Really? In just three years, daily unique visitors have gone from 1million to 4.5k a month.

What is the average life span of an active user?

Where did you see the statistics?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fvideosift.com

Voting for this poll ended with the majority of users voting No.

"A total of 12 votes have been cast on this poll"

I think that sums it up.

or maybe people just don't care about the poll?

Why DID you come back?
You've done nothing but troll and moan since you came back.

I had vague memories of you being funny and/or interesting before you left, but looking back through your comment history, I see I was mistaken.

I don't really care about rank or status here, but I do enjoy the community. Ironically, you returning has actually made the sift a worse place.

Well done.

It's not just this poll. I wish it was.

It only takes 18 votes now to get you into the awesome "Top 15" at VideoSift.

http://videosift.com/video/Mission-Impossible-Rogue-Nation-trailer

That is a very popular video with over 5 million views on youtube. But it's been sitting here for over 2 days and only has only 18 votes.

Top 15. With 74 unique views.

Well maybe the Sift is too erudite to buy into bland popularity.

The number one video right now has only 49 votes:

http://videosift.com/video/Last-Week-Tonight-with-John-Oliver-Municipal-Violations


How about this?
http://videosift.com/video/Evil-Villain-Laugh

37 votes total. 3 weeks ago. The number One Sift on the Sift.

Can we agree there is a problem here?

Not outdated as such. Sure, it doesn't have as readily available content as reddit or imgur, so the "quick fixers" won't come here as much as they would before.

The community seems to have shrunk as well - I suppose we're growing up and busy, so there's less of a vibrant discussion going on. Democrats are in office, atheism is better, cats are cute. There's less to talk about now, unless you get into depressing stuff like Syria. There's no friendly competition anymore and the gamefication seems to have gone away.

To me it feels like videosift is like highschool - I've graduated, so there's very little reason to come back to the little pond, since most of my friends have moved on as well.

Videosift also seems to be developing in a direction that doesn't cater to me anymore - the new design doesn't appeal to me at all. If the whole thing changes to the new layout for single pages, I'm probably out for good.

The Sift is like a real nice old neighborhood bar. The kind of bar you hope never closes. It's quiet, friendly, and classy in a slightly retro way. Maybe you moved out of town a couple of years ago, and you just happen to be driving through and exclaim "Ooh shit, that place is still open!? I gotta go in!"