I sometimes open up the forums to see if anything else interested has been posted.
It costs Badspot next to nothing to run, so he has no reason to shut it down
I'm not entirely sure of this?
I've been meaning to make a topic and share
some forum stats I copypasted into an Excel spreadsheet to visualize forum activity over the years but just haven't gotten around to it. I don't know the hosting cost for the server(s) this forum is/are hosted on, but the amount of visitors the forum has been receiving is at the highest it's been ever. Most of them are likely forum bots scraping every forum for LLM training data.
Maybe later today I can share the graphs I made if I'm not too
lazy busy. I think it'd make for an interesting topic.