I've been part of dying communities before,
This is not one.
Gimbal is.
Let me tell you the story of Gimbal...
Will, an absolute asshole, he played the game with glitched ships, and cheated constantly, and then went and called people names on the steam forums, this, slowly killed the dwindling fanbase, until eventually the game was truly dead, and now if you open up the game you'd be lucky to see one server with humans on.
I've only ever played with one person who was on in my quite large play time.
That game suffered from something else: multiplayer only.
This means the game will never come back to life.
If cosmoteer forums did die somehow.
It would be possible people would still play the game, and then make a mod or post a set of ships.
But yes, the forums have entered a stagnant phase of lack of activity, due to "veterans" leaving and no nubs joining as YouTubers are not playing this game as much I don't think, and if they are their subs are not coming to download it, as well as making mods seeming like a bad idea due to the incoming changes.
But we all have to respect, that one day in the coming years after the steam release (hopefully) fixes this, these forums will enter this phase again, never to exit it again. Then, we can truly make threads like these, and said threads will have more meaning than one now ever will.