[Jiggly]

The number of members joining, the number of members browsing, the number of members posting, etc. How would you compare it all between now and 2019?

Spoiler: From 2019

Spoiler: From 2021

The numbers speak for themselves. There's some outliers, so I'd take them with a grain of salt.

I spent about 5 minutes comparing the numbers/activity across the periods you showed for each year... It's more impressive than I thought xD

[mothered]

It seems to me that the forums have not died rather than faded into the background due to their "nature".

It Is more to do with lack of coverage/exposure. Entities that reference this board and many others, are few and far between.

On the other hand, social media Is all over the net In countless articles and ads, hence quite easy to locate and also entice people to register an account.

[DonDmitri]

I hope forums would not go away, actually Ive only dicovered that there are communities like these in the clearnet and much more in the dark. When I was introduced to the internet when I was 15, Facebook and Yahoo mails were the only social platforms I know, And I hope forums like this wont go away very soon as I am only starting to enjoy hanging out in these kind o platforms, or whatever you call it. its nice

[Alexej27]

They arent dying, i agree that there are less new ones but the existing ones are stable