Its no brainer that no one can beat up this forum when it comes to crypto and to those numbers you have seen into that place (cryptotalk) is mostly alt accounts that been created by the same user just to abuse those
few satoshis per post and as said above that i already expecting on what would happen if that said pay-per-post thing would end and it would goes the same on active users into that forum which signifies that
people only hang out to that place for them just to milk out some sats not totally concern into its importance.
The model represented by cryptotalk cannot compete bitcointalk because they are not at same level. Bitcointalk is not a pey-per-podt forum, while cryptotalk is.
Bitcointalk is a mission or a institute and Cryptotalk is just heaven for spammers or time wasters nothing else its future is also not good as any shit coin this can disappear any time without any prior notice.