Firebolt

I just found that Virtual Teen Forums closed down on 1st July, having been running since 2004. I was surprised, because I had been reading some threads just last month and there was no inkling of an impending end. I even checked on the Wayback Machine and could only find this thread where some users guessed that money was running out. Did anybody here use it? Or its sister forum Gov Teen, which shut down long ago?