Terrible click bait article. No, Internet forums are not dying... More people have a reddit account and it’s probably easier to just use those for info for developers. You don’t need to make another account and the potential user base is a lot higher from the start and Sony doesn’t need to pay anything to keep the forums going. The same goes for twitter. Loads of people already have a Twitter account and you get in touch directly to Sony faster. Big companies also use chat on their support sites a lot more, so even less reasons to have their own forums. Stuff shuts down because of inactivity. It doesn’t make any sense to keep something online if it’s rarely used, but it also makes no sense to shut something down if it’s used a lot.