Quote from: KingScorpio on March 15, 2019, 08:42:08 AM

<> so why these huge continuous loses then? <>

Well, due to all the crypto related factors that are now in reversal in relation to the hype around the beginning of 2018. There is an undeniable relationship between how the crypto market evolves, and how the number of forum members evolve, or the number of posts that they create over time. Being in a bear market, and after the ICO sphere general fiasco, we cant expect the forum to be thriving in a diametric opposite direction than the general market.

Perspective also needs to be taken into consideration. Just yesterday I posted that the number of posts per month now seems to be similar to that of the first half of 2017 (see re:Statistics of user registrations on Bitcointalk 2017-2019. Like I said there:

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on March 14, 2019, 04:52:52 PM

<...> The number of created post per month is dropping to similar numbers as those around the first half of 2017. There is an obvious correlation to crypto hype and value variance, and the numbers are interpretable according to ones perspective. For a person signed-up during early 2018, things are really quiet now. For a person who signed-up in 2016 or before mid 2017, numbers seem to be training back to those days. <>

Looking at the chart on the referenced post, the 1 merit for Jr. Members introduced in mid September 2018 did not seem to alter the trend at all (number of posts per month), but rather continued its downward pattern, which, as expected, is in consonance to market (see for example chart comparison on re: Bitcointalk is Dying?).

Even the data provided by @theymos, while keeping what are probably decent numbers, when seen from a historical perspective (the provided link to the Ad stats has data going back to April 2012) shows the above.

The way I see it, Bitcointalk seems to be rather aligned to how Bitcoin/cypto is behaving currently. That is natural and rather much unavoidable.