Hello AlphaDevil! It's so nice to see a familiar face from AF!
I fear what really killed AF (personally I never felt any bad vibes there) was the fact that we suddenly weren't allowed to post download links anymore because Ricci used Google ads to pay for the server or sth. If you don't even know what you're allowed to post it doesn't help at all.
Also people just went away simply because they lost interest and in times of fb and Twitter a forum doesn't have the same appeal as in previous years. The German forum started dying even sooner and I have to admit I also stopped posting there because there were simply no responses and I could have more interesting conversations with my kitchen wall.
I do miss AF a lot. I always enjoyed the conversations there.