Perhaps it's the time of year where people are storing their bikes and not thinking about them much until next year.
So, they make some small talk in the Campfire Talk section.
I have noticed a huge drop-off in technical posting over the last week or so.
And the number of people logged-in is generally much lower than it was a few weeks ago too.
Sometimes I'll go away for hours, and come back to check the site, and not a single technical post has been made, and in some cases no posts of any kind were made.
The site traffic is way down..