Personally in crunch time at work, and I know a lot of people for who things are busy between end of year work activities and upcoming holidays. But also:
- don't these boards still struggle with letting new people in? Every web community withers without a steady inflow of new members
- there hasn't been a new substantial new release in some time, each of those tends to spark some discussion (if only for errata)
- we are pretty deep into 6e, later in an edition always seems a bit slower as people who have played a particular edition for a while tend to have less questions
- just in general I've found that the ShadowRun sub-reddit had become more active than these boards quite a while back, and now there is the discord too for people who want a more controlled space (although I just went to the Discord and saw the general CGL channels but not the SR ones? But it looks like my Discord may be messed up somehow, that might just be me). But even those seem a bit quiet lately (I hadn't checked the Discord in several days, but last I looked it had slowed down)
Personally I'm excited because in my home game we just finished up Third Parallel in grand style, and I can finally start getting ready for Scotophobia events (we have a couple of interludes to get through first, but it is getting close enough that I can pretty much rely on where characters will be so that I can plan the dramatic start).
