So I think they're trying to save the website's legacy, and so many thousands backlinks and google search priviledge aswell.
The site has been having problems for over a year now. If the site were really under the same management, these problems wouldn't be happening, because they've run the business and the site for many years and already knew how to fix errors easily and quickly. Can't you see that it makes no sense that the site suddenly started having these errors and @thequin doesn't come here to explain everything? He was active in answering technical questions that people had problems with and apologized when he was late in responding.
If the site was making a lot of profit and the owners were the same, I highly doubt they would cancel the signature campaign. @thequin went to the signature campaign thread and apologized for ending the campaign. A person who makes this gesture is not someone who would leave it for a year without responding to anyone knowing that the site is having serious problems.