RB, your thread openers are what finally got me to actually join the site and start commenting after years of lurking. I miss those days quite a bit too. It was always great to have threads go off on completely random topics and almost totally void of baseball. Now we get complaints about another ridiculous game thread about food. It was once a pretty solid rule of thumb that the less baseball discussion, the better the thread. Those days are long gone.
Game Threads are a lot of work, but when they were fun, they weren't work at all.
As for the rest of the site, I've also stopped reading a lot of the front page stuff. It's not that I'm not necessarily interested in it, but often that my time is limited and I'd rather read things in the forums. I do think a lot of the front page articles are borderline click baity. I don't mean to disparage the writers, I couldn't do their job, but I think the front page gets saturated with quantity over quality.