This is the main reason we're keeping the forum for now. It's mainly being utilized as an mIRC Q&A forum. The reason it needs to be deprecated is we need to focus our service. In the past this site has been too broad, thus the lack of growth.

What worked for the mIRC community 10 years ago doesn't work for the broader development community today. We just need to catch up.

Do you frown upon people asking for help as a status update?

No, that is part of the intended purpose.

In that case, I guess there isn't a real need for the forums, except for perhaps extended discussions & the tutorials. Speaking of the tutorials, do you have pageview statistics on parts of or the whole of the forums?

Tutorials can be done as snippets. I plan to upgrade the snippet system to support multiple code blocks, so this will make the forum tutorials obsolete. I have statistics of my own, but the forum does keep track of pageviews on its own.

It would be interesting to see which parts of the forums receive the most pageviews

It's the index and both mIRC forums that receive the most traffic. The forum is entirely mIRC related traffic.

I find it harder to get to the forum. Sometimes I find it good to go over some of my old posts/questions.

@Stewie1k94 That is intentional. The forum is very old software and has served its purpose over the years. Now its time to move on to our newer technology.

Okay. The new ideas do sound good though. :)