It also said I should be fluent in French a year and a half from now, I think that's optimistic though

I made a firefox extension you can use to back up your log: addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/firefo...

A forum shouldn't need the owner to intervene so often. Even custom websites don't have these issues. Only the frontend of languageforum.xyz is custom. The backend is on Supabase which has proven to be very reliable.
Also the frontend is open-source, contributors can be added so it isn't just me.

I'm using Supabase for the backend, and Dioxus for the frontend

If it goes back online, I suggest trying to make a backup of your language log if you have one.
I'd like to try making an effort to try to migrate language logs to languageforum.xyz so that they aren't lost forever.

It's clear they're running some really old backend software. I remember hesitating before I made my account, since old software often has security flaws and can be vulnerable to attacks and risk leaking user information/passwords.
Whats going on now is probably for the best, better than data breach.

I was very surprised by how much he claims to be paying to keep the site online. I can't check again now since its down again but I think he said $600 a MONTH!?
I should be able to run languageforum.xyz on $26 a month. That's assuming less than 100,000 active monthly users.

Will do!

Its frustrating for me too, because that forum is a part of my language learning strategy, to hold myself accountable my making my goals public in a language log.

I'll be making my own forum on languageforum.xyz
There won't be any gateway errors on my forum.