Supergroups V Chat channels

A trip down memory lane first.

During the first 2 years of me being here i would always be on the lookout of an active supergroup so i can interact with other people and have a good time. This worked great for me since i was lucky enough to be part of some really good supergroups and made great friends [most of which have left the game unfortunately but hopefully they'll be back!], but i never used chat channels for anything apart from supergroup specific channels.

Now as time went on and i got more in to chat channels, i started using supergroups less and less until one day i decided to create my own supergroup [with two of my friends] and try and build an awesome group. The first few months it seemed like it was going really well, the supergroup was really active and we had numerous base builders within the group. After a while though it did slowly become inactive and 2 of the co-leaders left/took a break leading me as the sole person in charge.

So once again i became more and more into chat channels, my supergroup had became a sort of personal base/home with chat channels being used for communication/general chit chat with the rest of the server. During my early time here i had always purely used the coalition/supergroups tabs to organise such things but these days i hardly ever see or hear anybody use them. Instead it seems that people are now using the channels as a sort of server wide supergroup?

So do people these days use supergroups in a different way to the early days now? Have chat channels become the main source of communication between players instead of supergroups? Should chat channels have a base as well?

Pointless "damz thought" thread i know but im just curious about these sort of things!