I think you guys are being greedy.
your approaching this forum traffic like a manager approaches a job demanding greater job efficiency. when in truth this forum has the most resources in the entire world (basically) compared to any other diary orientated service. you have the best resources compiled in the entire world and you guys are demanding greater service. im just saying be gratefull.
there will always be fluctuations in traffic, this forums traffic will change based on the current number of people undergoing leg lengthening and writing diaries. at the moment it is true a great many people for the first time are just participating in discussion but not writing diaries because of privacy concerns.
the vets are not gone they are just living life and coming back every so often, for example ant was not logged on for like a year and then came back 2wice 3 months apart, he answered a few threads but I suspect mainly participated in private message for serious candidates for leg lengthening.
veterans when they come back and post will be private messaged by people who are actually serious about lengthening, a lot of people who post in threads are only researching, they are not serious about lengthening, they may never even get leg lengthening or might get it in like 10 years. why are veterans going to come back to answer questions of infinticimable value. but rather I find the vets always respond to private message in detail.
so in summery, nothing is wrong with the traffic, it is expected, there are many veterans here, and the other veterans still pop in but are much more prone to answer private messages in detail from my experience, this being due to the fact that all the information you need is already on this forum. there is no point for them to waste their time commenting unless to update their diary.
stop looking for faults that are not there, and understand that this forum has everything you need. I think if you want to increase the traffic then the administators need to devise a method to increase privacy, such as the option to remove time stamps, and this can go to a topic labeled no time stamp diaries. something like this. because that is the main issue for traffic being lowered. we don't need to increase traffic but this would be how to achieve a revamp in diaries if it was so wanted.
the admins should come together and write a list of all the reason (or make a thread asking people for the reasons) asking for what makes people not want to write a diary. then come together and discuss if its possible to create a new section that can circumnavigate these reasons.