Thanks Febo I think you might be right. I'll give it a try on some other sites, however it looks like the addition of the reward platform is making a positive impact.

https://medium.com/viberate-blog/viberate-community-sets-a-new-record-3e597908f36c

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*jgZodW9unkLy6JZbp_4wxw.png

To me this looks good for the long term growth of the platform. Also since the dev team has been delivering everything on time so far I am hoping the platform will succeed eventually.