I agree with Elysium it seems to me too that the owner of the site has been selling domain names over a period of years with inflated traffic numbers because of member numbers as well as visitor numbers.

This is the comment I left there:
Is it possible he sold the domain name for a lot of money and sold it with the inflated traffic? I think that a serial entrepreneur would be more interested in building a business possibility rather than be a philanthropic mental health valiant who pulls the rug out from under those who basically made the site...the members, and they were left feeling vulnerable and without their support base...that is the real issue.