I dunno, I didn't really start coming here until just before D1 released (bar the odd visit on b.old) and both #offtopic and #gaming were jumping. Numbers swelled as more and more people got disillusioned with destiny. Loads of people got banned during forum wars but jumped on alts, then I saw it slowly die off as bungie moved away from yahoo and Hotmail verification until only XBL and PSN were left. More people got banned for using the term desticle cos apparently it's derogatory, despite there being a nickname for all the previous generations of b.net users (threetard for H3 etc). Mods had largely left #offtopic alone for the first year or two after D1 launched, but suddenly they took an interest and banned people for things that had been part of the culture since at least I had joined ie "rule 34" and "op is fgt", and certainly part of online culture for a decade previously. I think a lot of people used #offtopic as an escape and a place to chill on the edge of what's considered socially acceptable, and bungo wanted a more family friendly forum for their new game but in making it so they destroyed everything that made the forums the forums. I stopped coming here around the time kings fall hard raid dropped cos the flood were gone and the forums were stagnating. The few times I've been back since haven't changed my mind on anything. It's a shame, I had a lot of fond memories of what this place used to be.