With the developers expressing desires to continue the project, let’s hope they could make it work in their own time.
Well, I believe Theymos took a good decision by halting that Epochtalk project as investing more money into a project like that is somehow waste of money.
I agree with the sheriff, PowerGlove is the one to consider as paid developer if that's even needed to improve the current forum instead of moving to in-house built forum software from scratch. As far as I know the guy has really helped the forum a lot by regularly patching it. Thumbs up for PowerGlove!
PowerGlove is a very talented fellow, his contribution to the progress of this forum is one I believe every active user here can attest to, in a short time of him joining the forum, he's worked on several features and patches we now enjoy today, big up to him always 💪
He is an asset whom I think Theymos should consider working with, alongside all the others who have over time shown their capabilities in contributing to the development and progress of the forum, others like Loycev, TryNinja and the likes..
I honestly do not see the need of wasting so much money on a new forum when this one still works, with this mentioned names on board, and maybe plus a few more good developers added to form a team, this forum can be improved in both designs and functions.