is this forum dieing?

I used to get tones of responses daily in the support area, but lately I’ve gone days without responses. is there some competing site? is blender less popular than it used to be?

I don’t know about that, but I did find that asking questions on blender stack exchange actually gets answers faster than BA. Might also be that there are people that are busy with work and not available to give support as much right now.

Try: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/

You appear to be limiting your threads to Python and Game Engine. You should get get around more. If you look at the amount of posting activity made every day then the answer can only be no.

Maybe nobody knows the answer to your questions
Maybe your questions are asked badly
Maybe there is so much activity your questions drop down the list of latest posts and go into oblivion
Maybe nobody likes you
Who knows ?