[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[bitmover]

Here comes the brief monthly overview of the local boards activity for April 2025. All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

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

Here is the update local boards race!!


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

[Rikafip]

I don't even have to pretend much. My wife has a Romanian course, I just have to ask if I'm writing well. 

Then you are all set for some merit farrming. Good luck!

Here is the update local boards race!

Overview has been updated with your animated chart. Cheers!

[TheUltraElite]

I remember some time ago someone was faking to be a native Italian speaker in order to farm merit there. Maybe you should try the same thing, but in Romanian board.

I don't even have to pretend much. My wife has a Romanian course, I just have to ask if I'm writing well. 

You lucky Sir, I see what you are doing!

Unfortunately I dont know many languages other than my local and English, so cant really farm those merit you talk about. But I hope my local gets a merit source soon, we are definitely drying out there over the last 2 months.

[Rikafip]

Unfortunately I dont know many languages other than my local and English, so cant really farm those merit you talk about.

I guess its time to learn a new language. 

But I hope my local gets a merit source soon, we are definitely drying out there over the last 2 months.

If I remember correctly, few years ago you applied for a merit source status, right? Anyway, hopefully you get it approved the next time theymos decides to readjust merit system.

[Bitcoin Smith]

But I hope my local gets a merit source soon, we are definitely drying out there over the last 2 months.

If I remember correctly, few years ago you applied for a merit source status, right? Anyway, hopefully you get it approved the next time theymos decides to readjust merit system.

Application for Merit Source - TheUltraElite

It's exactly a year ago. Is it some kind of sign or what? 

Can't really understand what's on theymos mind about all those pending applications, it's been a while since anyone added newly but some of them voluntarily asked them to be removed from merit source like HH who is been the sole member who could generate source merits in Indian board but now...

Yet, the activity is holding up, which is a surprise to be honest.

[TheUltraElite]

I guess its time to learn a new language.  

You really dont need to learn, you got tools for that but dont use them but use something robotic? - after all the objective in some section is just to farm merits, so why bother learning a new script and force yourself to bark out pronunciations?

If I remember correctly, few years ago you applied for a merit source status, right? Anyway, hopefully you get it approved the next time theymos decides to readjust merit system.

Hehe, it was one year ago and yes that is where I got a itch from, a little bird told me that it has been so. But I can see applications lying here for years so I am willing to wait it out.

[dkbit98]

Thank you for another informative overview of forum local boards.
I am happy to see our local board growing in last few months, and we have to thank some new members for that improvement.
It's better to wait until the end of the year to see how Bitcoin markets will change, but I think year 2025 will be positive overall for local boards.

[Rikafip]

Thank you for another informative overview of forum local boards.
I am happy to see our local board growing in last few months, and we have to thank some new members for that improvement.
It's better to wait until the end of the year to see how Bitcoin markets will change, but I think year 2025 will be positive overall for local boards.

Yep, our local board looks the best in the last year or two thanks to few new members that joined/reactivated. We still have a lot of room for improvement as all we need is to some of our members to decide to come back.

Teaser from the next monthly overview - our numbers are even better than the last month's.

[Rikafip]

The time has come for another brief monthly overview of the local boards activity, this time for May 2025. All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space.

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


Post activity per local board during May 2025

During the last month, 12794 posts were written across 18 local boards which is an increase compared to April's numbers (12356). Russian local board remained at the top, but Nigerian  is coming closer month after month and its just a matter of time before they overtake them.

Local boards post race

Courtesy of bitmover

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

Active members per local board during May 2025

During May, 1241 members wrote at least 1 post in one of the local board which is a slight increase compared to month before (1236 during May), which is not a surprise given the increase in the amont of posts as well. In this chart Russian still has big advantage over the others, but we will see how that develops.

Local board members per amount of posts during May 2025

When it comes to the members who wrote only 1 post, Romanian is the leader with 63%, while in the same time Pilipinas has only 9% of such members.

In the 2-9 posts bracket leader is the French local board with 55%, while on the other side Polish local has only 20% of the members who wrote between 2-9 posts.

And regarding the 10+ posts bracket, Croatian local is the leader with 55% and at the bottom its Romanian local with only 13% of the members who wrote 10+ posts.

Merit shared per local board during May 2025

During the above mentioned period 7479 merit was sent acorss local boards that are part of this overview, which makes it a huge increase compared to April's numbers (5873). German local board is back at the top after poor Aoril's performance, narrowly beating Nigerian local while Russian local dropped to for them unusually low 3rd spot.

Majority of the local boards shared more merit than in April, with Nigerian local sticking out (904-1663). At the same time, Indonesian has a big decrease (from 619 down to 304).

Merit/Post ratio per local board during May 2025

During May , the average merit per post ratio for local board was 0.58, meaning a big increase compared to April (0.48).

Romanian board is kinda messing up this chart once again, this time with even higher merit/post ratio than last month (just to add that this is not too unusual for less active boards)  followed far behind by German local board, while at the same time Pilipinas remiend the dead last wityh only 0.1 merit per post.

Given the recently appointed merit sources in many local boards, I expect this chart to looks much different in the next overview.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during May 2025

During May, 503 members sent while 620 received merit in once of the local boards, which is (an expected) increase compared to April (519 senders/579 receivers). Despite being 2nd on merit amount chart, Nigerian local dominates this chart, leaving all others far behind, and you can say that Indonesian also performed well consdiering their amount of merit sent.

Percentage of merited posts across local boards during May 2025

Considering their crazy high merit per post ratio, no surprise to see Romanian board once again at the top with 52% of merited post, while far more active Nigerian, German and Italian are behind at around 30% mark.

Merit per transaction across local boards during May 2025

Last but not the least, chart that shows meriting habits of local boards. Here we have Greek local board sticking due fact that they only had 2 merit transaction during may, causing this unrealistically high merit per transaction value, while Romanian (another less active local board) also had unrealistically high number.

The most active members per local board during May 2025

And in the end, list of the most active local boards members. This time two members from Russian local board were the most active ones; klarki with 175 and jokers10 with 169 posts while joker_josue  from Portuguese local board was 3rd with 152 posts written in his local druing last month. Keep it up guys!
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Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. klarki [175]	|	1. MaxMueller [113]	|	1. yenerbatmaz [94]	|	1. babo [89]	|	1. joker_josue [152]	|	1. famososMuertos [56]	|
2. jokers10 [169]	|	2. Lakai01 [99]	|	2. mandown [87]	|	2. Ale88 [72]	|	2. bitmover [91]	|	2. Don Pedro Dinero [46]	|
3. Julien_Olynpic [133]	|	3. cygan [80]	|	3. blomen [77]	|	3. giorgione [60]	|	3. TryNinja [77]	|	3. Hispo [41]	|
4. zasad@ [94]	|	4. Soonandwaite [79]	|	4. execijutiere [61]	|	4. fillippone [55]	|	4. Forsyth Jones [59]	|	4. sausalitox [31]	|
5. xandry [88]	|	5. Real-Duke [75]	|	5. Mustang Shelby [60]	|	5. xenomorfo [49]	|	5. tg88 [55]	|	5. Porfirii [29]	|
6. Alex077 [85]	|	6. Unknown01 [59]	|	6. ajanwalker [56]	|	6. Plutosky [44]	|	6. Pumared [50]	|	6. darbitmobilerecovery [23]	|
7. safar1980 [74]	|	7. Koal-84 [52]	|	7. RaltcoinsB [57]	|	7. Lillominato89 [38]	|	7. r_victory [33]	|	7. seoincorporation [21]	|
8. Numeral [58]	|	8. Buchi-88 [51]	|	8. RaltcoinsB [57]	|	8. gbianchi [34]	|	8. mikel_012 [32]	|	8. d5000 [19]	|
9. mak013 [57]	|	9. MinoRaiola [48]	|	9. ajanwalker [56]	|	9. bastisisca [31]	|	9. non fungible anxiety [32]	|	9. Drawesome [15]	|
10. eisen33 [53]	|	10. willi9974 [47]	|	10. Hvdv [52]	|	10. bitbollo [26]	|	10. Mindyspace [31]	|	10. darxiaomi [14]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Chikito [90]	|	1. Becassine [21]	|	1. Peanutswar [41]	|	1. katanic97 [63]	|	1. Charles-Tim [60]	|	1. Kavelj22 [30]
2. punk.zink [44]	|	2. patrickus [20]	|	2. gunhell16 [34]	|	2. btcltcdigger [45]	|	2. Joy- maker [43]	|	2. khaled0111 [27]
3. Husna QA [42]	|	3. Danydee [19]	|	3. cryptoaddictchie [33]	|	3. Rikafip [38]	|	3. Africolo [41]	|	3. yhiaali3 [25]
4. mu_enrico [34]	|	4. Saint-loup [8]	|	4. Mr. Magkaisa [30]	|	4. Pmalek [30]	|	4. Sonia_123 [35]	|	4. satoshyat.team [19]
5. MAAManda [31]	|	5. G.Seed [6]	|	5. GreatArkansas [25]	|	5. Trofo [30]	|	5. Tonimez [34]	|	5. GxSTxV [16]
6. Luzin [29]	|	6. tuxo [6]	|	6. PX-Z [24]	|	6. dkbit98 [27]	|	6. Josefjix [33]	|	6. OmegaStarScream [8]
7. joniboini [25]	|	7. Halab [4]	|	7. serjent05 [24]	|	7. slackovic [27]	|	7. Mate2237 [32]	|	7. Privatus [8]
8. len01 [25]	|	8. coupable [4]	|	8. Fredomago [22]	|	8. cryptofrka [25]	|	8. CryptoHeadlineNews [30]	|	8. albon [4]
9. armanda90 [23]	|	9. Angroid [2]	|	9. bhadz [22]	|	9. examplens [24]	|	9. POPOLUV [28]	|	9. Ochan_yazo_tochant [3]
10. Rashlyowl [22]	|	10. GrosWesh [2]	|	10. blockman [22]	|	10. ovcijisir [23]	|	10. Princess Leah [28]	|	10. hugeblack [3]

Polish	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Romanian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bengali*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. cygan [27]	|	1. IIrik11 [26]	|	1. condoras [19]	|	1. GazetaBitcoin [14]	|	1. qurbanshah02 [39]	|	1. DYING_S0UL [22]	|
2. pawel7777 [4]	|	2. JSRAW [25]	|	2. Ultegra134 [14]	|	2. NeuroticFish [4]	|	2. JunaidAzizi [35]	|	2. Nothingtodo [19]	|
3. bitbartek [1]	|	3. Bitcoin Smith [14]	|	3. coctailnuts [6]	|	3. UsdtBucuresti [2]	|	3. GbitG [25]	|	3. Bd officer [18]	|
4. shual1982als [1]	|	4. TheUltraElite [8]	|	4. apogio [4]	|	4. IonCreanga [1]	|	4. Cheema02 [22]	|	4. Shishir99 [16]	|
5. stwenhao [1]	|	5. M47AK16 [5]	|	5. BitcoinsGreece [3]	|	5. amsterdamlucian [1]	|	5. MusaPk [22]	|	5. Crypto Library [12]	|
	|	6. henry1111 [4]	|	6. changlee [2]	|	6. ethanhunt2023 [1]	|	6. Rustam Meraj [22]	|	6. HelliumZ [12]	|
	|	7. libert19 [4]	|	7. Dimitris [1]	|	7. jedaite [1]	|	7. ZAINmalik75 [22]	|	7. LDL [12]	|
	|	8. GazetaBitcoin [3]	|	8. RnBMC.official [1]	|	8. shinotabu28u [1]	|	8. Publictalk792 [16]	|	8. Bluedrem [11]	|
	|	9. Mastercon [2]	|	9. alani123 [1]	|		|	9. UmerIdrees [15]	|	9. Mahiyammahi [11]	|
	|	10. Orange89 [2]	|	10. mastercryptogr [1]	|		|	10. Compromise me [14]	|	10. Hossain Risfa [9]	|

[babo]

thanks @rikafip for your usual report
I note that there have been spikes in Romania and Greece

the thing that leaves me surprised is the drop of the Russian board which was the strongest ever a few months ago, so this leaves me very surprised
Do Russian guys have problems connecting by any chance?

[cygan]

thanks @rikafip for your usual report
I note that there have been spikes in Romania and Greece
✂️

same here!
and if you look at all the stats including the top5 (which is actually a two-man show) on the polish board, then i would say: the 'patient' is clinically dead
nothing more going on with my polish mates

[babo]

you have to consider that as the weather improves people do other things
they could write from the phone, but it is so inconvenient that it discourages any thought

every year cyclically in this period a definitive stampede begins
not to mention that the forum is an old medium, so it attracts little

luckily there is quality content in here

[bitmover]

Hello Rikafip

Thanks for the update!!

Here is the updated local posts race!

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

[Perfectbaby]

Hello Rikafip

Thanks for the update!!

Here is the updated local posts race!

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

This is amazing seeing Nigerian local emerging as second after the Russian local board, this is to show that there is a great improvement and the post rate has increased between last 2 -3 weeks now. I am sensing that very soon the Nigerian local board taking over the Russian on their post race, with little math we can see the difference is  just about 330 post and, meaning they can take over within the next few months coming.

[EFS]

The most active members per local board during May 2025

1. yenerbatmaz [94] 
2. mandown [87] 
3. blomen [77] 
4. execijutiere [61] 
5. Mustang Shelby [60] 
6. ajanwalker [56] 
7. RaltcoinsB [57] 
8. RaltcoinsB [57] 
9. ajanwalker [56] 
10. Hvdv [52]

What happened to Turkish top posters? Same names between 6th and 9th places. I don't see such an error on other local boards.

It seems too quiet except for a few local boards. I'm curious about June statistics. We can analyze the differences after the Merit Source changes.

[Lida93]

Hello Rikafip

Thanks for the update!!

Here is the updated local posts race!

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

This is amazing seeing Nigerian local emerging as second after the Russian local board, this is to show that there is a great improvement and the post rate has increased between last 2 -3 weeks now. I am sensing that very soon the Nigerian local board taking over the Russian on their post race, with little math we can see the difference is  just about 330 post and, meaning they can take over within the next few months coming.

I am impressed seeing that the Naija local board it's in top two of this very rating after Russia which has been one of the first oldest local board in the forum. If we can be found at second place next to them, then it's just a matter of time that we oust Russia local board from the top place, if they loseguard  . With our local board moderator @Igebotz tirelessly carrying out his moderation duty a significant level of sanity and posts quality has been improving each passing month from my observation from the monthly reports  of our own local board.

[dkbit98]

And regarding the 10+ posts bracket, Croatian local is the leader with 55% and at the bottom its Romanian local with only 13% of the members who wrote 10+ posts.

I am happy to see our local board is improving a lot in last few months after we got some new active members.
2025 could be a good year for us overall, but let's wait and see big yearly report.

the thing that leaves me surprised is the drop of the Russian board which was the strongest ever a few months ago, so this leaves me very surprised
Do Russian guys have problems connecting by any chance?

They can't access bitcointalk forum for years, so they must use VPN or Tor browser, but maybe there was some new restrictions added in some regions.

[Rikafip]

Hello Rikafip

Thanks for the update!!

Here is the updated local posts race!

Its been updated. Cheers!

This is amazing seeing Nigerian local emerging as second after the Russian local board, this is to show that there is a great improvement and the post rate has increased between last 2 -3 weeks now. I am sensing that very soon the Nigerian local board taking over the Russian on their post race, with little math we can see the difference is  just about 330 post and, meaning they can take over within the next few months coming.

Yep, I wil be very surprised if Nigerian local doesn't end up at the top before end of the year.

What happened to Turkish top posters? Same names between 6th and 9th places. I don't see such an error on other local boards.

Fucking chatgpt gave me shit load of issues (it would have been faster if I made them the usual manual way). I usually use grok for the tables but for whatever reason it was down when i was mking it so I had to use that crap. It will be sorted asap.
Anyway, thanks for letting me know.

I am happy to see our local board is improving a lot in last few months after we got some new active members.
2025 could be a good year for us overall, but let's wait and see big yearly report.

True, and its a proof how all you need are few new members to liven up the board drastically.

They can't access bitcointalk forum for years, so they must use VPN or Tor browser, but maybe there was some new restrictions added in some regions.

I thought so too, but some time ago (like last year) someone wrote that's not entirely true and that they managed to access bitcointalk with russian IP so I have no idea what's the current situation.

[Perfectbaby]

This is amazing seeing Nigerian local emerging as second after the Russian local board, this is to show that there is a great improvement and the post rate has increased between last 2 -3 weeks now. I am sensing that very soon the Nigerian local board taking over the Russian on their post race, with little math we can see the difference is  just about 330 post and, meaning they can take over within the next few months coming.

Yep, I wil be very surprised if Nigerian local doesn't end up at the top before end of the year.

There is every tendency it would likely happened judging from the post merging, and from what I also sense the newly approval of the 3 merits source were also an integral part which yield to the increments of their activities as to be visible and seen to be rewarded a function of growth (as an effort to be seen to get rewarded to increase their chances of ranking up).

[Bitcoin Smith]

@Rikafip, still waiting for the June update, hope you didn't forget.