But I really am blown away that PLEBA has essentially died. That used to be the biggest hive of activity. I can't say I'm complaining, the thirstiest PLEBAns were a bit much, but it's definitely a big change.
Speaking for myself, I do miss the activity in that section of the forums. I haven't been in the main PLEBA section in years, but I remember some fun times there.
I think the section of that forum I miss the most, though, is the PLEBAns subforum, where we'd chat about any and everything under the sun, U2-related or not. That section was pretty active even just five, six years ago, and we had lots of fun conversations there.
But yeah, between PLEBA essentially dying away and my not really being able to join in on much of the U2 conversation around here (a lot of it has been surrounding their tours, and I've yet to see them live, so...), that's been a factor in limiting the areas of the forums where I hang out nowadays, too.
(I should work on spending more time in the sections that focus on discussion of U2's albums and songs, though. I used to hang out there quite a bit back in the day, I don't know why that changed, really.)