I've been to numerous events and listened to talks, and almost always, a unity employee is on a panel. They say the same thing: Their greatest asset is the community they've built. They stress this over and over, and how much their company values their community. They claim it is one of the things which set them apart from other engines. I have a hard time believing that Unity would suddenly decide to take its most prized possession and decide it's no longer important.
I'm sure they had good intentions, like rebooting the wiki and linking it to the forum, which makes a lot of sense. The problem is that they rolled out a broken trainwreck of a forum (just sign up and try to use it for a while, you'll see) against the advice of moderators, who have been pillars of the community for years, and then didn't roll back the forum to the old software, in spite of over 1000 complaint posts and core members leaving left and right. I've seen forum communities "die" over much less intrusive changes. I don't doubt they have good intentions for their community, but their actions speak a different language, no logical explanation has been given and left up to speculation people don't come to any positive conclusions.
Anyways, I'm totally disconnected from the Unity community since I use the Unreal Engine. Maybe I'm totally wrong, but I'd need more substantial proof than just a few random internet posts by possibly disaffected people from that community.
If you are interested to see it first hand, it's probably best you check out the two big feedback threads:
https://community.unity.com/t5/Welcome/New-forum-feedback-thread/td-p/2631825
https://community.unity.com/t5/General-Discussion/New-Unity-forums-look/td-p/2642966
Design changes always receive some amount of backlash, but this is orders of magnitude worse than what's to be expected from a layout change, even from a bad one. We've lost soooo much functionality compared to the old forum, you wouldn't believe it.
But I'm trying to leave all the negativity these changes have caused behind, and make a fresh start here. I just wanted to give you a bit of an explanation and links, in case you want to take a look yourself. :)
I see GameDev.net being more of a engine and language agnostic knowledge base
As a noob who just arrived here that's what it looked to me too, and I think it's a good thing. =)
Welcome to the new members/refugees.
Thanks, this really seems to be a friendly place :).