Probably less than 50k giveaway in Apr 2018

I would think the changes are due to Steam's gift changes. That's a big enough change to account for the whole drop, don't you think?

There is indeed decline in giveaways number, i have only 3 pages of active giveaways on main page (including group giveaways) and don't have where to spent points even if i would enter all active giveaways. Valve did a lot recently to discourage people from gifting games, but unfortunately i don't have any suggestions on how to improve current situation

Its still a big amount. I'm not worried

I'll always take quality over quantity. I'd rather there be a few great games given away than a hundred terrible ones.

But March had nearly 100k and was the 6th highest month ever. A one-month dip is hardly enough to say the site is on the decline.

I think the problem is supply & demand. Every PC gamer 10+ years ago wanted more games on Steam(or at least more ways to get PC games). Well now there are well over 20,000 games on Steam, a handful of other platforms to buy games, even legit key sellers supported by game developers, games have never been this cheap or as easy to get, which probably equates to less and less people feeling the need to give away games on steamgifts.

It's up to the individual giveaway creators how many giveaways he or her wants to make and also how they are setup. And of course there are the radical changes made by Valve concerning the Steam gifts to inventory feature and changes on SG. And there are fluctuations in the amount of users active on SG, some leave SG, some make their first SG giveaways while some just take a break from SG. ^^

So... you're saying that there are less bad dev-wannabes who are selling some stitched together monstrosity on Steam with the intend of profiting from card sales and who are giving away thousands of keys for said monstrosity all over the Internet which people stockpile and then "gift" on SG?
I mean, I don't know if that's the case and highly doubt it but overall that's a good thing. :P

Personally I'm making less GAs because I'm in a phase where I'm a bit detached from gaming and I'm barely buying anything apart from my usual Humble Monthly.

Generally speaking, as others have pointed out the Steam gifting policy changes made much more difficult giving away more expensive, unbundled games.
Also it appears that many people in Russia are having trouble accessing the site, and that's a big part of SG's userbase (2nd largest nationality iirc). This may at least in part explain the current numerical decline.

Do you think things would change with 'extra features'? Maybe you could say what you think could help the community and we could talk about that, instead of trying to make us say what you want to say.

80% of the winners don't play the games...
Blame them. I don't want to spend money for GAs if they just land in some backlog and get never played.

Also a lot of our users already own a lot of games so they don't buy a lot of new bundles to give the rest away.

I would suggest adding feature where people who do a giveaway could advertise themselfs, for exemple small youtubers, streamers,bloggers or someone like that.

Firstly, I'd say that assuming gifting continues at the same rate, we'll have more than 50,000 GAs this month (possibly over 55,000).

Secondly, I don't think that SG should be evaluated purely on the number of games given. A larger number of garbage gifts doesn't make this site a better place, IMO. It looks like in months with fewer giveaways a larger percentage of them is of full value games, so it looks like the drop is in the number of bundled games. That could be due to less appealing bundles or fewer bundles.

And March was almost 100k, a ridiculously high amount for a non-sale period.
This month was not strong for bundles (no one-dollar pack from Fanatical) and/or it is just the same up/down trend you can see in the past two years.
When the three-month rolling average shows a decline for three consecutive months, you can start crying with a good and solid reason.

I propose a law to double them! make it so!

Blame IGN! (That consolebundle brah)

Yes there's a clear decline

i for one hope for decline, im burned out on The GA aspect.
if a lot of you stop visiting as much, perhaps a smaller active group, could reignite that feeling of belonging to a unique community, like back in the old days.
past 2 years were rather vanilla

I believe SG rule changes have also created a decline in giveaways. When the points to enter would generate by the amount of giveaways people would by bundles to keep the points ran up. Once that was taken away people started winning less because they ran out of points.They quit giving as much because they felt no need. I have always given because I like to give but some users are "in it to win it" so to speak.

Is it the part where I blame it all on IGN and HB going to sh!t?
Seriously though. April has been a bit of a "dry" month. Bundles have dried up (unless you count all the crap bundles from the usual places), no big sales from anyone. People have ran out of keys to give away. Still, there are 50K GAs, decline or not, I find comfort in the thought people are still keeping SG going through the dry month ;)