You completely missed the point I was trying to make, so let me try again. I didn't say that bitcointalk is not popular anymore, I was referring to @Laudanum and his claim that bitcointalk is dying, by saying that forums are not as popular as they used to be (and that's a simple fact) so no wonder that bitcointalk is not as active as before. Go check any stats, and you will see that post numbers are indeed lower than year ago, let alone 2017/2018.
There are people on various social media, communities in Reddit look for various services on the forum and mostly post them here.
The forum is not dying, Leechers without doing any Seeding are leaving the forum or are being kicked out for various reasons and the competition has increased and Spammers are decreased, I'm sure they'll find other community forums to throw their trash, This forum has already had enough.
Not to mention all who left with leechers there had been good people in the community that left because of life problems and it's not their fault.
Where exactly I mentioned other crypto forums? I said "various forums", and that didn't imply crypto forums specifically, but forums in general.
Maybe he's referring to forums like altcointalk (Idk if that's the real name)