I look at the entire 24 hour period not just a snap shot of a few hours especially overnight hours. Over night is always slow for the obvious reasons plus post sit in the quere until I approve them. Mods do sleep too. Low post count 8 post a day, average 100 to 110, high 120 to 130. Last 24 hours last time I checked 99.

Why are you just interested in flooding the board with inane posts? Let the posts have some meaning. Quality, not quantity is what matters.

Before, it used to zip across the first page within a matter of hours because it would get flooded by provider advertisements. Now current topics stick around a while longer and have much more participation.  
Typical reads never topped over a 1000 unless it reached toward the bottom half of the page but now it's easily reaching such readership even before it reaches the bottom half.

As for having to go to provider ad boards, Some people complain that it takes extra mouse movement, but WTF... it's all consolidated.  I'm PRETTY damn sure that us horny men will move the mouse over to that board on a very very regular basis.  

Same effect applies to provider ads, their advertisements stick around much longer on the first page since us horny men aren't flooding the ad board with our inquiries/411/complaints/rants posts.

I really think it's a great improvement.