I think that just as the forum traffic is slowly declining, there are many other sites on the internet where traffic is busy, as Darker45 says, and even growing.
In the near future one of the things that might happen if a balance between declining forum traffic and increasing traffic elsewhere is to be found, is signature campaigns remaining ongoing but payouts significantly reduced. It will be interesting to see how this develops.Companies pay users based on the amount of people they think will see the signature that the users wear. That's why during a bull run when there are so many users coming over here looking at Bitcoin Discussion, rates naturally get higher. And of course there was a perpetual demand for mixers, which for a long time had their largest user base here, so the high rates they paid come from that.
