Thu May 18, 2006 9:16 am by Chips
It's quiet, true. I think there are several reasons why it's so quiet though - because the sites traffic recorded peaks during march (the site entered the top 15,000 visited sites on the internet at that time, now it's back down to around 70,000) and still gets plenty of people visiting (and new people).
I'd imagine the sheer volume/daunting appearance of all those forums doesn't help in one respect, and also the "stifling" nature in which discussions get accused of being political as soon as anything mentioning any country or other thing occurs (they had an advert in the UK about not talking politics to counter people's apathy towards voting... pointing out that nearly any topic is actually political in some respect).
Of course, I'm in the middle of exams, and I guess many others are too - which is certain to put some dampners on convo.