Intrepid goat VoatSearch (a/k/a SearchVoat) posts voat comment and content stats regularly.
I was curious if there was any significant content drop-off in the days since voat came back online and I can tell you voat is steadily declining at a consistent rate.
I wanted a good baseline so I looked at the stats of the five weeks' worth of posts before the blackout. Each week enjoyed an average of 1,700 posts a day (some up to and above 2,000 posts).
Week ending on...
All was not well.
On April 27 PuttItOut commented like a right prick to /u/chmod here and here and subsequently lost the faith of many users who were already nervous about the state of voat. Many users said their goodbyes on voat and stopped posting.
Here we see undeniable evidence of the decline with the week ending April 29
/u/Owlchemy I saw a comment of yours here on Phuks where you wondered how many users have left. Judging by the content I'd say many. And I doubt they'll be returning.
This is true. I actually started drifting towards Phuks earlier, mostly because it was getting progressively more toxic there. It was the Voat 'days of darkness' that was the final straw for me, followed by zero explanation. I still have my account and swoop by on occasion to see how that whole thing is shaking out ... but this goat is now a fox - LOL