My unbaked opinion is that a majority of the forum was a javascript help board and with the advent of more advanced and silly web frontends the ability to 'copy

My unbaked opinion is that a majority of the forum was a javascript help board and with the advent of more advanced and silly web frontends the ability to 'copy paste' a snippet is less viable for javascript guys and so a lot of the value of being a front end snippet repository is lost to the fact you now need a primer on the flavor of javascript, the build tools, the package management and it's 200 LOC across three files to get your react bloat to work.