I still run a couple of fairly popular forums which I setup coming on nearly 15 years ago now. All powered by phpBB and recently Flarum was used for the latest site.
There's still demand there for smaller communities and while some members have dropped off over the years it's still the most popular way to keep in touch with the latest happenings, none of the other social networks really took any of the traffic away.
I'd love to see more spring up - for me there's always more of a community feel, you get to know the regulars and everyone is there for that specific topic.
It's a little clunky these days but it's still a great piece of forum software.
There's still demand there for smaller communities and while some members have dropped off over the years it's still the most popular way to keep in touch with the latest happenings, none of the other social networks really took any of the traffic away.
I'd love to see more spring up - for me there's always more of a community feel, you get to know the regulars and everyone is there for that specific topic.
It's a little clunky these days but it's still a great piece of forum software.