I think forums will make a comeback eventually.
Because all social media platforms like ig/twitter/youtube/fb has started quenching free speech and going hard on banning so called "far right" or anything non-SJW really last year or so.
Ron and getbig has kept a quite high ceiling on opinions but maybe he will be pressured to stop allowing free speech too eventually. By then this forum will be dead also.
In sweden we have one forum that is huge(in Forum terms) and very much alive. Over half million users. And reason it is alive is because it has free speech. The marxist goverment has tried shutting that forum down many many times. But has failed because the forum server is locatad in another country than Sweden. And if they started a nation shutdown on traffic there that would be very totalitarian and obvious dictatorship, like Chinas goverment limited internet. And that's why they don't dare to do it,,, yet anyways....