Why is the forums so quiet these days?

[kazi]

Sadly that is where most things are going now and as a result a lot of information over the years will be lost as people stop the upkeep and payment of URLs etc. I would say that's facebook is the big contender for killing of forums but also Photobucket was one of the last nails in the coffin as, again, lost of build threads and information was lost. As for pace, this is actually one of the more active forums that I'm on. The other 86 forum (AE86irl) is almost dead.