It certainly is a shame. This used to be a very busy forum around 15+ years ago, full of very active, informative and friendly members, and with regular meet-ups either at shows, or smaller local get-togethers.
It all went downhill badly when site ownership fell into the hands of a longstanding member who was a rather heavy handed moderator with the result that a small band of disillusioned members went off and set up a ZR forum of their own. There was another long standing and very active member who went off to start a more general car related forum when his wife swapped her Mynheer kitted ZR (which was the main reason for both of them being on theMGZR) for a Mitsubishi Evo and their car interests gravitated away from MG Rover. A number of the regulars who had also swapped their ZRs for something else followed them, and the forum activity steadily decreased from then on.
However, it must say something about theMGZR that it is still here, and its valuable reference resource still remains available to existing and new ZR enthusiasts, whilst both the 'ZRunleashed' and 'TheFuelRooms' forums have long since withered and vanished.
Whether this forum will continue is anyones guess, but I would imagine whilst it still gets enough traffic to generate sufficient views to keep VerticalScopes' advertisers happy to keep paying enough to outweigh the cost of running and hosting it, I would think it may stay a while even with the low volume of actual posts that are generated.