Amusingly enough, Seals is also how I found bitcoins and I tried to play on SWC through the summer but the games just dried up so much that there was never really any games to play.
I'm in the same boat. I used to love seals. While it wasn't actually how I first found bitcoin, it was one of the first things I did with bitcoin when I found it. They had an open and accessible platform, no bullshit, no collecting personal data, etc. Beautiful.
I finally came to grips that seals actually died back in the day and swc is simply not sealwithclubs. It's a different site with different management and different principles. The new site is focused on Windows players and we see how that worked out. As far as I can tell, it's just a long slow deathride here. It's unfortunate but we may as well come to grips with the reality. Pretending it's not real doesn't make it any less real.