...it is maddening when glitches occur!
It wouldn't be so bad if it were a short-term, recoverable problem, a time-consuming, irritating nuisance.
But if this is a permanent loss... In the longer term that will be a much worse loss, especially as under Dan's moderatorship the Thorn Forum has become a reference source on so many things of interest to touring, commuting and utility cyclists. For instance, choosing subjects at random, not ranking them for importance, it is the best anglophone source on the Rohloff, on the Highlands and Islands, on transmission ratios, on wide tyres, on inflation regimes, on Chaingliders, on quality chains, on touring and daily luggage, on camping stoves, etc, etc, a seemingly infinite number of subjects both common and esoteric whose importance one doesn't notice when just reading the forum day by day, but the absence of which will hurt when one starts looking for just that particular bit of know-how.
