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?
The only member that we lost recently is o_e_l_e_o, or who else? But I noticed that some members are not active like before on technical boards. Some people still see this forum educative and interesting. If mixers were not banned on this forum, many people will still later not post again. Be it as it may be now, there will surely be changes. Many people that were here in 2012 were not here in 2018 when Leo joined this forum. Many of us posting today also may no more be here in the next 5 to 10 years.
Maybe those who have made large contributions to the forum feel that they no longer have the enthusiasm or purpose of making posts on the forum since mixers were banned on this forum cmiiw
I see other forums accepting mixer campaigns but that is not enough to attract more visitors there, so in my opinion this forum is actually still the main destination for those who want to discuss and benefit from bitcoin and altcoins
but I doubt that in the next 5 to 10 years this forum will be quiet, from the data on the number of visitors to this forum it can actually be said to be still stable in the last few years and there are still paid BTC campaigns here, so this forum will still be busy