Excellent news! I am just glad something has happened to wake up this group. (The silence has been deafening )
Most of the community has moved on to other things, or become busy with the realities of adult life. Ebb and flow, man.
So what's the future of this forum? Is it going to stay up or are we going to shut it down at the next hosting renewal period?
That's arguably a good question, one that I don't really know the answer to.
I presume until then you will inspire those of us that have not grown up to adulthood yet but rather gave into fandom of this forum...
Before I push us too far off the rails and into the weeds, I would like to clarify my original statement a bit. The point I'm trying to make (and articulated poorly) is that a large number of the content producers and discussion contributors have gone on to other things. If you read back into posts from 2007-2013, there were a lot of active users who just aren't around here anymore, for a lot of different reasons. Some moved on to other phases in their lives. Others don't have the amount of time to watch as much anymore (because we're not coming home after grade school or high school anymore) or the resources (cable/satellite is spendy when you're on your own, even the streaming packages). Some just grew disenchanted with the direction that the network took; for some that started in July 2008, for others that didn't bottom out until WATT. Others just kind of phased into different places; they'll still check in, but less often. At the end of the day, you still have a community that lost a large number of its main content producers. Does that mean we should shutter our doors? I'm inclined to say no, especially because this place still acts as a really solid reference site for a lot of TWC history and info.
TL;DR - I don't think the community is going to be what it once was, but it doesn't necessarily have to be. If you'd like discussion to occur, take the reins and start having it. It's quieter here, these days, but silence can end when you start discussing things. If you see something interesting, talk about it. If you have a question, bring it up. It might take longer to hear back with an answer than it used to, but this place can still act as a resource. Failing that, read back through 10 years of threads. There's some pretty funny stuff buried in there.