OT is practically dead now. Not sure what you guys are seeing.
It used to be a place to hear about news faster than literally CNN or any mainstream media outlet. Like... we learned about the Las Vegas shooting through someone posting local tweets about the shooting way before any major site had it. That stuff is priceless and now will never happen again. There simply isn't enough people who call this home to get that kind of real-time reach anymore.
"Boo hoo, so you'll have to wait 10 minutes to learn about something on CNN."
That's not the point. The point is this was a news aggregator for not only serious world events, but also tech, space, pop culture, movie trailers, memes, etc... It was a beautiful mix of things I find interesting delivered in REAL TIME as it happened.
And now it's gone.
I 100% agree NeoGAF became extremely toxic since Trump won. Any political or social thread became a mess of one-liner drive-bys all spewing the same far-left rhetoric. "No sympathy", "When is he getting impeached?", "Fuck you orange turd"... We get it, he's a bad President. But when 75% of the content is worthless echo chamber one-liners, it's a pain to sort through it for actual thoughtful content.
All this site needed was strict moderation on low-content REPLIES to a thread. It doesn't need moderation on the actual thread topics. This place would have been absolutely perfect with that.
Instead, we have where it is today. And it's never going back. And worst of all, "other site" has the worst of OldGAF, namely the drive-by one liner echo chamber responses, without the best of OldGAF, namely the real-time widespanning content reach.
It's like the community was at some critical mass before where news aggregation was extremely effective, and now that it's split neither community has that capability anymore.