Just took a quick look at GAF and it is a sad sight to behold. Barely any traffic in the OT, with threads that was last commented on several days ago still on the first page. The community-OT threads are completely empty. The gaming side is doing a little better with more than a full page of new comments on threads, but threads with new comments goes as far back as yesterday. Before, you had to go 8-10 pages deep before you start seeing comments made 24 hours ago. Now, I am seeing threads that was commented on two days ago on 12/30 on the second page. The community-Gaming side is similarly sparse of activity.
I cannot imagine that there's more than a couple hundred users still using NeoGAF, with at least half of them just lurking (Lurking what? I don't know). Evilore investing in new community features seems like a waste of time and money. At this point, GAF is a sunk cost and Evilore would be wise to unload it however he can.