Back in the DT days I was actively lurking that forum, and I was checking it from time to time... pity it had to come down to this, I'm sorry for those who were active there.
In the era of social media, having a long running forum feels like a nice thing, for example when I was younger I basically cyber-lived on the Blind Guardian forum and that got me many friends, both italian and foreign, that I still have to this day, it was a pity to see everyone migrate to Facebook, but it would have been even worse to see the forum suddenly closed after criticisms of a new Blind Guardian album.