Recently, yes, but there have been some very colorful members of the forum who've left in the past few years, members who made this place much less dull than it has been as of late.  Lauda, TMAN, TECSHARE, Vod (sort of), and some of the chronic trolls like cryptohunter even.  Right now when I look at new threads I don't see a hell of a lot of interesting ones--although that might be because I have a taste for juicy drama.

Besides that, I'd say the quality of the average post has remained more or less the same, i.e., people are making mediocre posts for whatever signature campaign they're in, making very general comments that don't add much to the threads they're in, and either displaying an utter lack of proficiency in writing or generally being dull and uninteresting.  So yeah, I'd say bitcointalk is asymptotically approaching, albeit very very slowly, what cryptotalk.org was when Yobit started that abomination of a forum a few years ago.

OK, that last sentence is too harsh but I've got a toothache and am ready to strangle the internet.