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Forums may not fully die but they become a lot more difficult to build a critical mass around, that's for damn sure. And that's the problem... the stickyness factor is being lost. The regular contributions slow down considerably when the members think the people reading their contributions is declining. When a forum that used to be strong sees its members, most of whom used to chat via PMs on the site and in the sub-forums daily, doing most of their chatting with the same people over on FB, the site ends up losing part of its soul - and eventually ends up becoming more of a searchable archive than a bustling community.


It's a little like Route 66 - some will still go to enjoy and immerse themselves in it, but more and more are using the newer highway system.


I wouldn't say it's inevitable, but it's not something you can just dismiss anymore.


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