Does anyone have any accurate data on the amount of active members in the Bitcoin boards?
Does the administration need to do anything to influence traffic?
No, in my opinion. Bitcoin does not change with the times and does not market itself, this forum is a reflection of Bitcoin and should mimick it.
Comparing bitcointalk to other forums is not necessary imo, as any other forum run the way this is would have lost almost all of their userbase, regular social platforms constantly market their service and make regular changes to their software, btt on the other hand has had the exact same outlook for over ten years with no updates, but still retains a good number of active users.
As I've mentioned in another thread, a new forum software would not matter much in attracting new users, but only to add changes that majority of members have been requesting.
I do not agree that Bitcointalk should mimic Bitcoin they are completely separate entities and are different in the ways they grow. If we carry on with the current user projection then Bitcointalk would need to advertise to try something to try and get more people registering. If you take a look at the forum currently you will see there is a lack of new members and only existing members contributing to discussions. Over time these existing members will leave for different reasons and if we are not replacing those members with new members then the forum will quickly become a ghost town. Even when Bitcoin hit a new ATH the amount of new accounts being registered was much less this time than in 2017 so something is definitely effecting that.