	|	slackovic [64]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [18]	|	Kavelj22 [47]	|
famososMuertos [64]	|	Husna QA [73]	|	blockman [46]	|	Trofo [42]	|	cygan [14]	|	khaled0111 [46]	|
Hispo [52]	|	masulum [47]	|	agustina2 [34]	|	casperBGD [38]	|	wwzsocki [14]	|	Ulven [30]	|
Porfirii [42]	|	MonaLeeTracy [44]	|	bisdak40 [34]	|	btcltcdigger [36]	|	lokas0506 [13]	|	OmegaStarScream [19]	|
LUCKMCFLY [23]	|	abhiseshakana [44]	|	Sanitough [31]	|	Daniel91 [35]	|	Rath_ [9]	|	yhiaali3 [13]	|
Csmiami [20]	|	mu_enrico [39]	|	carlisle1 [25]	|	dkbit98 [30]	|	PawGo [7]	|	albon [4]	|
Gleyana [18]	|	Luzin [36]	|	danherbias07 [24]	|	FatFork [26]	|	malevolent [6]	|	mikeywith [3]	|
Silberman [15]	|	joniboini [31]	|	Fredomago [21]	|	Pmalek [26]	|	Flangler1 [2]	|	BitcoinBR (BTCBR) [2]	|
womanderful [11]	|	roycilik [25]	|	acroman08 [21]	|	Bajpas [23]	|	cryptoniush [2]	|	Coinoplex [2]	|
Falin009 [10]	|	Luqman [21]	|	Bttzed03 [19]	|	cryptofrka [18]	|	NOGIVRUK [1]	|	Jsmbugu [2]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
GazetaBitcoin [46]	|	pakhitheboss [22]	|	BlackHatCoiner [11]	|	Sayeds56 [58]	|	Dbdhsgsgsvddv [24]	|	Review Master [18]	|
NeuroticFish [36]	|	teosanru [13]	|	chek2fire [9]	|	cryptobadshah [43]	|	Charles-Tim [22]	|	naim027 [18]	|
Rizzrack [11]	|	Frengki_cisco [11]	|	cryptosize [8]	|	UmerIdrees [42]	|	SatoPrincess [16]	|	Little Mouse [15]	|
geordan173 [7]	|	avikz [10]	|	Greek_Cryptoccy_Community [6]	|	shahzadafzal [34]	|	BIT-BENDER [14]	|	HASSAN60 [12]	|
IonCreanga [4]	|	airdata [8]	|	maxmad [5]	|	5thFear [28]	|	Marykeller [8]	|	Abir13 [11]	|
biguy [4]	|	libert19 [7]	|	condoras [4]	|	NoorulHuda [22]	|	CryptopreneurBrainboss [7]	|	Fernandoo [11]	|
frozenalex [3]	|	Rickirs [6]	|	Anthrakorixos [3]	|	GbitG [16]	|	KarpovE4 [7]	|	RIFAT50 [9]	|
tizu [2]	|	nestproclub [6]	|	andreasf2 [2]	|	HASSAN60 [9]	|	Maestro75 [6]	|	shasan [9]	|
Anouncements [1]	|	ANKIT007 [5]	|	cryptomine.pv [2]	|	Shumyl [9]	|	Anguwa [4]	|	Crypto Library [7]	|
Maffw [1]	|	welovedcrypto [5]	|	remall [2]	|	Imranbutt44 [8]	|	Smartvirus [4]	|	Pffrt [7]	|

[fillippone]

Great analysis @Rikafip as always.
I know how hard is to update all those graph and analysis, so I encourage you to keep i the good work!

As usual, I am going to embed your graph on my own meta posts.

[Daniel91]

Thank you Rikafip for your great effort in making this monthly forum analysis.
Really very interesting data, there was finally a reversal of the long-term trend, and the number of posts increased on the forum, but unfortunately the number of merits decreased.
Indeed, what actually happened to the Pilipinas section of the forum?
Are their merit sources  became inactive so it’s time for some new merit sources?
I see that I have been a little less active on the local part of the forum lately. I will try to be better 

[Rikafip]

I know how hard is to update all those graph and analysis, so I encourage you to keep i the good work!

I am a master procrastinator, that's the main issue.

Indeed, what actually happened to the Pilipinas section of the forum?

Seems like  November (170 merits shared in that period) was nothing but an exception for their board, as they have pretty much similar numbers to Decmeber in the last 6-7 months. I hoped that situation changed back in November, but I guess they still have the same issue.

Are their merit sources  became inactive so it’s time for some new merit sources?

Yeah, that could be the case as I doubt that their post quality fluctuates that much. In the end, only their members can say what's exactly going on there, we can only guess.

[Shamm]

Thank you so much Rikafip for the monthly update and now we know the merits stats per month for our local board. But sad to say my local board was one of those slower merits cycles in this forum. Even though our local merit sources will not active anymore but still the users mentioned above trying to circulates their merits. Once again thanks for the updates.