So we had a statement that Riot are shutting down the boards. We never got to know WHY they are choosing to do so. It would be great if we had an official statement stating why now. Why not last year or 6 months ago? Everyone deserves to know.
https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/community/saying-farewell-to-boards/
"However, after looking at how many of you were using Boards, it became clear that the popularity of the platform had decreased significantly. Both players and Rioters have migrated to other community discussion platforms such as Reddit and Discord, leaving Boards underpopulated."
I dont know why now.
Note that Sony did the same recently: https://kotaku.com/the-playstation-forums-are-closing-down-1841750227
they have stopped carrying what we think and this proves it
I think they were pretty clear on why they're deleting the boards. We used to have the old, traditional bulletin board style forum which had TONS of traffic and everyone loved it. Then one day, Riot announced that they were going to do something that literally no one asked for - delete the forums and replace them with reddit, except it's blue and has a bunch of weird bugs. Once the boards were literally just reddit but worse, the people who hated reddit style forums left, and the people who liked them went to reddit because why would you choose the objectively inferior option. The boards became a ghost town, which OBVIOUSLY is the community speaking loud and clear that they do not want a league of legends discussion forum, so Riot, as the most community focused game company in the world, is giving the people what they want and deleting boards.
