For me, I don't really think its getting worse and worse like you rightly pointed out, instead it has actually done me good than harm, because it's has overtime helped me in terms of knowledge expansion and equally making me get involve in a serious discussion like this.

So by an large,I think it's not really getting "worse" like you think

No offense, but how you can say such things when you been on forum just for one week as your account was registered just on 21st  of May. Most likely you don't know how forum looked and how things were going here 1, 2 or 5 years ago, you only see current situation which is quite different than we had in past. Well, unless it's not your first account here.

Hmm that's true, Boss!
This forum has not been the same as before, i.e., after me. We can clearly see that the unique status of the forum is no longer there and is gradually declining. Big-ranking members used to play a consistent role in the discussion of the topic, that is, they were active, but now the big-ranking members are not active in the same way on the forum due to staff carelessness, even though we lost some members and the rest Yes, they remain inactive due to some restrictions policy of the forum due to which they are not part of the members discussions and have not been able to attract others.
 
If i tell you the truth, there were demands from those who were the merit source that we should increase the merit allocation, but in fact, we did not get any response from Tymos, although these members are the most contributors to the forum and these are the members who are the members of the forum. They have created hope to remain active but now such a time has passed that these people (members) are not even given a replay. So if this lack of care continues, many more users may be away from this forum either in the form of being unactive or in the form of leaving the forum.

Hello my good friends.

Allow me to share my point of view on this topic.

You may (or may not) have noticed that I am writing a lot less than I used to.

This forum felt like a home to me, when I was struggling with understanding Bitcoin and how it works. Of course, I only consider myself to be a little more educated than I was when I joined the forum, but there is still lot to learn.

I have been a member in signature campaingns, I have developed some tools - just for extra knowledge - and I have always been interested in Bitcoin and almost nothing else.

I think that unfortunately this forum is occupied by:

1. people submiting poor answers just to earn some sats from signature campaigns.
2. people who try to scam, or promote fishing websites.
3. people who insult, swear and post death threats.
4. people who should moderate but they don't moderate at all!
5. people who are only interested in posting "will bitcoin reach 1 billion dollars per coin?" or even worse "will this shitcoin reach 1 quantillion dollars per token?".

Of course, there are some exceptions. There are some people who I have really been proud of exchanging ideas with. I will not name anyone, but of course, you all know who the valuable members are in this jungle.

I am not leaving the forum, I love it. But, I think it's simply because I am accustomed to loving it...

Don't forget: keep fighting the good fight! I will be here, for anyone who is genuinely interested in Bitcoin.

That’s why this forum is filled with made up stories and speculations because of these newbies who jump to conclusion even without having seeing or experienced the real events just to ride with the discussion. Although not all but I observed a lot of them have resort doing like this.

However, this forum only gets worse if majority of the newbies do not come here to acquire learning and establish concrete knowledge, but focus more on how to be profitable even at an early time without even being aware on the do’s  and dont’s in the forum.

Things change but people in blockchain industry will not forget Bitcoin forum. This forum might continue to lively operate or stop its operation but whatever happens to this forum in future, it will be considered as a museum of Blockchain industry and Bitcoin enthusiasts. Either a live museum or historic museum, it will be marked in Bitcoin history.

I love this forum and don't think it will stop any time in future. Bitcoin is here with us and Bitcoin talk for is here with us too.

Maybe I'd say I came after the mixer ban or I haven't been this knowledgeable in the forum before the mixer was banned. I don't have an ideal of the significant changes in the forum all these while otherwise I've always commend the state of discussions with the intellectual users in the forum.

Don't get me wrong please, you could be right but having the view on my own perspective as a forum member who haven't been here for long experiences now, I've reputable honours to those who have effectively been contributing to the welfare of the forum in providing solutions and expanding the obligations of bitcoin discussion at large.
Hopefully there must had been exited of much intellectual forum members as a course of the mixer ban and while I've also been in the forum for a quite time now, I understand that there had been shilling posts and similar topic of discussions revolving around he forum which makes it feel like there's no creativity as the discussions goes on.

This is also my stance on this and I have been saying same. The early users of this forum didn't actually dish out quality posts as they have been described. Rather they gave natural and uninfluenced posts.
Nowadays people allow the signature they promote influence what they post;
Some signature participants are encouraged to post in the Ann threads of the project they are promoting. They'll definitely not go their to be negative but positive and loyal to their employers.
The early posters could make a post how they performed CPFP in bitcoin and that will be considered as high quality post. But make same today, it will not be regarded as a high quality post.
It is normal that the initial excitement of a new technology drop at some points, there's nothing strange about it.

Pretty much the same, as it was.

Then ignore them. There are many interesting things to explore. I don't know, play chess, read some old topics, try to create your own topic, whatever. Don't expect a new great posts, coming at regular intervals. Sometimes, there is no interesting post for a month, and then suddenly something, which could be worth 50 merits. It is unpredictable, and it is normal. It always was.

Also note, that some things are still "in progress". It is Open Source: things are published, when they are ready. So, don't expect a topic about DLEQ proofs between secp224k1 and secp256k1, because of the same x-value in half of the generator, because it is not yet ready. Many interesting things are baked under the hood: testnet4, weak blocks, scanners for Silent Payments, OP_CAT, and so on. They arrive, when they arrive. The only way to push them faster, is to join some group, working on some proposal, and support it with your code, your test cases, your translations, your new bitcointalk topic about it, etc.

And it will be in the future as well. You know why? Because it is that kind of spam attack, which was still not yet fixed. There is no clear winner yet. So, people will talk about it, until someone will kill Ordinals, or until Bitcoin will officially become some kind of P2P cloud storage (but then, it will be worth as much as testnets are, because the only purpose of testnet is to push transaction data publicly).

So, I expect people will discuss about Ordinals forever, unless the network rules will be fixed, or unless people will be encouraged to try something else. Or: maybe some spammers will eventually run out of coins, and then regular payments will take their place.

That's why some people just stick to some boards, where there is no speculation (or the topic is moved somewhere else, if it is mentioned). I heard about things like Wall Observer, but I never read it. And you also have the same choice: just ignore topics you don't like, and produce more topics you want to read about, and everything will be fine.

1. Some of them are still there, hidden behind different accounts.
2. There are also some new valuable members, who woke up recently, after falling asleep in 2020.

Human emotions, as usual. Things are not getting better or worse, the only shifting thing is your way of looking at them.

It was always the case. If you are a software engineer, then you will handle Bitcoin easier, than if you are not. I can clearly see that in case of test networks, where by CPU mining I can get around 10% of all mined blocks, which is insane, if you note, that all of my blocks have the minimal difficulty, and there are many ASICs around. And it is even more surprising, when I can achieve similar results on both testnet3 and testnet4.

One of many possible outcomes, is to move those transactions into test networks. I can happily confirm a lot of Ordinals on testnet3 or testnet4, if it will decrease the load on the mainnet, and will allow regular payments to be processed faster.

This problem can be also fixed, but I am trying to postpone that kind of code, for as long, as I can. Fixing UTXO flood should happen after batching regular payments, not before them. Ordinals should fall into the trap of their current design, get themselves locked in their present flaws, and then, crushing that market will be easier, because then they will face the same problems as Bitcoin Core developers: you cannot change things, if they are grandfathered in.

The same is true for mainnet, but many people didn't realize it yet. And it is good to keep Ordinals' users in their blissful ignorance, for as long as possible, to then wake them up with a cold shower. If you want to know more, then read about "assume UTXO", and note, that Ordinals are completely unprepared for those kinds of things.

1. It will be hard to kill testnet3. In the best case, it will be slowly dying altcoin. But I guess, that network will be maintained for a while, even if it will no longer be supported by Bitcoin Core, and even if existing seed nodes will be disabled. Some users will just not upgrade, and their local list of peers will be sufficient to keep it running, even without hard-coded seeders. And as usual, they will use addnode to connect to nodes, maintained by centralized exchanges. There were altcoins, which stopped working, and trading was not affected. This situation may also repeat there.
2. Getting the same outcome on testnet4 will take a lot of time. If you want to test things after many halvings, then testnet3 is your only choice, there is no alternative, because testnet4 started from 50 tBTC. Also, because testnet4 will have no blockstorms, then doing some tricks will be easier than on testnet3. Another thing is the new rule of 600 seconds, which will help CPU miners to mine more blocks than before, because it will push the time forward, and lower the network difficulty. I can also see that now, because I can mine more testnet4 blocks than testnet3 blocks, with the same CPU power.

Not that long, as you may think. They annoyed a lot of people. They abused the network to the point, where some big mining pools started censoring them. And they created way more UTXOs, than they should, so they forced some developers to deploy their code way faster, than they planned. They basically forced people to start spinning up new "utreexo nodes" to avoid being sued. And if they will abuse the chain further than today, then you will see block explorers, showing proofs, instead of sharing full transaction data, when their operators will start receiving letters from courts.