>>29786219It's not currently being translated into lore, but you're free to write loreposts about it I suppose. Then again, some threads which are active in /vtwbg/ are actually basically dead themselves, so thread activity no longer directly correlates with the world there, which doesn't mean that wealthy merchants couldn't have a lingering sense of nostalgia for the simpler, older times, when their now-gone friends were around.
Returns Report also shows a stable activity of ~200 people in the game, so even though the thread got slower, the Stock Exchange there isn't dying, just the old guard of traders. 