People have drastically decreased their usage on here. The rewards are paid out 50-50 now, so writers are receiving less of their reward percentage. That's probably part of why so many people left.

The other part is that the community "self-regulation" has started to lean toward censorship in some cases, so we lost people from that as well.

Finally, whales have more influence with the current setup (again), so that's a thing..

But we're still on Steem, and the guarantee we have with Steem is that it will probably change again in 3 months 👍🙂