The fundamental objective of Bitcointalk and it's community is to continue to have a place for the messages by Satoshi to be stored in their original form so people continue to investigate and read by themselves what satoshis intended for decentralized currencies, specially Bitcoin, which is the most important cryptocurrency on the market.

From there and since much time has passed since Satoshi moved out from here there have been other interests, visions and goals built by the community and it mostly depends on the section you visit. People from the gambling section want to win money by gambling or fun, people from the collectible section seeks to get products of limited access related to the culture of Bitcoin and alternative currencies, and those who visit the economics section of the forum want to discuss news and also get ideas to improve their own personal economical situation.