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?
Maybe I'd say I came after the mixer ban or I haven't been this knowledgeable in the forum before the mixer was banned. I don't have an ideal of the significant changes in the forum all these while otherwise I've always commend the state of discussions with the intellectual users in the forum.
Don't get me wrong please, you could be right but having the view on my own perspective as a forum member who haven't been here for long experiences now, I've reputable honours to those who have effectively been contributing to the welfare of the forum in providing solutions and expanding the obligations of bitcoin discussion at large.
Hopefully there must had been exited of much intellectual forum members as a course of the mixer ban and while I've also been in the forum for a quite time now, I understand that there had been shilling posts and similar topic of discussions revolving around he forum which makes it feel like there's no creativity as the discussions goes on.