It's a shame. I've been on the DS Forums for 9 years this very month and I've come across many decent posters on there.
But like many others, I've not been very pleased with the direction that the forums have taken these past years (particularly since the EU ref).
Like many others, I've felt the Politics forum in particular had become a vipers nest of one-sided opinion and hyper-wokeness - where anyone who voted Leave or votes Tory got shouted down as a "gammon" (I say this as someone who has done neither). The double standards with the moderation didn't help either.
And the GD forum wasn't much better at times! I dared to defend the concept of free speech and to show concern about cancel culture in a thread (including the right of people to express views which myself and others may find offensive) and the GD clique, headed up by Lucy Van Pelt and Boo Radley75 in this instance, ganged up on me with some very personal insults and then made sure I got a temporary ban. All for defending someone else's right to free speech, despite not personally agreeing with their opinion!
So after that slap in the face last June, I'd mostly stayed away from DS GD and Politics ever since. I think it's outrageous the way the DS mods silence anyone who doesn't read from the same script.