I know exactly what you mean, the dedicated forums always had more specialized knowledge and regulars who were the go-to guys for tough questions.
When everything moved to reddit the specialized, knowledgeable regulars didn't follow and everything became more generalized, discussion of more interesting ideas died and was replaced with shitty memes or attention seeking posts that might as well be spam.

The restructuring of image shack and photobucket also did a huge number to them (all of the good posts and tutorials are useless without pics). Also, most of the forums now all seem to be owned by the same handful of companies. Like they all got bought out by a few groups, implemented new rules and now they're pretty dead.
I miss me forums. 

 One I used to frequent is now a dead tapatalk page and all of the links and pictures are dead.

Want to put back in the content stripped out of Boktai DS?  Well I guess you’re going to have to do it from fucking scratch, because the people who did it before you had their website trashed. 

 For those who are curious, you had to open the .nds file in a packaging manager, Go to a specific part of the package, and overwrite the American files with the Japanese files.

And then drop in a custom translation file to switch the text that you just overwrote with English again.