I’m just going by the review section really. A couple of years ago and that was a very popular and busy section. I was looking through a few before and barely anyone posts anymore on there.
Yeah, I think this is actually a great example on why this is such a popular refrain, year after year: people use the site differently over time. People starting their own review threads was one of the primary ways people used the site a few years ago, for sure, but now they tend to post reviews wherever and don't house them in dedicated threads as often. Probably because the
Reviews section has grown a lot (almost 13,000 now), so it matters less and less where reviews go on the forums since we pluck them out and highlight them from wherever.
We used to have more games, too, and I'm sure at some point someone came by and saw that the kinds of games that used to be so busy weren't any more, and came to the same conclusion, even though people were just playing different games.
I don't take offense to it or anything, but it's just a constant in the life of any forum, that people use it differently and the only version that feels good/right/active/whatever to someone is the way it was used when they first got into it.