Gotta admit, I'm a lurker over there, in that I just check in every couple of days (mainly due to a link from several years ago to an active, real time radar that I use when storms are a-comin'), just find the whole situation fascinating (yeah I know, get a life) the whole abandonment of a thriving message board. Plus I love watching a slow motion train wreck. And seeing what nutjob mofo will say next (although even the novelty seems to have worn off for him, only posts every 5 days or so now...).
I did notice that in the last day or so the post count went up by about 5, and the members count increased by 1, even though the shown newest member joined in August of last year. So there is obviously another secret squirrel area that somebody is using over there, for what purposes I have no idea, mods I guess. I guess if you want to pay for a message board to be your own private text messenger, go for it.