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Looking forward to it.

Yes, the forum is quite dead - it is even driving me crazy, despite myself being a non-poster. But I read quite a bit on the forum - here are my hypotheses for the deadness:

Brushless has become mainstream - No more cruddy BK controllers (which were better than Schulze tenfold btw) and no more Feigo. Castle/Traxxas has taken the "third party"-ness out of Brushless. Nitro is dead, brushless is mainstream and where everyone is at. RC-Monster thrived when electric RC was for freaks and weirdos like myself. Now RC-Monster is sorta a third party - they were unique because they found the best stuff from around the world to help prevent us from blowing up our BL every weekend. Nowadays, one purchase of a BL E-Revo out of the box is pretty much better than any custom BL setup.

Second reason is, in my opinion, the whole slipperential thing probably killed the hobby for RC Monster Mike. He used to keep this place hopping, now members can't even join without waiting 2 months for an admin to let them in. I don't even know if Mike is still interested in the hobby. I can understand though, considering how much work went into the slipperential and how it was ripped off. The main evidence of this hypothesis of mine is that "**ATTENTION ALL BUYERS**" thing on the front page of the website has been there for years now. Clearly there has been no bigger news to hit RCM since then.