>>21443068They'll never let it totally die. Anyways as the viewership drops so do the hosting costs, and surely at this point they're totally integrate to AWS backend infrastructure if they weren't before. They'll just smoothly scale down.
They do still have 1000 employees supposedly. Not as extravagant as twitter was, and video streaming is much harder technically than a site like twitter. Still one wonders: outside the core dev teams just wtf are the rest doing all day.