I dunno, Keegan, it's seemed a usual amount of busy to me. Like CycloMary said, it goes in waves and people come and go.

I've been observing for years, and would add that it almost groups in waves too(!) A bunch of people will be interacting and that will get somewhat diluted with new faces at the same time as those who were previously more active fall back a bit. So it may be just as busy, but not feel that way because one's familiar people are fewer.

So, like group A talking> transistion A/B (where some A's will feel it's slower because fewer familiars) >B > transistion B/C (where some B's will feel it's slower) > C etc. it's not quite that tidy -- people don't come and go in half groups, lol, and some remain over numerous changes, but damn if it's not something I've noticed over time. If given a list of everyone's name over the years, I think I could even cluster them(!) At least in the case of the more frequent posters -- those who have a pretty distinct period of activity (on, busy, busy, off -- which is definitely a common pattern).

Pretty convoluted way to say it's fairly consistent overall, with super-late (US time), holidays and summers (northern hemisphere) seeing less traffic. That's what I've noticed anyway.

(Wow, am I ever procrastinating(!) Paperwork. Ugh.)