AZ:
How are you measuring traffic here? Do you have some sort of calibration you can share?
Purely anecdotal. I used to only skim all the latest discussions on the old site rather than viewing individual sub forums for posts.
It was fairly easy to see anything I missed over a couple days.
Now, using the same feature, I have to go back quite a bit further to see the latest posts in roughly the same amount of time.
Seemingly, there appears to be more activity to me. But I'm not using any scientific method to measure.
Perhaps a mod can speak of web traffic stats.