I feel like a lot of people still come to ResetERA, but most of afraid to post, because of banned over something minor, or what they say doesn't matter because they're a junior member, or being ridiculed over a opinion, or being attacked by multiple people with gifs and memes then getting banned/warned, or they don't want to argue so they don't post. I think likes should be implemented, there may be a lot people that agree with a post, but don't want to reply. When people hate something they're more likely to post and maybe drown out some discussion. Then maybe, if someone sees a post they agree with getting tons of likes, but getting bashed then perhaps they may more likely post without the fear of getting banned or something.
Anyway, there may be more people on Discord and Twitter as well, but I never understood how could they supplant forums, maybe IM, but not forums. Most Discords I've been a part of only talk about one topic, like Kingdom Hearts for example and most discussions happen too fast for me to be a part of and I miss out on most of the conversations if I'm away from chat. It's a bit more difficult to catch up on the discussion. Then if I want to talk about something else then I have to join another Discord server which may have hundreds of it's own channels of various stuff to catch up on.
Just my 2 cents.
