A reminder that Epochtalk is open source and anyone can pick up the development from where they left off. And even the original dev team stated they will still work on an independent version.
After Bitcointalk Search is up, I plan to make a read-only version of the forum using the archived posts that can be viewed from some Epochtalk lookalike.
That being said, any project that does not get enough manhours assigned to it is going to fail.
within a couple years this would be a modern Web3 forum
That sounds just like another buzz-word mostly used by DeFi-scams. I'd leave this forum if it turns into some dynamic moving site where algorithms decide what I get to read.
A modern forum can provide both a dynamic buzz type content, or a static one, depending on your preference. We can't be wary of new technologies because we're not familiar with them.
Wallet extensions like Metamask and Ethereum turn every site into a Web3 site because of Ethereum EIPs 6963 and 1193. I realized this after I had accidentially connected the DOGE website to my coinbase wallet while fooling around in devtools.