Our prior investors have all been paid, and Fluther is privately held, with no outside investors at the moment. I can’t speak to the profitability, but I can talk about our decrease in page views/visits.
We used to be one of the top hits for a lot of search terms… pretty much anything that had been asked here, we’d be on the first page, if not in the top two Google results. A while back, Google changed its algorithm, and it seems that we have been mis-categorized as a content farm. *
We now appear way down on the list on search results. As a result, far fewer people are finding their way to Fluther via Google. It’s something we’re working on, but there is no easy answer.
* Obviously, we are not a content farm, since all of you good people generate our text with no direction on our part. So frustrating!