I'd say the forums actually died when they were closed for months with no news of being reopened. We lost pretty much the entire userbase and no real incentive to come back when everyone migrated to other social platforms or just lost interest. I don't think the handful of users that got moderated or banned carried the forums on their back.
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Initially, I still remember logging on everyday hoping that it would be the day the forums would reopen but after about a month past I came less and less until by the time I realized it was back it didn’t matter to me as much.