What makes this suck is that I felt like I was on a good start to joining staff, and now the thread is talking as if outright shutdown may now be in the cards.
I won't blame you if you feel a mandatory subscription is required, though with my absolute zero income, that's not something I myself would be able to sustain on my end.
If there's anything I have to add, for some form of "better than nothing" option, there should be one of the dev's local builds available as some kind of museum, with god mode powers and all, for players to go through in single-player isolation. And it'd need to be packaged in such a way that even a noob like myself can run it on his Windows OS (none of the Linux nuts-and-bolts). It wouldn't be the definitive experience, but at least it'd be preserved in some form, and keeping a multi-gig sized package file on some cloud like Google Drive is a lot more cost effective than overhead for humongous and complex servers for the full MMO experience. If this pitch doesn't fly, again, I don't blame you, I'm only trying to help.
Semper Bellum!
P.S. this place does have a Discord server, and I'm vastly more active there than I am on these forums. I even get to talk to some of the staff there once in a while. I understand you may presume we don't, but the invite is somewhere in this forum...you just need to know where to look (or how to search for it)...