I assume he still pays for the hosting, and likely has done for 9 years. Forums are dying, the death of this forum and Autostadt seem to be inevitable.
All traffic seems to be moving to facebook, which is crap if you want to document a build thread etc.
I wonder how many contributing members we actually have anymore? There's not much in terms of build threads anymore.
I think the question is, is there a point in keeping it alive and if so, how do we do it?