A month ago, the highest paying campaigns on this forum: $250 per week.
A month ago, the highest paying campaigns on this altscointalk: $0.
Now: the only campaign that pays the most in this forum: $150.
On altscoinstalk: $45.
A year from now: we'll see.
All I see here is that "altscoinstalk" can expect a lot of competition! If it's that easy to get people to earn $45 per week on a new forum, there's a lot of money to be made for the forum itself too.
Nothing can takeaway over 14 years of history of this forum.
There have been Bitcointalk clones before

It shouldn't be that easy to clone the entire site again, but on a different domain with different rules.
I think it's only a matter of time before forums as a place for discussions become a thing of the past
I don't think so. That would only leave a few "social media" ruled by multinationals. I don't ever visit those, and I'm not alone in that.