I've been advertising saidit on reddit for 3 years, far more than anyone else, and I always encourage others to do so. I don't know why ruqqus users are so strong to proselytize, I think there may be advertising campaigns that are paid.

Someone on reddit recently called saidit the "heir apparent" to reddit. The consensus is not just around ruqqus as you imply, it's pretty evenly split between saidit and ruqqus, and we will have to see if ruqqus can sustain growth the way saidit has. We're lucky to have a codebase we know can scale to millions of users, because it has done so, and ruqqus does not have that battle-tested software that can scale.

We will have to see if ruqqus has staying power like saidit does.

But I welcome multiple sites, more options is better. I just don't think saidit is falling behind like you say. But I get what you mean.