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Originally Posted by ekbell
There's less interest in parenting & fandom blogs and forums as well (a number that I used to pursue have become defunct). In those cases I know that the discussions have moved to the current social networks (mostly facebook and tumblr).
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I suspect you are right. A number of web boards that I belong to have become less active over the past several years.
The other thing that I've noticed is that online forums tend to be driven by a few prolific posters and a lot of lurkers (i.e. people who mostly read but rarely post). When a few prolific posters stop posting for various reasons, then posts go down. Forums also need new blood every so often to keep conversations from going stale.