>>28958It's just the natural course of things. As a rule of thumb, the main gateway to a spinoff is always going to be the site it spun-off from. Once the connection is severed, be it because the cultures diverged too much for a smooth transition from one to the other, or because the parent site board ceased to exist, you're basically running off inertia in terms of public knowledge, and once that inertia runs out, you're going to find yourself with far fewer posts from casual users and far fewer new users discovering the site. I've been along long enough to see this happen to multiple imageboards I use regularly; it's not unique to Leftypol.
Leftypol isn't a wasteland; it still has a large and active enough userbase that things can be measured in terms of posts-per-hour rather than posts-per-day. What's important now is that we focus on keeping it going as its own thing, as opposed to acting as part of the "imageboard community".