All the communication now is on social media places, as websites are integrating comments into the articles and skipping the community all together. Integrating Disqus, Facebook, etc into the comments of articles let's people discuss the articles, but they eventually fall off the page and nobody goes back to look for the discussion. And when that happens, you don't get to know people as "members" and establish any form of relationship with them.
I see all the conversations happening in Twitter feeds, Facebooks articles as well.
I guess I am old school and prefer the community driven forums, but the are a dying breed. GT Planet I feel has done a good job, as they integrated their article comments so that it turns into a forum post as people post in the article comments.