The site is not dead. The forum is, because it’s pretty useless.
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We have social media and chatrooms for that. Like NTTP said, Matrix and XMPP/Jabber, which I both have.
Bolting a forum onto an unrelated site is scope creep; the least common denominator is simply too broad, which you can see from how almost all topics here are either spam, or are topics that have a better place elsewhere.