Less and less SE interaction with forums community over time

[Loony_BoB]

I'm mostly curious if anyone else has noticed this - while we do get Live Letters and I adore them, two key parts of SE really regaining the faith of the community during the 1.x phase were:

1) Player Surveys, in which SE would ask everyone to advise on what their favoured content is, what they want SE to prioritise, etc.

2) Posts on forums, in which SE would occasionally respond to concerns of the users.

It seems over time the initial part (player surveys) was dropped entirely and that's within reason as there are no major concerns with sustainability like there were before, although I still do feel that this would do a huge amount of not regaining but retaining said faith.

Secondly, the posts on forums by SE staff have all but completely dried up. I used to check the Dev Tracker daily to see what was going on and these days it's months between replies.

I love the game, love the community, love the staff. I just don't want these kind of things to slowly and surely be left to die out. I miss feeling like we were with the staff in the forums. It's been especially noticeable after I took a year out of the game and came back (in May) and noticed the jarring change in communications compared to earlier years.

It's not an immediate major concern, just something I've noticed, wondered if others had also noticed, and wondered what the general opinion was, and generally thought it's one of those things better mentioned earlier rather than much, much later.

EDIT: Decided to check the Dev Tracker, it only goes back to 7th August 2019, but posts per day for each year included are:
2019 - 3.39 posts per day (264 posts over 147 days)
2020 - 0.64 posts per day (235 posts over 366 days)
2021 - 0.32 posts per day (73 posts over 228 days)