When the topic is not getting love anymore, its rarely about not being used or gambled, it is usually there is nothing new to talk about. Go take a look at chips' website and you will see that it is still gambled probably as much as it used to be, I haven't felt any different so far, or even if there is a lower number of gambling it must be so little that I didn't feel it.
However in here there are really nothing new to talk about so people do not message, which shows that maybe there is lack of promotion PR, and I do not say promotion, I mean promotion "PR" which is basically telling the whole world that you are doing a promotion. I have seen people having 10k giveaway and spend another 10k on signature campaigns of that 10k giveaway, instead of having a 20k giveaway, which is totally correct move because if nobody knows then it means nothing.
The idea of a bitcointalk topic is three fold ; one is the place giving us things to look out for, marketing or campaigns or promotions or bonuses etc etc and share every news as well from new features to some improvements maintenance etc, secondly it is for people to complain if there is anything wrong, so let's say you wanted to withdraw but it has been 24 hours and there is no news about it?
You come here and write, it works if you are a legit person because then they take a look and if you are legit then they help you (but if you are doing something against the rules then they let you know as well), and the last one is for gamblers of this place to have a place to chat with each other, it is rare to find friends to gamble together so you end up meeting with people here, or even telegram groups and you gamble while chatting which makes it happier. So it is not always about just not having any new things, there are other reasons to chat here as well.