[2023] Have forum competitions ended?

They have, as well as our announcements and release notes, these are now all located on Discord.  

We are indeed hoping to keep Forums open, and are monitoring the numbers closely to see if there is any upsurge on the Forums in not only the number of posts but also the number of unique users.
As usual the more the merrier here, as it really will help us.  

This has been player demand and has been constant for at least the 5 years I know about here, currently we are seeing if these thousands of requests for this can work to help the community - or not.
As with anything without actually trying this, we would never know the extent to how it could roll....so here we are rolling with the requests and seeing how that rolls...  

@OldHag We get most of our requests directly to support, as most players bypass the Forum entirely for this. There are a few Discord mentions prior to our announcement if you use the search option here 9around 5 pages full). Hence here we are currently with this discussion.  

They have been, but many players do not wish to register to join the Forum to do this.