A big factor is the UK law made all these strong drugs you could quite literally buy through the post illegal in June; and there has been such a backlash from the hedonistic culture of the 2000s that folk here (and in other countries as well) have elected rightwing governments that make every bit of fun restricted or illegal.
Added to which even in the “good days” A lot of people wanted to get away from doing excessive drugs so moved away from this site.
There were also a lot of young adults here who were at University so were forced to grow up so they could pass their exams etc, and when you apply for jobs now there is monitoring of your social network activity which causes people to stay away from sites like this.
Other folk on here got good tech jobs for companies / countries where those in charge less liberal views and they were older and had families so couldn’t afford to risk their careers.
I also suspect that the economic depression and age filters on broadband connections are making it less easy for young people to get to this site.
Many have to live with their parents still; it is awkward to ask mum and dad “please turn off the porno filter so I can look at a site about drugs…” even if they have the code to do this its likely to be linked to their parents email address and quite possible an audit email is sent when the setting are changed.
If you use a PAYG mobile phone in UK it is sometimes blocked unless the account is registered as “over 18 content permitted”.
Gaz (even I can’t spell his current screen name; he tends to swap and combine languages in each version) does pop in from time to time though..
