Local boards are an area of potential great growth. My local board, Spanish, is clearly underused in relation to the world population that speaks the language, and currently shows a great gap between current posting activity, and potential posting activity. There are other factors to weigh-in such as wealth, culture, technological settlement, and so forth, but the gap is pretty wide, and I do hope it eventually boosts (maybe SEO can help).
Just a additions to the data reflected in the OP:
- The Birthday of the Local Boards I think are, in some instances, that of a prior Language Thread. For example, the Spanish Local board figures as the oldest, born on the 24/09/2010, but it was really constituted as a local board on the 19/05/2011 (see
Please create a Local/Castellano (Spanish) forum). This is just a technicality that I found to be true for my local board, albeit an important one for the board itself.
- Dealing with averages has its particularities. The longer the period of time, the more data points we flatten out into a single value, losing some perspective as to evolution of the values. Dealing with posts count numbers is a bit of a p.i.t.a., and at some point, I decided to follow these values for local board (not local threads) on a monthly basis, in order to get a better reading of post count evolution, and specially on its distribution over main+first level childboards (i.e. in order to separate Altcoin stuff from the rest).
For example, the Russian local board is currently generating just over 20k posts per month:
https://public.tableau.com/shared/W5QB867G7?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_linkThe Russian postcount, for example, differs from the overall average quite a bit (just under 700 new net(*) posts per day last month vs 1504 all time average). Altcoin now represents there around 7,88% of newly created posts, whilst on January 2018 it was 46,76%. Its interesting to play around with the data (alas, manually retrieved each month), and retrieve information in the process.
(*) Net: created - deleted - moved