I've poked around on the tascamforums.co website and I'm pretty much of the opinion that even though the forum is in a functional state, the lights are on but no one is home. Here is what I suspect that website is. Shortly after the website went down last year, I made contact with as many of the mod squad members that I had private email addresses for. I personally had written so much stuff in the forums that I moderated, and knew of so many other good essays by others that I wanted to find out if the forum database was intact and if I could do something to save it for future and existing Tascam users. I was told by Terry that Bruce's family had indeed protected the database and that it was being temporarily stored somewhere. No one was saying where though.
I suspect that what has happened is that someone accidentally stumbled on the secret storage site and just started spreading the word. There is a private sub forum that only the moderators have access to. We used this when Bruce was still with us to discuss moderation issues. I signed in and asked if the forum was back up. If someone was actually minding the store, he or she would have been alerted of .the post. So far, no answer.
There is still a wealth of information archived over there but it would be unwise to view it as an active forum I think. If anyone knows differently please chime in.