[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[Rikafip]

Now I have to add not only one, but two sets of charts to my monthly overview!

Still better than having to make 4 overviews, like I will have to make this month. 2 here (monthly and yearly) and 2 for my local board.

In the end, I’m always slacking!

Hah, tell me about it. 

[joker_josue]

Thank you for another month of review.

Well, how long has it been since I've been in the top 3? Congratulations to this month's winners...

[Rikafip]

Thank you for another month of review.

Well, how long has it been since I've been in the top 3? Congratulations to this month's winners...

Its better to ask when was the last time (if we are not counting last month) that you haven't been in top 3?

I do expect you to stop slacking and back to the top in the next overview. 

[bitmover]

Good job rikafip

Here it is, the updated race chart of all local boards!



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

[blomen]

i enjoy reviewing the data shared for local sections each month, especially for my own section. as the turkish section, i think we can catch up with russia by the end of this month. we were behind them in terms of message counts, but we got quite close to them in december. recently, a few people from our local section were selected as merit sources, and i think this is also an important factor.

[EFS]

Selecting new merit sources to replace inactive ones is good but their merit allocations are still very low. The impact has been very limited. We're still behind other local sections. It's already clear from the merit/post ratio. We'll probably pass the Russian section in message count this month, but improvements are needed in merit distribution. If users who earn merit distribute it fairly, we'll become a faster growing local section.

[taufik123]

Active members per local board during December 2025

During December, 1441 members wrote at least 1 post in one of the local boards, which is almost as same as the month before (1445 during November).

Nigerian is at the top, but not as dominant as with the number of posts, Russian board at the 2nd spot while Indonesian at 3rd is far behind them.

Now Indonesia is indeed lagging behind Nigeria and Russia, but in 2026 the Indonesian Local Forum may be more active and more active members because it has started to appear now.

Some influence the number of Merit Sources is small and some are even inactive making activities in local Indonesia quiet,
some have already applied to become Merit Sources, and I am also one of the people who submitted, but waiting for Theymos to review our application.

Merit Distribution Data throughout 2025

Data Distribusi Merit sepanjang tahun 2025, lalu akan di lanjut update secara berkala mungkin seminggu sekali untuk keberlanjutan Data Distribusi Merit ini.

Good job rikafip

Here it is, the updated race chart of all local boards!



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

Update the data race all the local boards that you pinned show amazing activity for Nigeria and Russia, these two local boards compete with each other,
but some also like my local board Indonesia is also a competitor with Turkey.
this proves that the Bitcointalk Forum is still very crowded, and some local boards are quite probably because of the lack of interest in Bitcoin.

[Daniel91]

Great analysis once again Rikafip, congratulations on your years of hard work on these very interesting analyses that many members follow regularly.
Annual review? I can't wait to see it. 
I see that one constant hasn't changed for years on the Croa
I guess we can expect the publication of local statistics for the Croatian part of the forum soon?

[fillippone]

Now Indonesia is indeed lagging behind Nigeria and Russia, but in 2026 the Indonesian Local Forum may be more active and more active members because it has started to appear now.

I remember when, writing my monthly posts, I was dreaming about the Italian board surpassing your Indonesian one.
We were slowly grinding merits, but then you changed pace and became unreachable.
Well done on successfully luring new members into the forum! There, we failed miserably.

[HustleZ]

Its time for yet another brief monthly overview of local boards activity, and a little bit earlier than last time as I plan to publish the yearly overview by the end of the month.
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Hi Rikafip, hope you are doing well. I just wanted to draw your attention to a slight mishap in the table. In the Pakistan Thread and bangali thread section of top posters when you click on any user's name it goes right to my profile instead of going to their respective profiles. So if you adjust it a bit it would be amazing. Thanks!!

[Rikafip]

Good job rikafip

Here it is, the updated race chart of all local boards!

Thanks, its been updated!

Selecting new merit sources to replace inactive ones is good but their merit allocations are still very low. The impact has been very limited. We're still behind other local sections.

Tbh, I think that some local boards might have unrealsiotuically high merit per post ratio, which makes your looking worse than it actually is. I can only speculate though as you know situation in your own local board much better than me and how many good posts get undermited.

Annual review? I can't wait to see it. 

I've been making those for the last few years.

I guess we can expect the publication of local statistics for the Croatian part of the forum soon?

Very soon. Tomorrow.

I remember when, writing my monthly posts, I was dreaming about the Italian board surpassing your Indonesian one.

I remember the time when my local was beating yours, and now we are nowhere close to you. 

Hi Rikafip, hope you are doing well. I just wanted to draw your attention to a slight mishap in the table. In the Pakistan Thread and bangali thread section of top posters when you click on any user's name it goes right to my profile instead of going to their respective profiles. So if you adjust it a bit it would be amazing. Thanks!!

Yeah links for Bengali and Pakistan have been messed up, and they actually lead to whoever click on them, not exactly on you. Anyway, thanks for letting me know, it will be sorted out.

[taufik123]

I remember when, writing my monthly posts, I was dreaming about the Italian board surpassing your Indonesian one.
We were slowly grinding merits, but then you changed pace and became unreachable.
Well done on successfully luring new members into the forum! There, we failed miserably.

Italian locals used to be strong competitors, and even Italy became one of the active locals a few years ago.
and Local Indonesia starting from 2023-2024, the end of the activity is quite quiet, and many members are no longer active,
perhaps due to the decrease in rewards for bounties and airdrops and also unable to compete with others.

Many new members are indeed struggling to be active in the forum, but some also become farming accounts,
but currently it seems that Lokal Indonesia is also stricter and @AakZaki one of the active hunters lately by revealing many farming accounts.

[dkbit98]

Thank you Rikafip for another useful monthly report, but can you post one big yearly report for year 2025?
I think you did something similar last year, and it would also be interesting to compare last few years.
With all new AI tools maybe someone can use this data and try to predict future of bitcointalk forum.

[Rikafip]

Thank you Rikafip for another useful monthly report, but can you post one big yearly report for year 2025?
I think you did something similar last year, and it would also be interesting to compare last few years.

Yep, I plan to make yearly overview, like I did in the last few years.

I already started working on it and it should be out sometimes next week, probably towards the end.

[taufik123]

-snip-
I already started working on it and it should be out sometimes next week, probably towards the end.

Hopefully it will be completed soon and it looks like it will be a pretty big annual report and some new names will probably come up.
Lokal Board Indonesia has also experienced an increase in activity in 2025 until now and several new names have begun to appear and old names are also starting to be active.

In 2025 there will be a lot of turmoil, including in this forum, and if compared to 2024, there will be a lot of difference.

[DPHOR]

Well to be frank I am still amazed about the supper growth of the Nigerian community and they seems to be unbeatable anytime soon. At first I do used to admire the Russian local board how they do grow, but currently everything seems to change so quickly and rapidly. Anyway, congratulations to the Nigerian community.
9ja dey always worry anywhere they are found. However, thank you for the update!

[Rikafip]

Few years ago I started making yearly overview of the local board activity as a way to compare the progress (or regress), and time has come for 2025 overview.  All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and BitList.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bengali) don't have their own local boards yet, but I hope that's something that will change this year.


Post activity per local board during 2025

During the last year, 161066 posts were made across local boards that are part of this overview, which is a considerable 15% decrease compared to 2024 (192417 posts). Its no surprise that Nigerian local board ended up at the top, followed by Russian and Turkish local boards, while at the same time, Romanian, Greek and Polish are once again at the far left part of the chart.

Also, it is obvious from the chart that majority of local boards had decreased activity, while only a few like Nigerian, Pilipinas and Croatian had a decent growth.

Active members per local board during 2025

During 2025, 5154 members wrote at least 1 post in one of the local boards, which is negligent decrease compared to 2024's number (5188). Surprising thing though is that Russian board leads this chart and not Nigerian, and by quite some margin.

Local board members per amount of posts during 2025

Another chart that shows how many active members each board had during the last year, but this one is more detailed and shows the how many of each type of posters boards have, giving us the better picture of local boards.

So, for example, even though Russian board has double the amount of members that Nigerian board has, the latter has much stronger "core" group of members that wrote 100+ posts during the above mentioned period.

Merit shared per local board during 2025

Given the increase of merit sources across local boards, no surprise that almost all local boards had increased number of merit sent, compared to 2024. So, during the last year, 89244 merit was sent, compared to 2024's 75339 merit.

The one that obviously sticks out is Nigerian local that more than doubled the number of merit sent, and Croatian local that had ~150% increase owing it mainly to a few new very active members

Merit/Post ratio per local board during 2025

Given the overall decrease of the number of posts written and increase of merit sent, no surprise that average meriit per post ratio during 2025 was 0.55, noticeable increased compared to 2024's 0.42 merit per post.

Percentage of merited posts across local boards during 2025

As you can see, differences here are pretty huge, even among the local boards of the similar size. So, Romanian as the least active local board has the highest percentage of merietd posts, while at the same time the 3rd least active local board (Greek) has the lowest percentage of merited posts.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during 2025

During the last year, 1385 members sent while 1788 received merit, which is similar to 2024 numbers ( 1337 senders and 1388 receivers). I have to say that I expected much bigger numbers, considering the increase of merit sent.

Merit per transaction across local boards during 2025

Its surprising to see Greek board with the highest merit per tx, since they have one of the lowest merit per post ratios. then again, in 2024 they had the highest merit per tx so I guess members there prefer to send merit there in bulk.

The most active members per local board during 2025

And for the end of the last year's overview, top 10 active members per local board. For the 4th year in a row leader is joker_josue from Portuguese board with 1948 posts, while 2nd and 3rd spot goes to two members from Russian local, klarki (1704) and Julien_Olynpic (1552). Gj guys, keep it up!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. klarki [1704]	|	1. MaxMueller [1132]	|	1. mandown [1397]	|	1. Ale88 [770]	|	1. joker_josue [1948]	|	1. famososMuertos [740]	|
2. Julien_Olynpic [1552]	|	2. Lakai01 [877]	|	2. execijutiere [991]	|	2. fillippone [698]	|	2. bitmover [1088]	|	2. Don Pedro Dinero [478]	|
3. jokers10 [1171]	|	3. cygan [745]	|	3. yenerbatmaz [788]	|	3. babo [654]	|	3. TryNinja [898]	|	3. darxiaomi [398]	|
4. zasad@ [1040]	|	4. Real-Duke [708]	|	4. Mustang Shelby [712]	|	4. giorgione [523]	|	4. sabotag3x [622]	|	4. Porfirii [383]	|
5. Alex077 [908]	|	5. MinoRaiola [692]	|	5. blomen [682]	|	5. Plutosky [455]	|	5. alegotardo [581]	|	5. Hispo [350]	|
6. Numeral [904]	|	6. Soonandwaite [660]	|	6. ajanwalker [648]	|	6. xenomorfo [410]	|	6. Forsyth Jones [473]	|	6. darbitmobilerecovery [253]	|
7. safar1980 [833]	|	7. Koal-84 [588]	|	7. Silence Scream [537]	|	7. Lillominato89 [379]	|	7. Pumared [453]	|	7. danadc [161]	|
8. xandry [755]	|	8. Unknown01 [530]	|	8. Black Mbaye [523]	|	8. gbianchi [339]	|	8. rdluffy [423]	|	8. Hagart [137]	|
9. Etranger [577]	|	9. willi9974 [501]	|	9. W Jr. [515]	|	9. conilmionome [328]	|	9. tg88 [385]	|	9. seoincorporation [127]	|
10. eisen33 [560]	|	10. mole0815 [475]	|	10. eightdots [504]	|	10. bastisisca [306]	|	10. criptoevangelista [369]	|	10. sausalitox [124]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Chikito [432]	|	1. patrickus [266]	|	1. gunhell16 [457]	|	1. slackovic [442]	|	1. Charles-Tim [778]	|	1. Kavelj22 [371]	|
2. mu_enrico [365]	|	2. Becassine [211]	|	2. Peanutswar [433]	|	2. katanic97 [428]	|	2. Floxynice [451]	|	2. khaled0111 [307]	|
3. punk.zink [278]	|	3. Danydee [205]	|	3. blockman [398]	|	3. ovcijisir [352]	|	3. Jubilee58 [350]	|	3. yhiaali3 [305]	|
4. joniboini [271]	|	4. Saint-loup [142]	|	4. cryptoaddictchie [385]	|	4. Pmalek [346]	|	4. Joy- maker [342]	|	4. GxSTxV [120]	|
5. MAAManda [254]	|	5. G.Seed [105]	|	5. Mr. Magkaisa [335]	|	5. Rikafip [336]	|	5. Africolo [339]	|	5. satoshyat.team [102]	|
6. Luzin [253]	|	6. paid2 [95]	|	6. bhadz [315]	|	6. examplens [232]	|	6. Tonimez [332]	|	6. OmegaStarScream [77]	|
7. abhiseshakana [228]	|	7. yohannc [44]	|	7. tech30338 [298]	|	7. btcltcdigger [227]	|	7. Makus [326]	|	7. BADERO [76]	|
8. jcojci [209]	|	8. GrosWesh [36]	|	8. arwin100 [286]	|	8. dkbit98 [196]	|	8. Yablee0 [320]	|	8. hugeblack [71]	|
9. Husna QA [209]	|	9. Halab [33]	|	9. GreatArkansas [277]	|	9. Trofo [194]	|	9. Mate2237 [314]	|	9. Ochan_yazo_tochant [69]	|
10. maydna [195]	|	10. oscar2000 [32]	|	10. Fredomago [261]	|	10. cryptofrka [182]	|	10. Mpamaegbu [308]	|	10. albon [53]	|

Polish	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Romanian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bengali*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. cygan [242]	|	1. Bitcoin Smith [357]	|	1. Ultegra134 [125]	|	1. GazetaBitcoin [203]	|	1. qurbanshah02 [723]	|	1. DYING_S0UL [219]	|
2. pawel7777 [73]	|	2. JSRAW [272]	|	2. cryptosize [112]	|	2. NeuroticFish [91]	|	2. JunaidAzizi [414]	|	2. Bd officer [204]	|
3. Tytanowy Janusz [41]	|	3. pawanjain [198]	|	3. condoras [97]	|	3. TryNinja [18]	|	3. ZAINmalik75 [330]	|	3. Crypto Library [192]	|
4. wwzsocki [40]	|	4. TheUltraElite [139]	|	4. alani123 [61]	|	4. othell_rogue [5]	|	4. Cheema02 [309]	|	4. Nothingtodo [127]	|
5. TryNinja [18]	|	5. IIrik11 [108]	|	5. BlackHatCoiner [54]	|	5. MJWALK [5]	|	5. MusaPk [275]	|	5. God Of Thunder [103]	|
6. stafstor [7]	|	6. LucyFurr [66]	|	6. apogio [37]	|	6. IonCreanga [4]	|	6. GbitG [243]	|	6. Z_MBFM [97]	|
7. EXMON [6]	|	7. libert19 [60]	|	7. Makis Kotzampasis [11]	|	7. UsdtBucuresti [4]	|	7. Rustam Meraj [194]	|	7. Shishir99 [91]	|
8. ertil [5]	|	8. M47AK16 [47]	|	8. Dimitris [8]	|	8. jedaite [3]	|	8. UmerIdrees [192]	|	8. Mahiyammahi [81]	|
9. stwenhao [5]	|	9. henry1111 [42]	|	9. BitcoinsGreece [6]	|	9. mihaybus [3]	|	9. Publictalk792 [184]	|	9. Review Master [78]	|
10. aaaaa1221 [4]	|	10. henmark [40]	|	10. coctailnuts [6]	|	10. Nzbindexer [3]	|	10. ThemePen [169]	|	10. LDL [63]	|

[coinrifft]

I just noticed on the Merit per transaction across local boards during 2025.

When I clicked on the username of the most active users in Pakistan and Bengali, there will be an error,

The user whose profile you are trying to view does not exist.

Perhaps you need to check the link on the username?

[Rikafip]

When I clicked on the username of the most active users in Pakistan and Bengali, there will be an error,

Hm, this has happened 2nd time in a row with Pakistan and Bengali members. I guess I'll have to double check their links next time.

Anyway, thanks for letting me know, its been sorted now.

[Chinesebaby]

Post activity per local board during 2025

During the last year, 161066 posts were made across local boards that are part of this overview, which is a considerable 15% decrease compared to 2024 (192417 posts). Its no surprise that Nigerian local board ended up at the top, .

Also, it is obvious from the chart that majority of local boards had decreased activity, while only a few like Nigerian, Pilipinas and Croatian had a decent growth.

Wow.. This is quite impressive, and a big shout out to the Nigeria community, my distinguish local board for pulling up a total of 39,356 post through out the year 2025, which is actually a 60% increased of the previous year 2024 (i.e 24,557 post). So a big congratulations once again you guys @Nigerian local board, you guys did it.. let's go again for another 60% this new year 2026 by targeting making a total of over 60,000 post.