Why Lithuania ? (or, who's googlin' fo' steamgifts)

I use Firefox for just about everything I do on the internet and then I have Chrome installed just to use with SG. So yes, my homepage for Chrome is SG since that is the only reason I open this browser.

Sg-book? That sounds interesting :)

I've got a slight suspicion that we are talking about entirely different things. I meant sites that are new to me and my browser; as for steamgifts and such, there are bookmarks or autocomplete for that, sure.

site (and community) is alive and kicking, if you ask me (don't do that).

that's why i've posted this.
honest question: what makes you think site is dying? those graphs?

I guess this type of community needs a steady influx of new users to maintain its size - and if this influx is reduced then the community will eventually die.

Why's this community so different from others?

The rise was when Kickstarter, Greenlight and Early Access were kicking, Steam catalogue was flooded with low quality games, which were given away and sold on many indie bundle shops. In a year or two people started to realize they are getting shit, and began to ask Valve to stop all this, and then Valve changed it's policies towards indie games. Now the very concept of indie game is discredited, it's percepted more like trashware, people don't buy bundles anymore, bundle shops are dying. Do you want another shovelware 2-dollar game made merely to get a share from wallpapers/emoticons transactions? Me neither.

I don't think the community here will completely die because there are a decent number of users here that like to give games just to give and there are users that just enjoy talking, but yes, the number of giveaways and the chance to win for the average user is going to continue to plummet. Users involved in groups, whitelist, or invite only giveaways will most likely continue to win a decent amount, although they are usually giving more than the average user as well. These "walled off" parts of the community will probably also hurt the site popularity because they are not public and most users will not be able to enter which does not help encourage new users to get involved.

I don't claim to know a way to fix the issue, but I think it is due to the design of the CV system. I explained in further detail in another thread here.

I don't see why that would have much of an effect. I guess new users joining could see the flood of free games and think there is no point in using the site because it's just people giving away free games, but I don't think that is why. It is weird that the number of giveaways created started to drop right around that the time when free games were allowed to be given away in Jan 2018, but if you look at the number of new users joining the site, it has been steadily declining since 2015.

I don't claim to know a way to fix the issue, but I personally think the site is declining in popularity due to the design of the CV system. I explained in further detail in another thread here.