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  • I am running a forum (about web technologies), and have been doing so for about 24 years (damn. I’m old). I had some spam problems, but was able to get rid of it.

    It probably helps that I wrote the software myself (24 years ago there weren’t many forum software projects).

    But the traffic is declining. The peak was around 2003-2005, with >500 posts per day, and is slowly declining since then with a massive drop last year (about 19 posts per day). Young people only rarely use the forum anymore, despite massive modernization efforts, and the older people slowly disappear.

        1998 |   6686
        1999 |  40528
        2000 |  70379
        2001 |  41129
        2002 | 171294
        2003 | 203642
        2004 | 204685
        2005 | 173659
        2006 | 150000
        2007 | 135936
        2008 | 126283
        2009 |  94894
        2010 |  70333
        2011 |  48691
        2012 |  31197
        2013 |  30606
        2014 |  30227
        2015 |  29334
        2016 |  25472
        2017 |  27505
        2018 |  28551
        2019 |  22366
        2020 |  17250
        2021 |  12794
        2022 |  10135
        2023 |   7151
    

    If the trend continues we will shut it down in a year or two.