I've been out of the loop for a few years. What was 8ch/v/ traffic like before it went down last year? And if it's way lower, do we know why users didn't return?
I checked halfchan and it's somehow worse than ever.
I'll bank on it. As silly as it sounds, image boards are the last piece of the old internet that I cared about. Everything else is either corporate or purely administrative.
Maybe not such a bad thing to have fewer reasons to browse the internet anyways.