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Bash , i think John was labeling the forum as dead when it come to maintenance and dev , not about people makng it alve , witch is basically why i love this place.
 
He's totally right about the forum , even when Cake was hearthy , it wasn't on the level of actual standard 
The cakewalk alternatve forums (beyond my daw ect) were a great idea , and better layout out , i think f they don't want to handle this they should let bapu or others handle it 

Bash von Gitfiddle
...I would say that the forum is what you make of it. I often see people complaining about the forum, and often times the complaints are from people I rarely see offer any answers or even ask questions. A significant number of people seem to be satisfied with simply making comments which may or may not be pertinent to some particular topic, and that seems, to me, to be a natural extension of the free and lively discourse that defines a forum in its classical form.  

Well said, Bash.
 
I've had some of my best conversations in the narrowest forum of all, a series of group email exchanges. A tiny number of participants, and the mini-forum simply dies when they tire of the topic. Still, the content is often substantive because every contributor is self-selected and therefore invested in the discussion.

Before I retired one of roles was managing an internal tech support "help desk" and knowledge management for a technical domain in a large international corporation.  The key to core knowledge management system was classification and verification, this made searching and browsing very easy. Verification and a user feedback system meant the content was reliable and frequently reviewed.
 
We also had builtin boards which did not have classification or verification, this is the case on a forum such as this. We could harvest the best from the builtin boards and convert into content for the the KM system. This requires a work and staff allocated to the task.
 
To some extent the chaos inherent in forums and bulletin boards is their strength, people are more open in such an environment. The down side is chaos,  like here where the sub-forum system is often bypassed and posts end up in the "wrong" sub-forum. If a moderator moves a post people often get upset.
 
Introducing classifications may help in finding information but the required manpower and costs would be prohibitive.
 
I think the the introduction of more sub-forums seems like a good idea but in practice it would only be effective if strictly moderated, which in turn would discourage participation. Catch 22.