Hi Casey, hope your PhD thesis is going well - all the very best to you.
Yes it is saddening how things happened with Coffee Times. Something that could have been easily resolved has been destroyed. None of had an inkling that the publication would close. Well, it is what it is, because Winston has not bothered to keep in touch with any of us after that day. He continues to write on Substack.
In the meantime, in the spirit of supporting one another, Gerald Sturgill and a couple of us have started a publication called The Community Building Movement - https://medium.com/the-community-building-movement - do drop by when you can.