Just thought I would point out to people who are acting like there are no staff left, we still have 17 active mods, supervisors and admins. Plus nine mag staff who also have moderating powers in the news sections. Yeah not all of those people are active all the time, but the staff count here is still quite massive and its not like we are running on a skeleton crew.
People leave, it happens. Opium was a staff member for eight years, Ace for a similar length of time, that's longer than what most forums survive. So really its not like we are experiencing some sort of mass exodus of staff. At some point people just have to move on and pass the torch on to others, of course its a sad thing when that happens but its just the way things go anywhere, not just on a forum.