When did the dev's stop reading the forums?

[Jeeqbit]

I don't know who all reads the forums, or which sections of it, but several someones working at SE read them. They are moderated (somewhat) and I've been contacted in-game by support regarding a bug report (which was shortly addressed and fixed), so they very obviously read those.

I was as well. They used to actually reply to the forum posts with bug reports, but they stopped at a certain point and I understand why they probably did, because it adds a lot of extra time and complication to try and deal with volatile emotions on forums and compose posts when there is a job to do.