The reason this site is dying.

[Evil Yoshi Toes]

The forums are definitely dying and honestly there is not much we can do about it.

I'm not a fan of this attitude. Maybe the MFGG forums don't have long for this world? I don't know. People said this same thing over a decade ago. Whatever you believe, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I agree it's harder when you're not growing, but there are many things we can all do to stimulate activity: Post useful content regularly, organize events, and tell friends about MFGG.

I guess my point with this was more that I don't think it makes sense to dedicate a ton of time to the forums when the vast majority of members people the discord format anyway. If we had more staff and the staff had more time we could definitely come up with a lot of fun events for the forums, but were all so busy right now and staff is so limited that I can't realistically see us making such extreme changes on the forums at this time. Its easy to say we will organize lots of fun events, but fun events can take a while to time to come up with, and with our busy schedules they take a very long time to come up with. And keeping a dying forum alive would require us to come up with these events very consistently. Then there's also the issue of whether these events should just take place on the discord. Of course that wouldn't help to bring people to the forums, but if people prefer the discord anyway why would we not try to better our most popular platform. The Discord's main criticism is already that it isn't fan game oriented enough and these events would help with that. But maybe I'm wrong and we will be able to pull it off now, or maybe some of our schedules will free up soon, or maybe some community efforts will help to bring people back to the forums. I would prefer to see the forums kept alive, it's just something that will take a lot of work, more work that I can see the staff putting in in our current state. But that can always change. I'd just hate to dedicate a large quantity of already limited time to a platform most members don't care as much about when the preferred platform is still pretty flawed.
(Sorry if this is hard to follow I had to type this quickly on my phone)