What's going on with the site?

[theAngryMarmot]

Everyone can go buy and run their own servers/pay for their own webhosting services, software etc, instead of complaining how a free site is run.

While you have a point - it is a free site - let us be honest, the owner of this site doesn't have the server and gear sitting in his house to run this place. It is hosted by a third party (easily obtainable via a whois search) and they handle the equipment, upkeep, maintenance, core software, and hardware. It is fairly easy / inexpensive to run a forum these days - especially one with as little traffic as this one. I am not downplaying the effort here - just laugh when someone makes a comment that eludes to it being a expensive/difficult proposition when it isn't (and as I type this I am sitting in my home office with 4 rack mount enterprise grade servers, storage, and gear on a rack - I know how much the kinda of equipment costs.)

I think the more valid sentiment here other than "create your own" would be "don't like it? See ya....."