To answer your original question gusher, yes Adele and docr46 are taking a break for now. Hopefully we will see them back soon.

As to your last post I'm not sure I understand you. A 1 month platinum subscription is currently $17.99 / month which reduces if a longer subscription is bought.
There are a multitude of single part videos here which can be played immediately after download. The split files do require an additional step, in the joining process. I use HJsplit which was a tiny download, and does not require any installation. After that simple process they can be viewed as normal. So the mention of several programs being necessary to view videos simply is not correct.
I did upgrade my media player from the default one on my computer but that was as much a consequence of playing videos obtained from elsewhere as playing videos from FF.
Anyone struggling to play videos, will always find help here from the community, it is after all a forum for members to interact, not simply a file sharing/hosting service.