No, forums died because of a two-fold hit - Tapatalk bought out exclusivity rights for mobile access on most of the bigger forums, then did jack with it and mad

No, forums died because of a two-fold hit - Tapatalk bought out exclusivity rights for mobile access on most of the bigger forums, then did jack with it and made their phone app unusable. The other death knell was Facebook getting on the phone train early, which meant that people moved to FB en-masse (which was already happening but got accelerated due to this.)