# Anyone else seeing a drastic drop in community activity for Support forums?

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**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [June 16, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-else-seeing-a-drastic-drop-in-community-activity-for-support-forums/405401 "2026-06-16T12:56:31Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anyone-else-seeing-a-drastic-drop-in-community-activity-for-support-forums/405401/12 "2026-06-16T15:19:06Z")

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My forum is more than 30 years old and about a quite niche activity.  
It has steady activity and engagement, but I think the members grow older and “retiring” users are not completely replaced by new folks. I might see a decrease in several years, but who knows 🤔 I’m not sure AI has a real impact on my forum health, but I guess it depends from a forum to another.  
I sure hope that in the future forums will spark again the same interest in people as they did in 2005-2010 😄

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I think it’s always interesting to share this curve: from 2001 to 2026 (pre-2001 data was non-existent), 15 years of activity. Sharp spike in mid-2020 was migration to Discourse… 😎 :discourse:.

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> [@JammyDodger](#):
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> Speculation… 🙂 but I’ve been wondering if more people becoming more comfortable turning to AI as a first port of call would impact communities

> [@merefield](#):
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> Seeing the same thing and must admit my own habits corroborate this.

I would not have tought about that, but that happens to me too. For many questions, AI has unfortunately been way faster and reliable than communities to answer :lolsob:.

I wonder what could be done for a hobbyists\[1\] forum to be more attractive and more appealing. More than AI; additionally to more than social media.

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1. meaning “non-commercial”

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