First, nowadays kids which bought a Steam game won't go on internet and search for a forum like this, they will just use what Steam gives them - and by that I mean: they have everything in their gaming platform itself (Steam), and they can easily access that community with their phones. But that is not even a community to me, Stronghold Heaven and Stronghold Nation are far better than that, but nowadays kids have everything on their hand, and if you want them to visit your forum - you have to put it into their hands. I may be too much enthusiastic about some stuff, but I just feel like having an Android, an iOS, and a Universal Windows Platform app for visiting these forums would be helpful. But even that wouldn't work without promotion... But, if they want it to succeed, they would definitely have to go after those younger people - I feel like this forum is in this state because simple most of us got busy with their studies or with our work, and there weren't enough younger people to fill in that gap. And if this place managed to stay more live, even we would be visiting this forum more frequently.
I remember how we were discussing before about email notifications for Stronghold Heaven, and they were saying how that would be too much for servers of Heaven Games. For example, on Stronghold Nation I may not write frequently, but when somebody writes something in Stronghold Crusader forum, I am going to see that right away. Heaven Games just don't seem to be willing to invest into this.