Maybe it's because I was more naive back in the day, but I definitely enjoyed reading this forum more when I first started (16 years old).
Also, the demographic for redpill, manosphere, and pickup stuff was more narrow. Now that this forum has grown a bit and is showing up in all sorts of search engines, more and more different personalities of all different walks of life are signing up. And with that, the quality of posts seems to have taken its natural course of withering over time.
Most of the stuff I read here makes me shake my head, but I don't mind it. That's what freedom of speech is all about. I welcome all the nonsense and both ingenuine and genuine requests for advice because that's kind of how real life is. When I was still managing my family's restaurant, I was regularly meeting and greeting an average of 200 to 300 people about 5 days a week on average. Years of doing that has made me a bit more patient and made me realize that the vast majority of things you experience, read, ingest, and most people you meet and talk to aren't going to add value to your life and will actually hinder you and waste your time.
That's how it is everywhere now. This forum is no exception. Fortunately, I still run into entertaining posts every now and then, and personally enjoy reading back and forth banter.