Every forum I have ever joined has been "in decline" according to the members who have been a part of it longest. Even in leaving those forums and returning years later, an entirely new group of people is "missing the days when" and lamenting the passing of the forum's "prime".
All of these types of complaints lead me to think that the forum itself is never the problem, more that those who are using it are changing as people, moving in and out of the forum and of phases in their lives.
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