Dear Viki please think before discontinuing the watch party feature. 
The demand for watch parties may have decreased as you say, especially when compared to the time during the pandemic. But that’s only natural. During the pandemic everyone had to spend more time than usual at home and watching dramas was a good method to ■■■■ the time.
So now people have the possibility to go out and meet in person again. Naturally the number of people using websites like Viki will decrease.
But while thinking about how to change Viki to still stay competitive against companies like Dis+, Nfx and others you shouldn’t forget the unique selling points of Viki itself.
These unique selling points are on the one hand the Subs created by volunteers and on the other hand features like Watch Party.
The Subs created by fans for fans are very unique and are far more satisfying for viewers of Asian dramas than elsewhere because they keep the cultural peculiarities of the Asian languages while translating and also take the effort to explain the language or certain Asian habits in the Translation Notes.
As someone coming from the fan made Anime subtitles with an interest for Asian culture this is a reason for me to chose Viki over any other streaming website.
Same goes for the Watch Party Feature. It’s also a unique selling point for me.
Since I started to watch dramas on Viki, I have had at least two watch parties a week, at times even three or four a week.
The watch party feature is an excellent way to stay connected with the contributor community Viki itself created by implanting the from fans for fans Subtitles.
It’s an excellent way to stay connected with your international Viki-friends but also an excellent way to stay connected with the Viki-friends in everyone’s own language community.
Vikis competitors don’t have a feature like that.
Furthermore the watch party feature is a great feature for the subtitling teams of the different languages to get together and enjoy the drama everyone is working on together.
I have worked with many different moderators in my language community, who offered to watch the episodes together in a watch party. This not only ensured that every member of the team watched the episodes before translating but also made the whole process of translating even more fun.
So when I started to work as moderator myself, I also offered these team watch parties and as far as I can tell everyone participating liked that.
I am sure you had good reasons for your decision.
But please try to take these thoughts of a Viki user into account, if you not already did.
For my friends and me, losing the watch party feature are very sad news 