We already have reddit, what's the need for another Reddit-style messsage board?

With the traditional forums on the website and a very popular subreddit, two different audiences were catered to. People who liked a normal forum with posts in chronological order and a more coherent thread ordering were able to go to Riot's official community site and use it. It was useful for long term threads such as small-time stream advertisements, project progression threads, and other time based discussions.

With the subreddit, people were able to visit the page and see all the top stories and submissions. It is really good for seeing what's hot in the community at a glance, have a good laugh at the top comments and check out what the pros are up to.

Without both types of communities, users are forced into adopting the second type of discussion board. There no longer is any place for people who used a forum style board better besides small third-party websites who more often than not spring up and die in a matter of weeks. In essence, half the users were told they have no place in the community discussions and the other half now will have to split traffic between the subreddit or the official discussion board.

Eventually, if this reddit-style board goes through, the users will end up picking which site they like better and the other will wilt from lack of traffic and content or they will simply have the same content mirrored between the two as people duo post their material on both sites. Why do we want that?...