Comment by zaphirplane

3 months ago

Scrolled looking for this comment the decline appears to be way earlier than LLM agents becoming popular.

But where did all the users go is something that would be interesting

Mostly: Discord, Github issues (as forum), X (twitter at the time), and Discourse! Discourse was growing steadily, even startups like OpenAI and neobanks like nubank (Brazil) had forums for their users because keeping your community active and close was something considered valuable (devrel since then has experienced a rapidly decline).