I think you should go back read Tommy the Accordionist's thread about the Forum Slowdown. Most of the old forum regulars checked in there.

No offense, but the topics lately have not been that interesting. Our newer members seem to have different, non-arranger interests. The old crew has performing interests in common too, so many threads drew in members' comments based on friendships and associations. Our new members haven't made that connection - yet.

I find I'm posting at "The Bar" more often and checking it as often, if not more often, than the Arranger forum.

I too hate to see the Arranger forum lose its vitality, but maybe it's a cyclical thing and it will revitalize itself over time. Or maybe it has reached its limits (hopefully not) and some of us need to move on.

In the end I must echo others' opinions that the Arranger forum hasn't been as much an arranger forum as a general synth forum with hundreds of members.