Why is PA dying?

It seems like prog is gaining even more steam in the mainstream. So I was just wondering why ppl think this site is languishing and what we could do to improve the community and get the word out. I remember when there would be 1000s of new posts a day. Now it seems lucky if we break 100, discounting the JFF section. 

Sometimes people are just busy. I usually post a lot more but damn if this systems analysis and design project isn't completely hindering my free time for the next couple of weeks.

In the last 24 hours, we had posts in 130+ topics, and more than one post in most of them - be careful not to mistake thread count for post count. Apart from that, the days we had over 1000 posts per day occurred in the times the Velvet Room was at it's peak and people organised massive 'band competition polls'- and those weren't the most useful topic when it comes to promoting music. Besides, if you really want to promote prog, the PA database and modern social media sites are more effective means - in general people don't come here to promote music, but socialize with like spirits.

Angelo wrote: people organised massive 'band competition polls'-

I remember those, what a pain

Angelo wrote: in general people don't come here to promote music, but socialize with like spirits.

yes I would say, after being a reference source, this is  largely a social experience (music-related of course)
 

Rumours of her demise are greatly exaggerated...

For me, looks like people facing progressive rock have got more sincere and cooled down.

The site's a bit flat at the moment - it comes in waves - sometimes it's busy, sometimes it's not, but there is always activity somewhere. What have we at the moment? - 25 members online while Europe is asleep, early evening on the East Coast - teatime on the West - it's okay, could be better, could be worse... I imagine a lot of college students have projects, asignments and assesments due soon - those finals are getting closer by the day.  

I haven't really noticed to be honest.

JFF is just an indication that people can only say so much about one subject (music) before they start repeating themselves... the only advantage of PA over single-artist forums is that once we've exhausted all we know of one band we can move onto another until all there is left to argue about is "what is Prog" for the gazillionth time, and the fact we have members who like fun.

I'm going to have to blame it on the libertarians. 

I don't think a drop off in postings or visitations is a sign of dieing.  More like entropy.