As the old Mark Twain saying goes "this site's demise has been greatly exaggerated."
I believe it was nothing but a big fat lie, one blowhard dissenter found the annual renewal date of this site for the payment to the hosting company and twisted it as the Mayan doomsday date of this site, his and a few others wishful thinking.
The owner of this site has paid his hosting site for the last dozen years it has been up on the internet and I have seen no evidence that he is not going to pay it again this year.
As for the chance the site may someday shutdown sure it can happen and if it does so be it, I got along just fine before joining and will continue to do so if the site is here or not here.
Personally right now I think this site's content is the best it has ever been.
Al