I don't want to correlate this forum's comedown with the mixer ban, even though I've thought of it and it's likely one major factor, but what's the current picture of Bitcointalk according to you? To me, it's declining in genuine interest.
We're dealing with uninteresting topics. The "hottest" topic of discussion in the last months is Ordinals, followed by ETFs, and then an endless list of speculation-related threads, which were always a "thing" in the past, but gosh, that just seems like our sole concern nowadays.
Now, to that, add that we've lost valuable members, some of which were intellectually influential, and you have an Internet board filled with mostly crap. What's the problem?
I mean honestly maybe banning the mixers had a lot to do with it, but I think that shouldn't be considered the full reason for your allegations that the bitcoin talk forum is getting worse and worse. If anything this forum just offboarded a lot of unwanted attention should government authorities try to come after btalk for allowing it. Was that a breach of freedom & of privacy to lose this ability on the forum? Well, yes. But you can't blame the powers that be for making the decision that they made.
I think that this forum could honestly be a lot better by just adding a few features. Like for example the ability to mention someone like with an @ and their username and for that to give that user a notification. The reason that these posts are all so much and so compiling is because there is no differentiator like that unless you have like a telegram bot to help you but even so you have to keep track of which posts you're being referenced in and its just a lot of work lol... am I the only one who feels this way? There are just some really super basic things that could probably easily be implemented.