Well, you can't really bring new people in and make them stick if the site is already dead-ish
Then maybe I'm not an average person then, because I'd very much rather to have the sure thing one donut each post during the caravan than "maybe I'll get some if I post three posts more this month" outside of it... It's logical for me, slowly but surely instead of pure luck.
Maybe the caravan time will just stay shortened, since people don't post more anyways after day 2? I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't come back later this month tbh. If it's not working for longer, then maybe at least for shorter it will.
So far I didn't see a bigger activity besides the avatar talk forum. I think maybe that forum section should be considered spam after all... but then the people would get mad I guess...

But others are raging about how avatar talk is spam just like word games forum... Yeah, there's no pleasing everyone.
I'm guessing there's ust no patience or time. Or both.