The bit about apartment searching made me shudder. Dedicated apartment search web sites already suck enough at providing relevant information in an easily searchable form, the idea of searching through unorganized text is just insane.<p>Unfortunately I know the author has a point. In the car community forums are losing traffic like crazy while Facebook groups have constant traffic. The Facebook groups are absolutely horrible to use but it's where the people are. With no ability to categorize or "sticky" threads the discussions are a disaster, but for some reason a lot of people are fine with that.