I agree with DdmrDdmr that the forum traffic is decreasing. I've noticed less posts were being made in the General Discussion board during the past two days. Gravitates me towards Meta in those occasions.
The traffic was slightly higher during the yob*t/forum campaign, and the chart vividly shows us that, after the end of that campaign, traffic sank sharply. There is no doubt that with the introduction of a merit system&long crypto winter many members left the forum, and those new members largely failed to advance in ranks, which further demotivated them to stay on forum. Money is the biggest motivator for most people, so I think we are safe from any increase in traffic, regardless of the current situation in the world.
So if the forums traffic is nowhere near it's all time high, it should well be able to handle any increase of traffic from people who have to stay home from work. I bet they didn't reduce their server count after those events you mentioned above so that will make for a lot of unused network connectivity.
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Notice how in your graph that January 2020, when bitcoin almost hit $10000, had a much higher alexa ranking than today. I wonder what kind of topics in which boards were all the surplus users were viewing at the time.
I think you'll find more problems on some forum related to netflix, where people will be comlaining they've bingewatched everything possible, and have nothing to watch.
You mean binge-watched everything they
want to see. Human desire to watch more interesting and entertaining stuff can't be satiated. On the other hand I haven't seen anybody binge-watch bitcointalk threads (yet), and if there were any, they would have used the "All" button, which is DDoS-protected by Cloudflare, to see all the replies anyway. Still, the rest of the site may have a DDoS weakness, but I haven't heard of anyone attempting one, yet.
Not sure how much longer Netflix will be around... they are in debt due to unique productions and other providers are offering more for less.
Blows my mind how business like Netflix stay afloat. They pump so much money into getting the rights to programs and creating their own original content that they're losing massive amounts of money. I think they're just hoping that eventually pretty much every household in the developing world will have a Netflix account and they'll be rolling in the cash but that probably won't happen, especially with all the competition that's around and also up and coming. Netflix is good value for money but most people I know just share their mates or family member's account.
I know I'm wandering off-topic at this point, but trying to get everyone in developing countries to watch netflix shows is a far cry if most ISPs don't offer connections that can't even stream 720p stably. And that's unlimited data caps, not some metered 4G/LTE that the vast majority of africans, and I guess asians too, are using, TV shows will run out of internet too quickly although that's probably a non-issue since the majority of them are watching some 360p Youtube videos. Regarding their money-losing situation, they can't even hold out the programs they licensed from other media companies since they are launching their own streaming platforms and will take away the rights from Netflix to stream them, thus losing them more money.
@hilarious, I found a list of Amazon Prime 4K shows/movies at
https://hd-report.com/list-of-4k-ultra-hd-movies-tv-shows-titles-on-amazon-video/.
