I was referring to the manga side by the way, I don't know how this will affect the lounge itself.
I know that, but i'm guessing that the lounge will slowly deteriorate once the main source of newbies is cut off.
My forum life started by me accidentally stumbled into this part of the site, and i'm pretty sure many people here got their start from reading the manga side of the forums and eventually finding their way here. I'm betting in a few years, once the activity in the forums has decreased drastically, the higher up will make the excuse of "Nobody uses this part of the site anymore, so its redundant" and finally killing the other half off.