I remember in the past. Every GE this forum will be exploded and caused server to be slowed. Viewership hits millions and with thousands of people start posting comments. How come this GE look like Ghost town? Is the night still early and the big show in this forum starts only tomorrow late evening? There has to be some explanations from Sam about what is going on here.
Nothing going on that isn't unexpected.
In the old days there was no other platform to air views and those who wanted to vent their frustrations were too scared to reveal their identities.
Nowadays the fear factor is gone and there is facebook, youtube, insta, twitter, whatsapp, telegram etc plus most of the new generation have no problems posting with their real identities. Why curse a minister in sammyboy.com when you can go to their facebook page and fuck them directly!
Your estimates of past traffic is also way out. At the peak during elections in the good old days about 2300 messages were posted daily. The peak for the 2020 election is 1200 messages so it has dropped by 50%. Viewership was never in the millions. It was 200,000 page views daily while the sex forum had 1.3 million page views.
Lastly this forum has far too much rubbish and many serious posters have gone elsewhere or have given up. Who wants to log in and find that the majority of new posts daily are about ginfreely's private parts and valium's broomstick? The pair of them have pretty much destroyed the ambience here.
I'm honestly surprised that there is still a core group that have remained.