As the hosting cost goes down and the userbase gets more and more insular SA will probably stay around until the last user that joined in 2010-ish dies off. Just a cycle of users taking turns being power hungry mods running off a free AWS instance.
Eventually they might get a working search.
I'm sure the one thread that the last 10 posters will be easy to work with.
There are forums I used to actively post on in the early 2000s that are still up and running with like ten members, none of whom were on the sites back in their heyday. SA will be around forever.
That's the issue, though. Jeff paid like (allegedly) $400,000 for it (and it's 100% not worth that).
There will always be power-hungry spergs waiting in the wings for an opportunity to one-up other spergs.
Whenever you browse an old forum thread (and this is *any* nerd community) you can tell who still posts there by who's changed their profile pic to some uggo troon fursona.
I'm guessing most of SA's revenue comes from multiple reregs and troons/tankies/schizoids buying avs for their posting enemies.
They hope that by doing the troll’s remorse routine, they can get in front of whatever they posted and be given a pass. I’ve seen it all over various forums over the years. It’s pathetic.
SA will keep limping along until the last troon 41%’s xyrself. Even if Jeffrey pulls the plug, there will be another attempt at one. It’s become a routine habit to post there for a few dozen people and they’ll keep it going. It’ll be a faggy version of those Japanese soldiers in the 1970s thinking World War II is still going on.
They're like snooty ex-drunks sneering at people who do what they used to do, and act superior even to (most) people who were never drunks in the first place.
Like Japanese holdouts but with even more unwarranted self importance.
In 2054, at a tiny corner of the post-singularity neural web network, there will be two greasy geriatric faggots in pods wearing dresses and rocking skullets with bad dye jobs asking each other if they have stairs.
