I don't know what you are basing that judgment on but it's an incorrect assumption really. If you go to the bottom of the Forums Index and click on MORE STATS the click on the month of September you can see that it's been a very busy month for new topics, new posts and new members. It's gonna exceed last month by a good deal if the current rates continue. I'll try to post a copy of it below but am not certain if it will work. Yeah as I figured it didn't turn out to look like a chart. I don't know how to make it look right but the numbers in order are: Date, New Topics, New Posts, New Members, Most Online and Page Views.
August totals are at the bottom and as you can see we're rapidly approaching those numbers this month already even tho we have a long way to go yet in this month. We'll exceed 26,000 members before the month ends and likely exceed 27,000 by end of year.
September 2008 1002 8676 258 742 1113190
2008-09-01 61 568 24 504 69501
2008-09-02 65 591 24 700 64400
2008-09-03 53 581 14 647 61421
2008-09-04 58 603 14 677 96124
2008-09-05 60 576 15 690 82958
2008-09-06 63 525 17 711 81507
2008-09-07 82 570 16 742 76946
2008-09-08 66 670 16 691 79151
2008-09-09 64 567 20 663 70164
2008-09-10 84 610 17 698 71442
2008-09-11 74 643 22 685 80969
2008-09-12 60 508 14 661 69106
2008-09-13 71 543 17 642 65381
2008-09-14 64 545 9 575 67832
2008-09-15 71 543 19 633 65211
2008-09-16 6 33 0 234 11085
August 2008 1698 13800 347 740 1838001