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.
I was a regular Voat user for just about two years and really enjoy the site. the fact the canary died (that bugs me) and Putt posted he would "get around to addressing the site" (paraphrased by me) when he had time from his busy life, well, I think in that amount of time he could have told Voat members what has/is going on. Still no word from Putt or Atko as of today, that I've seen. I noticed lots of very childish and clickbait posts; lots of new names with scads of ccp and scp (or wtf it is); brigading like feckin' crazy. I've lost faith in the site as of now, yet I hope to be able to return to it when it gets sorted out.