I don't know if i can link this but i read on vBulletin's forum that they are cutting off almost the entire staff and that the Organization is on ice. Thin ice. I'll quote this from the thread of the vBulletin forum:
I'll link to the page if asked to by a staff-member i guess.
The support group is pretty much quitting and so are almost all the admins there. Will this affect NB as it runs on vBulletin?I'm afraid I do not know what the future holds for vbulletin.org, or who from IB will be running it.
However, it has become clear it is no longer "our" site to run - as has previously been done for the last 15+ years.
I'll link to the page if asked to by a staff-member i guess.