January is behind us, time for another monthly overview of local boards activity.
In order to make these charts, data was taken from @DdmrDdmr
Merit Dashboard. This is just a brief overview but if you want to check your local board in more details, I suggest that you check that tool.
Post activity per local board during January 2021Top of the chart remained pretty much the same like in last few months, with Turkish board once again at the top followed by Russian and German. Due high amount of deleted posts last month we miss French board on this chart, which is usually among top 4-5 most active boards. It is nice to see once very active boards (Pilipinas and Indonesian) slowly recovering, hopefully this month wasn't an exception and they continue this trend.
Two most active communities without local boards (Pakistan and Bangladesh) had decreased actvitiy which is a not a good thing if they want to get their own local boards. eventually.
Merit shared per local board during January 2021
Compared to previous month, amount of merit shared across local boards remained pretty much the same (5230 merit shared during January, down from 5360). Like in previous chart, names at the top remained the same, but this time Russian is at the top while German dropped to 2nd place due ~25% decrease of the merit shared.
Two active local boards had big incrase in merit shared; French with 545 merits shared which is 70% increase compared to previous month and Indonesian board with 275% increase, going from only 50 merits shared during December 2020 to 187 last month.
Opposite to that, communities without local board (except Serbian) had merit decrease. Afaik they don't have their own merit sources so it's hard for them to remain at similar merit amounts each month and will fluctuate a lot.
Merit senders/receivers per local board during January 2021With a few standard exceptions, this chart generally follows the amount of merit shared which makes sense.
Merit/Post ratio per local board for Januray 2020Like Romanian board last month, this time Dutch board sticks out when it comes to merit/post ratio. Generally, boards with low post count are easily affected and ratio can vary a lot, giving wrong impressions and to somewhat alleviate that, I've decided to keep 12 month ratio metric. As usual, Arabic and Italian board are high on the chart, and same thing can be said about the bottom.
Just a reminder not to take merit.post ratio chart too seriosuly as even 12 month ratio can paint wrong picture due deleted posts, let alone monthly ratio.
The most active members during January 2021 per local boardThis list is made thanks to @TryNinja and his
https://ninjastic.space/Even though I planned to make make this list once a-per year, I've decided to keep it and publish it on the monthly basis with rest of the charts. I've excluded dead boards like Korean, Japanese, Hebrew etc as their activity is so low that probably there wouldn't be more than 1-2 names on the list as it's full of nuked spammers.
If you notice nuked user among those names (that can happen in less active boards) please let me know and it will be sorted. I looked for those when making the lists but some might have slipped through.