Mate, I'm really happy to see a big increase like this in the Indonesian Local Board because people are starting to care about the quality of posts. I just hope they can maintain and also improve the quality of their posts in the future so that we can actually increase the number of merit distributed every month. It was a good performance that I expected from them, but unfortunately I didn't contribute much to merit last January because I didn't have enough sMerit.
Yeah it's nice to see Indonesian board among most merited ones as you are very active board. I do think that you still have a loot of room for improvement despite this increase as when i started making these overviews almost 2 years ago, you had pretty much similar amount of posts (~1200) and something like 50% more merits shared than you had last month. Then again, I have no idea whether post quality remained the same like it was before.
I guess it is related to forums in general, which have been declining for some time now and there are no signs that activity will pick up any time soon.
Yeah its a general trend among forums (at least the ones I am pat of) so bitcointalk is not exception here.
Maybe a new forum software, better suited to mobile platforms, is in order?
To be honest I don't think that would reverse the trend, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't help to some degree to slow the decline. I personally don't mind not having mobile version, but from the experience on some other forums, I did notice that people prefer using those.