CaverScott wrote:is the forum dead, or is the forum just lacking new posts? Check out the details of these JUNE 2018 postings. See how many views they have? (over 3900 for one and over 1400 for the other)
What say you?
Not dead, just slumbering.
Note that one of those topics you mentioned was started in January this year, not June. So 3900 page hits is not all that unusual in a 6 month period. This also includes many different search engines ("bots") that crawl the forum every day, in addition to some of us moderators and other folks who read posts regularly but perhaps have less time or motivation to post as much as they used to. Or something like that.