Nowadays it's pretty much social media that has destroyed forums. I mean, let's face it, these forums are a major update from the BBS days but Forums are too a thing of the past. It's 2 hours before the Big Reveal and only about 13 people are on, I suspect more during obviously but in any case there are more mainstream sites and social media avenues covering it. Add to the fact this new site design is deplorable on mobile devices, now the mobile computing of today, and you can see why. Plus this new upgrade is only a face lift, a lot of the older content, like game and movie information, when it even works, remains the same. Throw in the fact we have to actively participate to activate more site themes and honestly more and more people will just use the Twitch and other social media platforms. I'm pretty sure if you're watching an MKO twitch it doesn't show the number of people online but if it does then not a lot is happening. Not to mention a new generation of people, many whom came after the popularity of forums, are embracing the social media culture more. Plus more people are embracing media, so text-based content is pretty obsolete (like my site, unfortunately) and thus you see a lot less fanatics who obsessed over MK by building the same repetitive sites using the same animated GIFs, etc like we seen during the '90s and first decade. Plus we basically know all the game's secrets and finishing moves the day of release and it leaves many of us without the thrill of discovering them ourselves or waiting for the next couple of issues of GamePro or EGM to reveal them. Not to mention these magazines don't really exist anymore now that the Web offers them in a variety of platforms.
For site admins, it's really a pain to run a site anymore. You gotta have a FB, a Twitter, an IG, and some even have SnapChat or Patreon or Pinterest and MKO also has Twitch and I believe a few others.
On a computer I love the site design. On my phone, no because I only see the main news item and cannot browse any older news.
