[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[Gladitorcomeback]

First of all thanks Rikafip for providing monthly Overview chart for all board. I want to bring this to your mind that we have updated our local monthly total posts, top 10 poster, merit overview and top merit sender in our local thread. I hope it will make your job little easier .
January 2023  Posts Detail(Pakistan)
January 2023  Merit Detail(Pakistan)
 You have own style of analysing and bringing some interesting comments below every charts which deserve to read it. We will also wait for your all local board data to check out our progress compare to other local board.

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[Rikafip]

Since there's no need to slack every month (and to show that I can publish it in the reasonable time frame), here is the brief monthly overview of the local boards activity for January 2023. As always,  charts and table are made with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards but based on their activity I think that they deserve their spot here and hopefully their status change soon, like it was recently with Nigerian local board.


Post activity per local board during January 2023

During above mentioned period, 15533 posts were written across 18 local boards, which is a solid 12% increase compared to December numbers (13861), that was actually pretty bad so its good to see that we immediately recovered to November 2022 numbers.

As usual, standard names are at the top: Russian board far ahead with 5279 posts, followed by Turkish (2044) and German (1622). Nigerian board was a surprisingly high last month with 890 posts, which is a big increase compared to December and 291 posts written in that period. One more proof that giving them their local board was a right move and I wouldn't be surprised if they endanger the German board at the 3rd spot in the near future. Another board that deserves to be mentioned in Greek board, that had ~350% increase compared to December ( from 49 posts to 197). I don't know what changed there guys, but keep it up.

When it comes to communities without local board, Pakistan needs to be mentioned again as they keep their numbers really high month after month and I think that that they really deserve their local board.

Number of active members per local board during January 2023

Since number of posts written increased in January, no surprise that the same thing happened with number of active members; from 1181 during December to 1248 during January which is a solid 5% increase. Number of active member per board usually don't change much in two months period, but Nigerian board was yet again exception with 40% increase, probably caused due them finally getting their own local board.

Just to note that I count every member who wrote at least 1 during above mentioned period post as being active.

After I did it for yearly local boards overview, I've decided to add this chart to monthly overview as well and we see how it goes. So, members are divided in 3 groups: 1 post, 2-9 posts and 10+, making it relatively similar to the groups made for yearly overview.

When it comes to group of members who wrote only 1 post during January, Indian board has the most of them relative to the total number of active members (61%) followed by Russian (49%) and Spanish (43%). On the other hand, local boards with the lowest amount of such members are Nigerian (17%), Italian (128%) and Arabic (20%).

In the 2-9 posts group, Arabic board with 48% is ahead of others, followed by Indonesian (45%) and Pilipinas (44%) boards, while on the other side are Russian board (24%) and Turkish, Spanish and Pakistan all with 31% members falling into that group.

In the 10+ posts written during January, Croatian board is ahead of the others with 47% of members belonging to that group, followed by Pakistan (42 %) and Turkish & Nigerian both with 40% members writing 10+ posts in that period. At the same time, Indian board didn't have a single member that wrote 10+ posts. followed by Bangladesh (17%) and French (22%) boards.

By the way, this chart is still work in progress so I would appreciate the feedback. Cheers!

Merit shared per local board during January 2023

Increase in number of written posts was naturally followed by a slight increase in the amount merits shared; from 6347 in December to 6552 in January. It may seem like a small increase (and it is with  3%) but I'll take any increase at this point. Once again Russian board was far ahead of others with 1501 merits shared, with German (880) and Turkish (700) behind them.

On the bottom we see the usual names, but I do hope that will change soon as some of those boards are quite active (Pilipinas) and Greek activity went up as well so hopefully that will soon reflect in increased number of merits shared too.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during January 2023

Nothing much to say about this chart other than it mostly follows the amount of merit shared, with some exceptions like Pilipinas, Nigerian and Indonesian board that have high amount of merit senders/receivers compared with the amount of merit shared.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for January 2023

During January 2023, an average merit/post ratio across local board was 0.51, which is a decrease compared to December (0.64) but its still pretty good imho (at least for majority of local boards). Arabic board is yet again back at the top with an awesome 1.46 merit/post ratio and behind them are Spanish local (1.05) and French (0.85).

Usual names are are the bottom, and while I can somewhat understand Greek board having low average since they had a big increase in post activity, Pilipinas board has this situation for (iirc) more than year and they definitely need more merit sources as their current ratio is on the par with the most spammy general boards and somehow i doubt that level of discussion is so low there that it justifies that.

Local Board post race

And for the end of this series of charts, animated local board post race. Courtesy of bitmover.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/

The most active members per local board during January 2023

The last but not the least, list of the most active members acorss 18 local boards. After being several months at the top, joker_josue reign is over as two members from Russian local board Smartprofit [226] and Ratimov [212] tok the first two spots, leaving him at the 3rd.

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|
1. Smartprofit [226]	|	1. mole0815 [137]	|	1. mandown [147]	|	1. fillippone [147]	|	1. joker_josue [206]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [180]	|
2. Ratimov [212]	|	2. 1miau [120]	|	2. Phoenix Anka [96]	|	2. Ale88 [116]	|	2. TryNinja [124]	|	2. darxiaomi [64]	|
3. Snork1979 [146]	|	3. willi9974 [92]	|	3. eightdots [92]	|	3. babo [80]	|	3. bitmover [122]	|	3. famososMuertos [59]	|
4. klarki [145]	|	4. Lakai01 [75]	|	4. kriminall [90]	|	4. Lillominato89 [46]	|	4. rdluffy [79]	|	4. Don Pedro Dinero [46]	|
5. Excimer [131]	|	5. Buchi-88 [73]	|	5. wolwoo [82]	|	5. Paolo.Demidov [41]	|	5. Disruptivas [74]	|	5. Hispo [46]	|
6. The0ldl_lser [117]	|	6. sam00 [69]	|	6. bobita [72]	|	6. hymperion [36]	|	6. Lucasgabd [44]	|	6. Porfirii [46]	|
7. xandry [106]	|	7. bct_ail [65]	|	7. ZekiBeyy [71]	|	7. mendace [35]	|	7. alegotardo [37]	|	7. seoincorporation [33]	|
8. fruktik [99]	|	8. cygan [59]	|	8. SUPERSAIAN [67]	|	8. giammangiato [32]	|	8. nikolaspaolo [11]	|	8. Artemis3 [16]	|
9. TrinityS [89]	|	9. Soonandwaite [56]	|	9. RaltcoinsB [60]	|	9. jack0m [32]	|	9. alexrossi [9]	|	9. franckuestein [14]	|
10. Olgacom [79]	|	10. CoinEraser [53]	|	10. trendcoin [51]	|	10. bitbollo [29]	|	10. Jayjones [7]	|	10. d5000 [13]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic	|
________________________	|	______________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	__________________________	|	______________________	|
1. Husna QA [62]	|	1. Danydee [37]	|	1. blockman [42]	|	1. slackovic [51]	|	1. sokani [45]	|	1. Kavelj22 [61]	|
2. Chikito [55]	|	2. patrickus [33]	|	2. Fredomago [32]	|	2. Trofo [40]	|	2. KupaCrypto [43]	|	2. Ulven [40]	|
3. masulum [54]	|	3. LeGaulois [32]	|	3. bisdak40 [25]	|	3. Daniel91 [39]	|	3. CryptopreneurBrainboss [41]	|	3. OmegaStarScream [22]	|
4. abhiseshakana [43]	|	4. Saint-loup [28]	|	4. mirakal [25]	|	4. Pmalek [37]	|	4. Davidvictorson [41]	|	4. yhiaali3 [21]	|
5. blue Snow [43]	|	5. elma [27]	|	5. Botnake [23]	|	5. dkbit98 [32]	|	5. Dzwaafu11 [31]	|	5. albon [17]	|
6. Pink NordFX [40]	|	6. iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 [25]	|	6. serjent05 [23]	|	6. cryptofrka [22]	|	6. Agbe [27]	|	6. samcoin [17]	|
7. puloweh555 [38]	|	7. GrosWesh [21]	|	7. acroman08 [20]	|	7. SirJohnVonSlotty [21]	|	7. HajiBagi [25]	|	7. Bybit Arabic [16]	|
8. Luzin [36]	|	8. Halab [21]	|	8. arwin100 [18]	|	8. Rikafip [19]	|	8. Charles-Tim [24]	|	8. demoode [14]	|
9. mamesso [33]	|	9. F2b [10]	|	9. Baofeng [15]	|	9. JooBra [18]	|	9. Dr.Bitcoin_Strange [24]	|	9. khaled0111 [11]	|
10. MAAManda [32]	|	10. Becassine [9]	|	10. abel1337 [15]	|	10. FatFork [15]	|	10. Marykeller [24]	|	10. GxSTxV [9]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Polish	|	Pakistan*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|
1. GazetaBitcoin [78]	|	1. pakhitheboss [7]	|	1. cryptosize [80]	|	1. Tytanowy Janusz [26]	|	1. MusaPk [44]	|	1. Crypto Library [20]	|
2. NeuroticFish [64]	|	2. sagarbansal21 [7]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [48]	|	2. wwzsocki [19]	|	2. UmerIdrees [43]	|	2. tjtonmoy [17]	|
3. PrivacyG [32]	|	3. Bitcoin Smith [6]	|	3. HmmMAA [35]	|	3. PawGo [11]	|	3. Gladitorcomeback [37]	|	3. LDL [15]	|
4. saxydev [11]	|	4. avikz [4]	|	4. eli113 [16]	|	4. cygan [11]	|	4. WatChe [34]	|	4. Little Mouse [14]	|
5. ltcrstrbrt [7]	|	5. elevates [4]	|	5. chek2fire [4]	|	5. pawel7777 [9]	|	5. ThemePen [30]	|	5. shasan [13]	|
6. 3dOOm [4]	|	6. pawanjain [4]	|	6. baywatch10 [3]	|	6. zaq123x [6]	|	6. Hamza2424 [28]	|	6. OnZen [9]	|
7. Rizzrack [4]	|	7. maxtra [3]	|	7. chrisvl [3]	|	7. Flangler1 [4]	|	7. Unknown Op [28]	|	7. Alamin9884 [5]	|
8. 1miau [3]	|	8. BManole [1]	|	8. george_gr4 [3]	|	8. Irohim [2]	|	8. AnonBitCoiner [27]	|	8. sajeeb21 [5]	|
9. grandman58 [3]	|	9. Cryptogames999 [1]	|	9. bmxakias [2]	|	9. stellars [2]	|	9. ZAINmalik75 [26]	|	9. Abdulkader765 [4]	|
10. sciborg [2]	|	10. EXMON [1]	|	10. Anthrakorixos [1]	|	10. BTC_4_EVER [1]	|	10. shahzadafzal [16]	|	10. Theking001 [4]	|

[fillippone]

Well done!
I had a plan about avoiding slacking this month, but you heated me once again!

Now, my incentive to be efficient has suddenly decreased… back to slacking then!

[Rikafip]

Well done!
I had a plan about avoiding slacking this month, but you heated me once again!

Now, my incentive to be efficient has suddenly decreased… back to slacking then!

I thought that me getting out overview earlier than usual will be sort of incentive for you not to slack this month but I guess I was wrong.

We have a saying in Croatia that goes "dobra izlika zlata vrijedi", roughly translated to "good excuse is worth in gold" and I think that's the case here.

[joker_josue]

The last but not the least, list of the most active members acorss 18 local boards. After being several months at the top, joker_josue reign is over as two members from Russian local board Smartprofit [226] and Ratimov [212] tok the first two spots, leaving him at the 3rd.

Drops to 3rd place!? 

I had been at the top for many months, it had to happen sometime. I'll try to recover, but maybe it won't be so easy.
Kudos to Smartprofit and Ratimov. Keep going!

[fillippone]

Turning back at the analysis I guess the Spanish board has finally surpassed the French board when we consider the total cumulative number of posts written!

Well done guys!

[rdluffy]

Thanks again Rikafip

What caught my attention the most on this list is Nigeria.
In December 2022 the number of posts was 291, with 61 active users, and in January jumped to 890 posts, with 86 active users.
205% more posts and 40% more active users.
Of course in January BTC went up quite a bit, but we can make a good comparison with the situation the country is experiencing, with the banking problems and the interest in BTC going up.
It's interesting to see Bitcoin helping people.

Portuguese board was in 4th place in december and now it's in 7th place 

[bitmover]

Hello Rikafip. Congratulations and thank you for your work.


While making the charts I saw the name of the Turkish community and I couldn't forget about the earthquake related news.

I want to leave here my feelings for the whole Turkish community.


As usual, I have updated my local race chart:


https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/

After I did it for yearly local boards overview, I've decided to add this chart to monthly overview as well and we see how it goes. So, members are divided in 3 groups: 1 post, 2-9 posts and 10+, making it relatively similar to the groups made for yearly overview.

When it comes to group of members who wrote only 1 post during January, Indian board has the most of them relative to the total number of active members (61%) followed by Russian (49%) and Spanish (43%). On the other hand, local boards with the lowest amount of such members are Nigerian (17%), Italian (128%) and Arabic (20%).

In the 2-9 posts group, Arabic board with 48% is ahead of others, followed by Indonesian (45%) and Pilipinas (44%) boards, while on the other side are Russian board (24%) and Turkish, Spanish and Pakistan all with 31% members falling into that group.

In the 10+ posts written during January, Croatian board is ahead of the others with 47% of members belonging to that group, followed by Pakistan (42 %) and Turkish & Nigerian both with 40% members writing 10+ posts in that period. At the same time, Indian board didn't have a single member that wrote 10+ posts. followed by Bangladesh (17%) and French (22%) boards.

By the way, this chart is still work in progress so I would appreciate the feedback. Cheers!

Great job here Rikafip.

I took some seconds to understand what those numbers really mean, maybe you could improve the Legend with a title for it.
I would also try versions without 100stacked, but it may be hard to see small communities.

Anyway, great job.

[Rikafip]

Turning back at the analysis I guess the Spanish board has finally surpassed the French board when we consider the total cumulative number of posts written!

While Spanish board has been more active lately, according to ninjastic.space French board is still ahead when it comes to the total amount of posts written since creation of those boards (255,455 vs 218,928).

Of course in January BTC went up quite a bit, but we can make a good comparison with the situation the country is experiencing, with the banking problems and the interest in BTC going up.
It's interesting to see Bitcoin helping people.

Getting their local board also probably played some role in getting their numbers up adn i expect those numbers to keep increasing, given the popularity of Bitcoin in Nigeria.

Portuguese board was in 4th place in december and now it's in 7th place

I think that you have to blame joker_josue for that.  

While making the charts I saw the name of the Turkish community and I couldn't forget about the earthquake related news.

I want to leave here my feelings for the whole Turkish community.

+1. I keep thinking about tragedy that happened in Turkey the whole day yesterday and today and I do hope that all our forum members & their families are safe and unharmed.

As usual, I have updated my local race chart:
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/[/url]

Thanks, I've updated my overview with it. Btw, I planned to contacted you before publishing but somehow completely forgot about it. Next time I will make sure to contact you before publishing,

I took some seconds to understand what those numbers really mean, maybe you could improve the Legend with a title for it.

You are absolutely right about this as i thought about the exactly the same thing after I publsihed the overview but I was kinda too bored to correct it at that moment. Anyway, its been sorted now and I hope its easier to understand.

I would also try versions without 100stacked, but it may be hard to see small communities.

I think that 100+ group might be an overkill, but maybe something like 30+ group would be more feasible. I will look into it for the next overview but for now I will keep it as it is.

[aysg76]

Well done @Rikafip for publishing another local board report here to help members and get an idea about how all the local boards have performed previous month and happy to see some early one's this time.

Well done!
I had a plan about avoiding slacking this month, but you heated me once again!

Now, my incentive to be efficient has suddenly decreased… back to slacking then!

He always push that button hard where you have to avoid slacking and be prepared with your reports also giving more time to it but it's good when it comes to these kind of reports.Also waiting for your reports with graphical representations with some slacking also 

While making the charts I saw the name of the Turkish community and I couldn't forget about the earthquake related news.

I want to leave here my feelings for the whole Turkish community.

I also support the Turkish community and god help them in these tough times so hope they has speedy recovery although loss is huge but still present my feelings for them as a forum member.The hard times will pass by leaving some hard feelings but you need to get strong and help each other also.We all are with you as well.

[fillippone]

Turning back at the analysis I guess the Spanish board has finally surpassed the French board when we consider the total cumulative number of posts written!

While Spanish board has been more active lately, according to ninjastic.space French board is still ahead when it comes to the total amount of posts written since creation of those boards (255,455 vs 218,928).

It's the usual discrepancy between @ddmrddmr Dashboard and @tryninja website then.
According to the merit dashboard the situation is the following:




As you can see the spanish board is leading the french board by 395 posts.

[Rikafip]

It's the usual discrepancy between @ddmrddmr Dashboard and @tryninja website then.
According to the merit dashboard the situation is the following:

As you can see the spanish board is leading the french board by 395 posts.

From what I can see, on that screenshot you shared its the amount of merits shared, not posts written.

Regarding posts, numbers that I shared are from the very beginning of those boards meaning since 2011, while Merit Dashboard counts the posts since November 2017. So, even if we count posts only from November 2017, according to Merit Dashboard French board is still ahead of Spanish (131601 vs 54372).

Or maybe you initially wanted to compare the merits shared and not the posts?

[fillippone]

Or maybe you initially wanted to compare the merits shared and not the posts?

Oh,
That is embarrassing.
Yes, merits, I was talking about merits!

This is why I slack! I am slow! I cannot rush things!

[dkbit98]

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Great work yet again Rikafip!
My first impression from this review is that Nigerian local board is growing very fast after theymos approved it's creation.
I wouldn't be surprised if they become one of the most active boards in future, even above Turkish and German boards, and with better forum support for mobile devices they could soon be on top.
That is why I think it would be a good decision to do the same thing with Pakistan board, and I wouldn't mind if each local board gets their own native moderator.
Make forum upgrade to responsive design or create Bitcointalk app, and I can guarantee overall forum activity will improve a lot.

[Lillominato89]

congratulations for the excellent report that you give us month by month, I find it very interesting to see how the boards of the various countries and also but above all the users of the forum behave. Nigeria has made a huge leap forward in the last month, kudos to them. As a good Italian, however, I want to praise my countrymen, we are few but good! I hope that one day more Italians will come to write on the forum.

[AverageGlabella]

Nice to see my local board with the 2nd/3rd in most of the statistics. Are active members who have made at least 1 post in the local board or is it members that have sent a merit or posted in the month? We have a couple of lurkers in the German local board that merit posts but do not post that often. I am surprised that the Russia local board is a lot more active then most other boards though. Our beloved mod mole0815 leading the way for posts!

[Rikafip]

I wouldn't be surprised if they become one of the most active boards in future, even above Turkish and German boards, and with better forum support for mobile devices they could soon be on top.

Considering how popular Bitcoin is in Nigeria and since they are one of the most populous countries in the world (200+ millions) I think that's just a matter of time before they come very close to German and then Turkish board. On top of that, those two boards are on slow and steady decline in the last few years, like the rest of the local boards.

That is why I think it would be a good decision to do the same thing with Pakistan board, and I wouldn't mind if each local board gets their own native moderator.

Success of the Nigerian local board is another argument for Pakistan board and I hope they won't have to wait a couple of years like Nigerians did.

Make forum upgrade to responsive design or create Bitcointalk app, and I can guarantee overall forum activity will improve a lot.

Yep, there are things that could be done in order to slow the activity decrease and who knows maybe even reverse the trend, but for that some changes have to be made asap and not wait for Epochtalk that will come out God knows when.

Nice to see my local board with the 2nd/3rd in most of the statistics. Are active members who have made at least 1 post in the local board or is it members that have sent a merit or posted in the month? We have a couple of lurkers in the German local board that merit posts but do not post that often.

All those who wrote at least 1 post in a month are counted as active members, sent merit doesn't have to do anything with that chart. Those lurkers who don't write and just send merit are counted for merit senders/merit receivers chart though so their effort still counts for something.

I am surprised that the Russia local board is a lot more active then most other boards though.

Russian board is the most active one since creation (it was the first local board created) back in 2010 and it remained that until today.

[Daniel91]

Rikafip, I must admit that you surprised me with such an early publication of your report, so I only now saw your post.
Will this become a new practice now? 
Anyway, I agree with your suggestion that the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities deserve their own local board and I hope it happens soon.
I'm glad that last month we saw a slight increase in activity on the forum, through the number of posts, the number of active members and the number of Merits. I hope this trend will continue in February.
As for the Croatian local board, we already know who our best and most valuable member is, but after a long time we have new members who are active, which is great news.
When will our local report be ready?

[Rikafip]

Rikafip, I must admit that you surprised me with such an early publication of your report, so I only now saw your post.
Will this become a new practice now? 

I wouldn't bet on it if I were you. 2nd part of the month will probably be hectic for me and I had some extra free time on my hands so that's why I published the overview sooner than the usual.

As for the Croatian local board, we already know who our best and most valuable member is, but after a long time we have new members who are active, which is great news.
When will our local report be ready?

It will probably be published on Monday, or Tuesday morning at the latest.

[Rikafip]

As I promised last week, here is this month's brief overview of the local boards activity. All charts and table are made thanks to @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space and I suggest to check those if you want more in depth look at the local boards situation.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards but I think that's just matter of time before those in charge realize that forum can only benefit from a couple of more local boards, like it happened with the recently created Nigerian board.


Post activity per local board during February 2023

During last month 13576 posts were made across 18 local boards, which is considerable 11% decrease compared to January 2023. Even though Russian board remained by the the most active one, more than a half of that decrease was due less activity in that board, followed by decrease in German and Indonesian boards.

On the other hand, its good to see that recently created Nigerian board keeps going strong and increasing its number, proving that creation of their board was the right move and I can see them reaching top 3 in the next few months if they continue like this. Its also fair to mention two other communities that are still waiting for their local board (Pakistan and Bangladesh) whose numbers are also pretty good and imho should get their own local board sooner than later.

Number of active members per local board during February 2023

Even though number of posts went down noticeably, same thing didn't happen with amount of active members (all those who wrote at least one post); from 1248 in January to 1232 in February which is a negligible 1% decrease. Then again, this number rarely changes much on the monthly basis so it was kinda expected not to change much despite the big decrease in the posting activity.

Since I did it for the yearly overview and last month's overview, I decided to continue with this chart in order paint a clearer picture (or at least try) of the local board situation when it comes to their member's posting habits.

Once again Indian board has by far the most members who wrote only 1 post (67%). followed by Romanian (62%) and Romanian & Greek that both had 50% of members that wrote only 1 post. When it comes to boards with the least amount of such members, Nigerian is leader with only 20%, followed by Pakistan (21%) and Portuguese (25%).

In the second bracket (2-9 posts), Bangladesh board with 53% is the leader, followed by Pilipinas (50%) and French (49%). On the other side, Romanian local board has the fewest of those members (only 15%), with Turkish and Arabic board behind them with 22% of those members.

In the 10+ posts bracket, this month's leader is Pakistan board with 53%, followed by Arabic ( 50%) and Turkish (46%) boards. When it comes to boards with the least percentage of such members, India leads with only 4 % (1 member), followed by Polish (7%) and Pilipinas (17%).

Merit shared per local board during February 2023

Since amount of posts dropped down significantly, its no surprise that same thing happened with amount of merits shared too. During January 6552 merits were shared while that number dropped to 5214 during last month, which is a huge 20% decrease.

Once again such a significant drop happened mainly because of the last month's two leading boards, Russian that had a huge drop from 1501 merits shared to only 859 during last month and German that went down almost 50% (from 880 to 444). I would like to hear from people in that board what exactly happen, did one of their merit sources stopped being active as that's one of the reason that could lead to such a sharp decline.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during February 2023

As always, pretty much straightforward chart where local boards are sorted according to the amount of merits shared. If you would like me to use some other criteria (maybe amount of senders or receivers ?), do let me know and I'll think about it.

Some local boards like Nigerian and Pilipinas traditionally stick out from the others, meaning they have a lot of members being part of the merit system, relative to the amount of merits shared.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for February 2023

And last but not the least in this series of chart, merit/post ratio. Since amount of merits went down more than amount of posts (20% vs 11%), no surprise that merits/post ratio went down as well and for the first time in a long time 12 months average was higher than last month's for many boards. Despite this month's drop, things generally still look good for majority of boards, while some could obviously use more merit sources so their members might wanna consider applying for a merit source status.

Local Board post race

Thanks to @bitmover, here is the animnated local board post race chart.

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/12312077/

The most active members per local board during February 2023

For the end of this month local board overview, list of the top 10 active members across 18 local boards (to be more precise 16 locals + to more that are aiming for that).

After finishing 3rd last month, joker_josue managed to get back his usual first spot with 213 posts written in his local board (Portuguese), 2nd is Smartprofit (who was 1st last month) from Russian board with 196 posts while DdmrDdmr from Spanish board and Ratimov from Russian board share the 3rd spot with 187 posts each. Kudos guys, keep it up!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Smartprofit [196]	|	1. mole0815 [88]	|	1. mandown [132]	|	1. fillippone [142]	|	1. joker_josue [213]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [187]	|
2. Ratimov [187]	|	2. 1miau [78]	|	2. Phoenix Anka [80]	|	2. babo [68]	|	2. bitmover [134]	|	2. famososMuertos [54]	|
3. Snork1979 [96]	|	3. willi9974 [65]	|	3. kriminall [77]	|	3. Ale88 [58]	|	3. TryNinja [114]	|	3. Porfirii [47]	|
4. The0ldl_lser [96]	|	4. Lakai01 [64]	|	4. eightdots [71]	|	4. mendace [54]	|	4. Disruptivas [67]	|	4. darxiaomi [42]	|
5. klarki [95]	|	5. CoinEraser [63]	|	5. RaltcoinsB [69]	|	5. hymperion [53]	|	5. rdluffy [63]	|	5. Hispo [40]	|
6. xandry [91]	|	6. bct_ail [61]	|	6. ZekiBeyy [64]	|	6. Paolo.Demidov [49]	|	6. alegotardo [41]	|	6. Don Pedro Dinero [36]	|
7. cyop [89]	|	7. sam00 [60]	|	7. wolwoo [62]	|	7. conilmionome [46]	|	7. Paredao [31]	|	7. seoincorporation [32]	|
8. bonfire66 [70]	|	8. Unknown01 [57]	|	8. trendcoin [60]	|	8. Plutosky [39]	|	8. Lucasgabd [28]	|	8. Artemis3 [11]	|
9. fruktik [66]	|	9. Soonandwaite [54]	|	9. totti67 [58]	|	9. duesoldi [36]	|	9. tg88 [26]	|	9. Cuenta Alternativa [11]	|
10. 3meek [65]	|	10. cygan [49]	|	10. kriptobaron [51]	|	10. Lillominato89 [35]	|	10. nikolaspaolo [8]	|	10. Silberman [8]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	____________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Chikito [46]	|	1. iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 [38]	|	1. blockman [40]	|	1. slackovic [50]	|	1. Tytanowy Janusz [18]	|	1. Kavelj22 [40]	|
2. masulum [45]	|	2. Saint-loup [29]	|	2. Fredomago [24]	|	2. Daniel91 [36]	|	2. pawel7777 [8]	|	2. Ulven [33]	|
3. Husna QA [42]	|	3. patrickus [25]	|	3. bisdak40 [22]	|	3. SirJohnVonSlotty [33]	|	3. wwzsocki [7]	|	3. yhiaali3 [33]	|
4. blue Snow [40]	|	4. elma [20]	|	4. serjent05 [22]	|	4. Pmalek [26]	|	4. cygan [5]	|	4. OmegaStarScream [27]	|
5. Luzin [33]	|	5. Halab [16]	|	5. mirakal [20]	|	5. Trofo [26]	|	5. Killredillla [3]	|	5. albon [26]	|
6. mamesso [22]	|	6. LeGaulois [15]	|	6. acroman08 [15]	|	6. JooBra [25]	|	6. operacjasamum [2]	|	6. Bybit Arabic [18]	|
7. Sarah Azhari [20]	|	7. GrosWesh [12]	|	7. carlisle1 [15]	|	7. dkbit98 [24]	|	7. pbies [2]	|	7. khaled0111 [15]	|
8. abhiseshakana [20]	|	8. Thib11 [10]	|	8. Maus0728 [14]	|	8. cryptofrka [23]	|	8. 5Ksana_HandMade [1]	|	8. Husires [13]	|
9. joniboini [20]	|	9. Danydee [9]	|	9. arwin100 [14]	|	9. casperBGD [22]	|	9. Cashify [1]	|	9. samcoin [11]	|
10. reagansimms [20]	|	10. F2b [9]	|	10. LogitechMouse [13]	|	10. Domchi [17]	|	10. EXMON [1]	|	10. DJANAS [10]	|

Romanian	|	Greek	|	Nigeria	|	Indian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	____________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. GazetaBitcoin [55]	|	1. cryptosize [73]	|	1. Belarge [59]	|	1. pakhitheboss [13]	|	1. UmerIdrees [46]	|	1. LDL [27]	|
2. NeuroticFish [35]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [40]	|	2. KupaCrypto [47]	|	2. elevates [7]	|	2. JunaidAzizi [37]	|	2. roksana.hee [25]	|
3. PrivacyG [22]	|	3. HmmMAA [36]	|	3. Merit.s [47]	|	3. Bitcoin Smith [6]	|	3. ThemePen [36]	|	3. Crypto Library [23]	|
4. Rizzrack [3]	|	4. chek2fire [5]	|	4. Silver005 [47]	|	4. pawanjain [6]	|	4. MusaPk [31]	|	4. Mr.corol [22]	|
5. tutorialevideo [3]	|	5. Dimitris [2]	|	5. CryptopreneurBrainboss [43]	|	5. teosanru [6]	|	5. Hamza2424 [27]	|	5. Little Mouse [19]	|
6. 3dOOm [1]	|	6. chenlizgw [2]	|	6. Obari [37]	|	6. avikz [5]	|	6. ZAINmalik75 [27]	|	6. shasan [19]	|
7. Sanatakos [1]	|	7. JessicaaaSCS [1]	|	7. Nwada001 [31]	|	7. AishwaryaDas [3]	|	7. petulino [26]	|	7. tjtonmoy [15]	|
8. dansus021 [1]	|	8. bomberb17 [1]	|	8. Wiwo [30]	|	8. IIrik11 [3]	|	8. Shan85 [21]	|	8. BountySujon [8]	|
9. fillippone [1]	|	9. coinmarket2023 [1]	|	9. CryptSafe [29]	|	9. Aliosky [1]	|	9. AnonBitCoiner [20]	|	9. Djvai77 [8]	|
10. jedaite [1]	|	10. george_gr4 [1]	|	10. sokani [29]	|	10. EXMON [1]	|	10. MFahad [19]	|	10. Learn Bitcoin [5]	|