Thank you so much for your kind words.
Sadly we've been subject to a very bad move on part of the previous moderators, people whom I trusted. They left to create a new forum and used this forum as a gathering point, effectively stealing my users. The "new" forum was also advertised here without any regard for my work.
The new forum is made on free software with no central control, as in this forum, meaning that if the company that offers the free tools for the forum decides it is not suitable they can take it offline.
This forum on the other hand is handled by me on a private server, also handled by me entirely and with licensed software that I'm still paying. I don't have the slightest clue as to why someone will do something like that, trade a private platform with upmost privacy and a lot of features to grow in exchange for a free forum system which is basically slower and with no ownership, but oh well, that's life.
You are more than welcome to stay here and invite people over. I've revised all the sign up plugins and they are all working. My intention was to pay for a license for the new version of xenforo which has a lot of new stuff and then start building on a new design, similar to this one but with more features down the road. I have the skills to do it because I've been working in the hosting business and design industry for years. But I can't do it if my userbase is 0. I still refuse to close down this forum because it was really hard work for me and also because I'm always true to my word, when I say I do something, I'll do it and I'm not usually a guy that abandon his projects.
My last project was a video games magazine (tecnogaming.com) and it was founded in 2009 and it's still working to this day and thriving.