by stadi
I don't think that it makes sense to insist to use one own website in the age of social media and Boardgamegeek.I'm not saying they should completely abandon their forum, but anyway using BGG makes much more sense.
I tried to use and participate the forum in the beginning but it was really annoying and I simply stopped using it alltogether. The worst was the notification system if you did not check new posts for some time they were not shown as new so you missed a lot of posts.