It's popular because they have young people forming the bulk of their forumers. It's sort of an automatic place you join when you are starting your young forum life. The thread topics are younger and attract more young people yearly. So they have self renewal unlike other forums. I was from there when younger but when you age and the topics become a bit "boring" for me. Plus the moderator there will ban you for no reason. After hwz, i migrated to edmw.xyz. But that stupid forum is like a ghost forum. It started well but it was always running out of money because the owner liked to include fanciful features which waste lots of money. Then, started asking for more and more donations. So I left too and came over here. SgForums is for people talk about investments and shares. It was not my genre.