[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[Rikafip]

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.

In that case, it's probably the time  for some of your active members to apply for a merit source status.

When I first started doing these overviews Philippines board was one of the most merited one so it sucks to see it so low on the chart. Hopefully that changes though, but you (members of your board) have to donate something about it.

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[skarais]

This time it took me a little bit more than usual, but monthly overview of the local boards activity is finally here.

Sure, but I know you always will do for . As usual, that's great data analysis mate.
As I said before, I've updated my thread first although I'm also doing it a bit later than before. It is known, the number of merit distributed in December 2021 at the Indonesian Local Board decreased by 28.3% compared to November 2021 which amounted to 339 merit. For December 2021, the number of merit distributed at the Indonesian Local Board was only 243 merits. But I believe in January we will have an increase.  

[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 be active anymore but still the users mentioned above trying to circulate their merits. Once again thanks for the updates.

In that case, it's probably time for some of your active members to apply for a merit source status.

When I first started doing these overviews Philippines board was one of the most merited ones so it sucks to see it so low on the chart. Hopefully, that changes though, but you (members of your board) have to donate something about it.

Yes, you are right that in the past few years many generous users who given merits to that worthy user who posted a quality reply/thread. And that's why the merits circulation is higher than nowadays.   
There is merit source applications way back in 2018
 crwth merit source application but it's almost 4 years and nothing gonna happen I think theymos will not accept a merit sources application for now.
If other users from the Philippines decide to apply for merits source I think they will struggle to choose 10 quality threads posted within 3 months old or younger.

[joker_josue]

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!

Congrats to @willi9974 got 3 more posts than me. It's good to have competition for this "category". 

Just kidding, I'm not looking for the award, I just like to contribute to the community. 

[willi9974]

Wow, thanks for the info and it looks like i spend to much time

[Rikafip]

For December 2021, the number of merit distributed at the Indonesian Local Board was only 243 merits. But I believe in January we will have an increase.  

Looking at Merit Dashboard and incomplete data for January (up until January 28th), seems like you are having a great month, merit wise. As a matter of fact, it will be your best month in almost two years, since April 2020. Did you finally get a new merit source, or the current ones became more active?

There is merit source applications way back in 2018
 crwth merit source application but it's almost 4 years and nothing gonna happen I think theymos will not accept a merit sources application for now.

It won't hurt to have another merit source application, if there is someone from your board willing to submit one.

If other users from the Philippines decide to apply for merits source I think they will struggle to choose 10 quality threads posted within 3 months old or younger.

You don't have to submit 10 quality threads but 10 posts you think deserve more merit, as simple as that.

Collect TEN posts written in the last couple of months by other people that have not received nearly enough merit for how good they are, and post quotes for them all in a new Meta thread. The point of this is to demonstrate your ability to give out merit usefully.

[Igebotz]

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.

Hopefully, the Nigerian board will be created someday. It's very difficult to have a good conversation on a single thread with image and stats, so I'm not surprised I didn't make the stats two weeks in a row. I've been a little busy, and my activity on the forum has also declined.

We have over 30 active members on that thread, not considering newbies to the stats.

[fillippone]

For December 2021, the number of merit distributed at the Indonesian Local Board was only 243 merits. But I believe in January we will have an increase.  

Looking at Merit Dashboard and incomplete data for January (up until January 28th), seems like you are having a great month, merit wise. As a matter of fact, it will be your best month in almost two years, since April 2020. Did you finally get a new merit source, or the current ones became more active?

Ouch!
This is a bad news for the Italian board, which has been desperately trying to close the gap since a few months now.

Jokes aside, best of luck to our Indonesian friend, we are looking for a real struggle!

[skarais]

Looking at Merit Dashboard and incomplete data for January (up until January 28th), seems like you are having a great month, merit wise. As a matter of fact, it will be your best month in almost two years, since April 2020. Did you finally get a new merit source, or the current ones became more active?

No new merit source have been added, but my efforts and some of the other contributors seem to be starting to make some bounty hunters care about the quality of their posts. They started participating in the merit circulation in the Local Board at this time and it had increased the number of distributions so far. Ratimov has also helped a lot in the thread I moderated which has also increased the number of merit source that helped us apart from DdmrDdmr.

Ouch!
This is a bad news for the Italian board, which has been desperately trying to close the gap since a few months now.

Jokes aside, best of luck to our Indonesian friend, we are looking for a real struggle!

Lol don't be afraid because we are the slugs and you are the flash.

Also thanks for your kind support. Maybe it would be better if you also support my merit source app so that it can encourage us to have a bit better speed. 

[fillippone]

It’s a kind of deja vu, my friend.
It’s a glitch in the matrix, but I think I just wanted to make fun of your laziness in updating this thread.
But my hubris made some superior entity angry, so I ended up with a blunter in someone else thread.
So, just to put things in the right perspective: my meta thread is waiting for your much needed contribution

[Rikafip]

I am again kinda late with this overview, but better late than never. All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.Thanks guys fro your awesome tools!


Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards.


Post activity per local board during January 2022

During January 2022 19539 posts were made, which is a bit lower than December 2021 during which 20817 posts were written. No big change at the top: Russian board by far  the most active one as usual, while both German and Turkish board kept their positions, being 2nd and the 3rd most active board.

Not many boards experienced increase in post count, with basically only Indonesian board having decent growth compared to December ( from 937 to 1211 which is approximately 30% increase). When it comes to boards that experienced  decrease, only Bangladesh sticks out with almost 60% decrease. Few others with a noticeable loss are Italian that had ~20% loss compared to previous month (from 985 to 755), and eventually Russian board with ~13%  decrease while other boards were mostly below 10% decrease.

Once again kudos to Nigerian and Pakistan communities for keeping a respectable activity despite not having own local board. Bangladesh is still decently active but their numbers went down a lot compared to previous months and it might affect their chances of getting local board.

Merit shared per local board during January 2022

When it comes to merit shared in the above mentioned period, there was an increase: from 6633 in December to 7070 during January 2022 which is not bad at all considering that January was less active, post wise.

No changes at the top compared to December 2022: Russian is far ahead the others as usual (which is not a surprise given their post count), followed by German, Turkish and Italian while this time Indonesian board finished at the 5th spot.

When it comes to biggest gainers, Dutch board really sticks out as during December 2021 they didn't have any merits shared while in the last month that number went up to 52.  Another board with big increase is Indonesian as they had only 243 merits shared, while during last month that number went up to 598 which is more than a double. Few other boards went significantly up: Arabic, from 113 to 199 which is more in line with their usual numbers while Portuguese wasn't bad either, with close to 40% increase. Considering their activity I think that they have a lot of room for increase.

When it comes to decrease, Pilipinas board sticks out with ~35% decrease (from 29 to 19, followed by Spanish board that had ~30% less merit shared compared to previous period while no other decently active board didn't have any significant loss in the amount of merit shared. I really have no idea what's happening with Pilipinas board as considering their activity their merit numbers should be much higher and somehow I doubt that post quality there is so low.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during January 2022

Straightforward chart that pretty much follows the amount of merit shared, with few odd cases like previously mentioned Pilipinas board.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for January 2022

Dutch board is kinda messing this chart with 4.3 merit/post ratio, due 52 merits shared while having only 12 posts written but thanks to 12 month average we can see that their real numbers are way more normal. These kind of anomalies can happen with boards that are not too active as all you need is a couple of good posts to affect the ratio drastically. As we can see, blue color still dominates meaning we are still feeling the effect of the increased amount of merit sources.

The most active members per local board during January 2022

And in the end, lost of those responsible for keeping their boards alive. joker_josue is once again the most active member across all local boards with 279 posts, beating last month's top poster willi9974 who has 240 posts. Keep it up guys!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Snork1979 [238]	|	willi9974 [240]	|	anonymous3x [140]	|	fillippone [137]	|	joker_josue [279]	|	Saint-loup [91]	|
dalbaiob [214]	|	mole0815 [189]	|	mandown [119]	|	babo [82]	|	TryNinja [130]	|	Danydee [75]	|
The0ldl_lser [194]	|	1miau [124]	|	verbakalim [106]	|	Paolo.Demidov [70]	|	bitmover [117]	|	patrickus [68]	|
Ratimov [192]	|	bct_ail [122]	|	ZekiBeyy [89]	|	Ale88 [59]	|	Disruptivas [73]	|	Melja [55]	|
Julien_Olynpic [122]	|	sam00 [107]	|	execijutiere [83]	|	gbianchi [57]	|	alegotardo [65]	|	elma [39]	|
Smartprofit [114]	|	Unknown01 [106]	|	MK-74 [82]	|	Plutosky [49]	|	tg88 [63]	|	LeGaulois [34]	|
Unbunplease [100]	|	-doubleU- [100]	|	SUPERSAIAN [81]	|	duesoldi [45]	|	Lucasgabd [61]	|	GrosWesh [22]	|
jokers10 [93]	|	Soonandwaite [87]	|	illetyus [81]	|	Harakiri88 [26]	|	sabotag3x [55]	|	perl [18]	|
Cryptmuster [90]	|	MinoRaiola [86]	|	püsür [81]	|	alexrossi [24]	|	gagux123 [53]	|	Halab [12]	|
Olgacom [90]	|	Koal-84 [83]	|	LGD2Business [73]	|	bitbollo [17]	|	rdluffy [48]	|	oscar2000 [10]	|

Spanish	|	Indonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [188]	|	Husna QA [120]	|	mirakal [48]	|	slackovic [82]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [31]	|	Kavelj22 [53]	|
famososMuertos [71]	|	DroomieChikito [86]	|	agustina2 [41]	|	casperBGD [42]	|	wwzsocki [24]	|	khaled0111 [49]	|
Porfirii [50]	|	abhiseshakana [63]	|	bisdak40 [40]	|	Trofo [41]	|	lokas0506 [18]	|	OmegaStarScream [27]	|
Hispo [49]	|	Luzin [49]	|	blockman [36]	|	Daniel91 [39]	|	cygan [14]	|	Ulven [25]	|
LUCKMCFLY [34]	|	masulum [49]	|	Fredomago [31]	|	btcltcdigger [37]	|	PawGo [6]	|	yhiaali3 [25]	|
Silberman [14]	|	Groundbit [45]	|	carlisle1 [27]	|	FatFork [26]	|	Flangler1 [5]	|	biskra [11]	|
Artemis3 [11]	|	bitjoin [38]	|	Baofeng [26]	|	CroBoy12 [23]	|	Rath_ [5]	|	madaran [9]	|
darxiaomi [11]	|	blue Snow [38]	|	acroman08 [24]	|	Stalker22 [19]	|	malevolent [5]	|	Jsmbugu [7]	|
foroplus [11]	|	Davian144 [37]	|	arwin100 [24]	|	badger27 [19]	|	zzipsquad [3]	|	BuySellVouchers [3]	|
d5000 [10]	|	Uang_kartal [36]	|	danherbias07 [22]	|	dkbit98 [19]	|	cornl [2]	|	Coinoplex [3]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
GazetaBitcoin [14]	|	nestproclub [20]	|	BlackHatCoiner [9]	|	Sayeds56 [50]	|	Charles-Tim [19]	|	GoodLuckHK [14]	|
NeuroticFish [12]	|	pakhitheboss [16]	|	chek2fire [9]	|	UmerIdrees [41]	|	Pokapoka124 [16]	|	Little Mouse [8]	|
IonCreanga [3]	|	teosanru [8]	|	Dhdhskannhdu [3]	|	NoorulHuda [38]	|	uchegod-21 [14]	|	wtsimis [7]	|
Rizzrack [3]	|	ANKIT007 [5]	|	Kristo90 [3]	|	shahzadafzal [25]	|	BIT-BENDER [13]	|	Crypto Library [6]	|
danuker [2]	|	avikz [5]	|	cryptomine.pv [3]	|	5thFear [22]	|	Cookdata [11]	|	naim027 [6]	|
simand [2]	|	donatien [5]	|	cryptosize [3]	|	FLoving [20]	|	Mpamaegbu [10]	|	Review Master [5]	|
Aptekary [1]	|	jatinkapadia [5]	|	Chel_v [2]	|	CryptoYar [18]	|	CryptopreneurBrainboss [9]	|	Pffrt [3]	|
Chel_v [1]	|	jatinkapadia [5]	|	aidi_hex [2]	|	JAKIYA [13]	|	Maestro75 [8]	|	AALL [2]	|
Tony93836 [1]	|	Frengki_cisco [3]	|	bomberb17 [2]	|	naim027 [11]	|	SatoPrincess [8]	|	Abir13 [2]	|
andulolika [1]	|	cryptobaba101 [3]	|	minecoins89 [2]	|	Fernandoo [6]	|	Smartvirus [7]	|	Cornia [2]	|

[skarais]

Another board with big increase is Indonesian as they had only 243 merits shared, while during last month that number went up to 598 which is more than a double.

Mate, I'm really happy to see a big increase like this in the Indonesian Local Board because people are starting to care about the quality of posts. I just hope they can maintain and also improve the quality of their posts in the future so that we can actually increase the number of merit distributed every month. It was a good performance that I expected from them, but unfortunately I didn't contribute much to merit last January because I didn't have enough sMerit.

Rikafip, once again good work from you and it's ok even if you are late again. 

[FatFork]

In a nutshell, there are no major changes at the top. The Russian, German and Turkish boards always hold their positions in the top three, and there are no signs that any other board can unseat them anytime soon. When compared with last year's charts, we can see that the number of posts across local boards have decreased significantly, but this is in line with the general decline in forum activity. I guess it is related to forums in general, which have been declining for some time now and there are no signs that activity will pick up any time soon.

Maybe a new forum software, better suited to mobile platforms, is in order? @theymos, can you share your thoughts on this?

[joker_josue]

And in the end, lost of those responsible for keeping their boards alive. joker_josue is once again the most active member across all local boards with 279 posts, beating last month's top poster willi9974 who has 240 posts. Keep it up guys!

Congratulations to @willi9974 , who makes this top more competitive. 

For the month of February, I shouldn't be first, I had a few weeks with fewer posts than usual. We'll see. 

[Rikafip]

Mate, I'm really happy to see a big increase like this in the Indonesian Local Board because people are starting to care about the quality of posts. I just hope they can maintain and also improve the quality of their posts in the future so that we can actually increase the number of merit distributed every month. It was a good performance that I expected from them, but unfortunately I didn't contribute much to merit last January because I didn't have enough sMerit.

Yeah it's nice to see Indonesian board among most merited ones as you are very active board. I do think that you still have a loot of room for improvement despite this increase as when i started making these overviews almost 2 years ago, you had pretty much similar amount of posts (~1200) and something like 50% more merits shared than you had last month. Then again, I have no idea whether post quality remained the same like it was before.

I guess it is related to forums in general, which have been declining for some time now and there are no signs that activity will pick up any time soon.

Yeah its a general trend among forums (at least the ones I am pat of) so bitcointalk is not exception here.

Maybe a new forum software, better suited to mobile platforms, is in order?

To be honest I don't think that would reverse the trend, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't help to some degree to slow the decline. I personally don't mind not having mobile version, but from the experience on some other forums, I did notice that people prefer using those.

[joker_josue]

I guess it is related to forums in general, which have been declining for some time now and there are no signs that activity will pick up any time soon.

Yeah its a general trend among forums (at least the ones I am pat of) so bitcointalk is not exception here.

People have gradually lost interest in writing/reading, preferring to speak on podcasts or make videos.
I believe this is the reason for this decline. In addition to the fact that more and more information about Bitcoin and the like, there is less interest in going to forums to look for information.

[uchegod-21]

I am happy at the progress that Nigerian unofficial local board made this January. I had to visit previous updates and noticed that there is more activeness now compared to December last year.
The board recorded 131 posts December, 2021 and 149 posts January, 2021. The difference is about 18 posts and I made a total of 14 posts to be the 3rd most active January, 2022. Maybe I am the difference.
The number of merits issued in Nigerian Local Board is not matching with the quality of posts there. If Theymos can grant the merit application of Upgrade00 and Charles-Tim, it will help circulate merit in the board. Other merit sources can also come to the board, who knows you can like our pigin english and issue merit to deserving posts. Hopefully we can have our locale board one day.

[skarais]

Yeah it's nice to see Indonesian board among most merited ones as you are very active board. I do think that you still have a loot of room for improvement despite this increase as when i started making these overviews almost 2 years ago, you had pretty much similar amount of posts (~1200) and something like 50% more merits shared than you had last month. Then again, I have no idea whether post quality remained the same like it was before.

The number of posts may be the same as last month but the improvement in post quality has allowed some users to get more merit from both merit source or non-merit source. There was an increase in the number of merit senders and merit recipients during January compared to December regardless of the reasons for qualifying to join the campaign or indeed starting to realize that merit was needed to rank up.

Ratimov quite often helps some of the users there too by send some of the merit on different user apps in a thread that I moderate, then I also started to notice that JayJuanGee is starting to help us with some of its merit. It's great when I can bring more of you (merit source) to the Indonesian Local Board to help increase the number of merit distributions on eligible posts each month even though in the end my application for merit source was not accepted.

[Rikafip]

People have gradually lost interest in writing/reading, preferring to speak on podcasts or make videos.

It's not so much that people lost interest in writing/reading but now they have more options than before. There are bunch of people on Telegram and Discord despite the fact that those two platforms don't even come close to forum when it comes to possibility of quality conversation and exchange of ideas.

In addition to the fact that more and more information about Bitcoin and the like, there is less interest in going to forums to look for information.

True, back in the day Bitcointalk was probably the only source of Bitcoin info, and later on that expanded to altcoins as well while situation is quite different now. Add on tha the fact that forums are not as popular as they used to be and this is what you get. Despite all this, bitcointalk is still very much alive and kicking so I am not worries about its future, at least not in the next couple of years.

The number of merits issued in Nigerian Local Board is not matching with the quality of posts there. If Theymos can grant the merit application of Upgrade00 and Charles-Tim, it will help circulate merit in the board. Other merit sources can also come to the board, who knows you can like our pigin english and issue merit to deserving posts. Hopefully we can have our locale board one day.

You might wanna consider using Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source until you get another merit source. Not going into quality of posts there, but 0.4 merit/post ratio you had during January is pretty good, ranking you 7th from 19 boards in that chart, ahead many of the big boards. That of course doesn't mean that you don't deserve another merit source, just saying that situation in your board is not bad at all.

It's great when I can bring more of you (merit source) to the Indonesian Local Board to help increase the number of merit distributions on eligible posts each month even though in the end my application for merit source was not accepted.

As i suggested to @uchegod21, you should consider using Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source if you think that some good posts are left without the merit. That topic was a big help to my local board before we got few additional merit sources so it might help you too.

[Shamm]

Thanks for the update mate. I am not active in Philippine board nowadays because of time conflict and got busy from my work. But when I am looking the updated charts it seems that the statistics of the Philippines board is down and the active user has down as well.
And all of these happens because the other users from the Philippines got busy or they are only visiting the board but not post anything like I did.