I went to reddit to see what the scripting looks like. I opened up /r/space; its a fucking graveyard. The highest commented thread is all jokes and yuk yuks. The mega thread has a paltry 400 comments after three days. The recent Soyuz launch has one pitiful thread. The /r/astronomy subreddit is all but dead, no topic with more than 221 comments on the front page. two years ago that place was hopping. There are three major star parties coming up and not a single comment on any of them. One of the biggest trade shows, SCAE and not a single thread. That subreddit has almost 150K subs. This is the first time I've opened Reddit in, oh, two months? has traffic fallen that much from two years ago?
I got so fed up with dealing with online shit that I walked away from the Internet for about two years. I wonder if more are doing the same. My astronomy forum has seen an uptick in activity, and looking at Imgur struggling to keep its servers from melting, I'm wondering if people are not saying "I can go to Imgur and see all the images on Reddit, and not have to deal with the reddit community." Fark is still there, and I go there once in a while. But other than Fark and Hubski, I just don't care about online communities any more.