Probably a seasonal thing. A while back, I did a search on ADISC for keywords like "suicide" and "depression," and graphed the hits by month. Although some years showed peaks in the summer months and at other times of the year, the fall and early winter months were the heaviest with mental health topics most of the time. In short, it's Mental Health Topic Season on ADISC right now.
And let's face it: ADISC is a support site. Although perhaps not the best place for people with bona fide mental health issues to turn, it's sort of inevitable that people within the community who are struggling with mental health come to places like these for help. Or to just vent. It's not my favorite kind of topic to come across, and I'll admit that I do a fair bit of ignoring of these kinds of topics, especially when the people posting them seem to be sharing the exact same issues over and over (and over and over and over), and not heeding any of the advice given.
But next to Mental Health Topic Seasons of yore, I'd call the present atmosphere on ADISC quiet as opposed to low-quality. And I think quietness is ok. It signals to me that maybe we're doing a good job of not (excessively) feeding the cyclically mentally distressed users who really ought to, at some point, try doing something else. I know that probably sounds a bit mean, but... :shrug: We're uniquely qualified to discuss the struggles of ABDL-dom, but being made to sit here and swallow rants from people who clearly have bigger problems is less than we deserve. Right?
So...
*Fastens diaper, closes eyes, listens to the sweet chirping of crickets in the moon-lit fields of ADISC*