Forums

I’ve never been a big forum user, even back in the day. For the last couple of years I’ve been using them a bit more. Specifically to get answers to bugs I encounter in software I try out and use, Textpattern for example. In the last couple of days I’ve happened on two examples of people using forums like back in the day, sort of an ongoing conversation, community type thing. I hadn’t spent time thinking about it but if someone had asked me I would have said forums were dead but, seemingly, they aren’t. How about you, throngs of unknown readers, forums? Use ‘em, love ‘em?