Tangentially, what would it take for forums to get a resurgence? Pseudo-centralization / connection through forum-software? Clearly a lot of users prefer the lo

Tangentially, what would it take for forums to get a resurgence? Pseudo-centralization / connection through forum-software? Clearly a lot of users prefer the long-form format. My own observations from the past decade+ is that the influx of new users to forums very quickly dissipated, and what remained is a senior membership clique with dwindling interest in discussion with each other, which led to exodus. This could all be owing to there being a hip-new-thing monopolizing people's attention rather than a failure on the part of forums... and there were a ton of forums. Until it implodes it seems people are satisfied expending their attention on reddit or discord. The other difficulty competing with reddit is, in part as an aggregator, it's a dopamine-pumping machine, updating with new headlines and content every instant.