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Because all social platforms and message boards are like living entities:

They have their infancy and grow into something popular (relatively speaking) then your older members either get bored or jaded, often both. The culture of the platform starts to change while more people leave disliking the change than new people discover the platform. Resulting in the platform steadily shrinking in popularity.

Every social network and forum has experienced the same phenomenon.



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