Howdy! I'm actually Apollo, the former GameWinners Community Administrator. As you might be able to tell, I used to love GameWinners and all that it was, but sadly the owner decided that it was time to pull the plug. Cheat codes had worked their way out of video games altogether, so he felt the site as a whole was no longer viable, and I suppose he had something of a point. Those of us in the community kept trying to revamp the site, giving him ideas for new directions, offering to help develop the site and even in my case migrating the community from vBulletin 3 to XenForo, adding in the resource manager so that we could import the cheat code database which Al (the owner) had decided to retire. A group of us worked to restore the cheat code database, but eventually our access to the codes was restricted so we simply couldn't continue, traffic continually slowed and...well...that was it. We had a great ending, at least, because news got out things were closing and a great deal of our former member base came back for a farewell, but we still closed the doors.
We've got the Subreddit, a Facebook group and a Discord, but it's not the same thing. We try to make do, though, because for a lot of us that's the only contact we still have with each other after nearly two decades of posting and having fun together. It was a great time and I still miss the site, but it's also great reading things like this which show how far spread the site was in its' earlier days, and how many people made use of it.