Well I WAS with my somewhat 'dubious' status on the litecointalk site ABLE to find scypt equipment. Can't find sh*t on bitcointalk.
So it was a more specific type and smaller community to LTC thus able to get more info on tech stuff and sales etc. From people I at least had interacted with outside of sales of stuff.
Then again the admin account (the top account you can have on the site) one of 4 of such ..Carnth was hacked and I was duped by such
(hey I mean really the #2 guy's account is hacked on litecointalk....wtf....sheesh..I can't even beat myself up on the 110 ltc loss..its like the asic gods conspired to screw me!)
So hell ..litecointalk was run by LTC/BTC whales maybe it is just not worth the effort to revive it anymore. They never seemed to be on for months at a time anyway.
so anyway ...probably not worth the time for the original folk (now that are ltc and btc whales) to bother is my guess
that and the fact imho the hacker ..having god powers over EVERYTHING when found out ..probably flushed the site ....
thus what to bring back up...with such security issues...what to use for forum software etc ...a big pain in the ass...
so anyway my bet is its likely down for good at this point in time....simply because we hear nothing from anyone that it IS being worked on...thus imho they don't care
enough to post problems with the 'revival' there is probably not gonna be one