I know this has been raised not that long ago.
What with facebook and all the other social media offerings has WOL finally had its day?
I have it up as a default tab but I've noticed that now the new topics or active topics shows no results. And hardly ever does.
WOL was mostly a small minority of voices with a much larger base of non contributors.
The smal minority has now almost gone and I suspect those that just popped in to read don't much any more.
Still it was useful for the time it had.