You do realize this site has just become social media yeah?

Since like mid 2016

Well it is funny on a forum of almost half a million users, only like a dozen regularly post a status update.

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but think of it this way,
at least half the users made an account for the giveaways and then left forever.

And how most of them are making new accounts because of bottlenecks.

I guess I understand how some of those people who practically own the niche subforums feel.

I mean, for example, the Star Citizen subforum is basically dead.
it lives on in the discord channel we have. and most of these people barely come to the forum afaik