Exactly. We need those back, and I don't think it's a coincidence that they died down when the forum opened.
I want to make sure that everyone has read the sticky note. I plan to make the locals boards redirect to the newspapers section on the wiki afterwards.
They died off WELL before the forum opened up. As I have said repeatedly, you are getting a lot of confirmation bias in this thread, just using those posts that agree with you to confirm your view without looking at the evidence in general.