This was one of the communities I came from, a Star Wars fan site Blueharvest.net. I was a moderator for a couple sections of its forum back in its waning days. The site admin devoted a lot of time and energy to the project (amazing person...love her to death), and eventually as people began to migrate to Facebook she decided to close the website's door.
Still miss that place a lot. I made some lasting friendships there because we were a very tight-knit community of about 100-150 active users.
Madison_rogue