I would like to know why is months summary not updated on forum stats:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=statsI can see stats only till December 2017. Is it being done to hide the number of registrations from competing forums ?
I think all stats went about that time. As user stats for individuals have been inaccessible since then. My guess is this is something to do with that. I don't think there was an announcement.
I'm not sure there are any true rivals to this forum it's fairly specific for a certain part of the Internet and it's the first main one for bitcoin I think.