Coop,
Out of curiousity, I pull statistics from last year at this time - things are up and down and statistics over the last couple of weeks aren't noticeably less - I can output "user activity" per day in a statistics report. They are actually up over last year by a noticeable amount - I get 4-5 new registrations per day - from all over the world.
I think some threads caused a bit of controversy over the last month or two that actually increased traffic - thank god these have settled down and things are getting back to "normal".
Things do go up down according the season and also go down a bit on weekends and go up during the week when folks are at work and surf the web during their coffee break...
jeff