Why forums' traffic are decreasing

Forums were the Social Media back in the day. I'm thinking forums are being replaced by Facebook, LinkedIn etc and other platforms.

They are minor fluctuations from what I have seen. I am sure Google cracked down on them a bit though just like with article marketing. But honestly WF, DP etc have a solid user base and affiliate type programs which I think will let them stand the test of time and not really be to effected by whatever Google throws their way.

Maybe because:
1. Global economic crisis,
2. which causes too many scammers rise,
3. and people really hard and not believe again to earn money online today.
IMO.

Sometimes when I'm alone, I like to roll around on the floor and pretend I'm a rooster.

Here we go:

http://www.similarweb.com/website/warriorforum.com

August, 2015: 6,700,000
October, 2015: 4,300,000

Not wishing to pull a "Jack Nicholson said this was going to happen," I did mention to WF Admin, and quite some time back, that the virtually unchecked forum spam was going to hurt their search rankings. A platform like WF has a great deal of Google juice. New threads are often indexed in minutes. What happens when spam threads are created in minutes, and sometimes by the hundred? They're indexed, often in minutes. Google, as we all should know, are somewhat fastidious about keeping their SERPs clean. A lot of indexed spam? Call it the equivalent of someone walkzing around in dirty undies. Not entirely desirable. Weekends are worse on WF, where a diminushed level of moderation, or none at all, allow the spamming to go unchecked. Question is, how long before Google takes action, assuming it hasn't already? Put it this way: if you owned Google and you knew about the problem, would you sit idly by? Exactly.

Anyway, those are the broad strokes. I could go into more detail, however - Saturday morning!

- Tom

hi
Someone wonders if it is the responsibility of the great success of Facebook, or the fact that many forums have seen deleted entire sections, illegal, or fault "of the animals that inhabit the forest"?
* many prefer social networks because they are faster and more immediate, quickly chatting with your anyone at the same time and other things.
By contrast, however, often we see little content, distracting!

It may be due to the fact that the forums have violated the new rules and regulations in place from Google, a company responsible for the ranking of webpages. that however can not only be the reason. Today, very many forums are coming up and have a specified niche which makes it easier for the users to engage in live discussions. I suspect that when you come across a platform that is well better than where you were before, you will not have the pressure to go back.

Doesn't matter. How does this question increase my bottom line from WarriorForum traffic?

I don't know how wide spread it was, but in October 2014 at least 300 forums were hacked (I know because I had accounts on each of them and, yes, that does mean I had three hundred accounts hacked). Most of the forums were fairly small and aimed at authors/writers/self-publishers, and it appeared that it was one single hacker hacking all of the forums.

At first I had thought it was just someone pulling a prank on me personally and hacking all my accounts, but a few weeks later, I discovered that on KB's Writer's Cafe alone, there were at least 700 other authors whose accounts had also been hacked that same week as mine I've since found out that by March 2015, some 2,000 members left KB as a result of their accounts also being hacked.

And that was just one forum - whoever did this hacked into 300+ forums, and members (fellow authors) were all leaving all of the forums, not just those forums which were hacked, but EVERY forum thy visited, fearing the hacker troll who did this had more hacking plans up their sleeve.

In the months since March 2015, I have talked to hundreds more forum members who also said, due to the nature of HOW the hacker had attacked them on those forums they too were leaving ALL forums.

So I can account for at least 3,000 formerly active forum members (many who also had WF accounts and also left WF when they left KB and the others) whom I personally knew for many years (I've been on forums since 1997) (and many I actually meet offline)... and those are just the people whom I knew - it is logical to assume that these 3,000 were only a small fraction of the people whose accounts were hacked between August 2014 and April 2015 (when the hack took place) and that the 300 forums I knew about, were likewise only a small fraction of the forums that got hacked. It is also likely that MOST of the people who were effected, simply stopped using forums without telling anyone they left.

So that's ONE reason for a mass leaving of a lot of users on a lot of forums.

Sure, that's only a small amount of members leaving a small amount of forums, but when you combine events like this, to increases in social media use, and Google cracking down on forums, and any one of several other reasons, it starts to add up to A LOT of people leaving A LOT of forums, all around the same time, but not necessarily all for a single reason, but rather many smaller reasons which just happened to all happen around the same time.