Most of the Diners with Doomsteads no longer participate.  Not sure why that is.  I think most of them still  have them, particularly the ones who live on them full time and have made it a lifestyle choice.  Not sure about those who lead typical urban or suburban lifestyles but maintain an off grid Doomstead as a retreat for when SHTF Day arrives.  Perhaps they have become tired of or disinterested in sharing their ideas and plans.  Also, there's always a decent amount of negative feedback from the Denier faction who consider the whole idea of maintaining, or even worse living on a Doomstead to be foolish.  You can extend that to prepping in general, being repeatedly told how you are wasting your time, there's no way to really prep for it.  Or it's a waste of time because it's not going to happen in your llfetime, because everyone who predicted it was going to happen by now obviously has been proved wrong.

For the long term, commited Doomsteaders, there's a lot of Know-it-All that makes it kind of boring to go over all the ideas and methods they are using or building.  The permaculture methods, the 12V electric systems, the composting toilets, wealth preservation attempts with Gold or Crypto, Gunz & Ammo, location choices etc, etc, etc.  Those who consider it worthwhile do it, those who don't, don't and neither can ever convince the other to change.

The only thing left on the discussion front are the Newbies who are only just becoming aware of the real depth of the problems our society has and how intractable they really are.  Committed Doomsteaders want to encourage the newbies to prep up, deniers want to convince them not to waste their time and energy or change their lifestyle to try and prepare since all the predictions of collapse have been wrong.

Here on the Diner in its current incarnation there aren't any real newbies participating, and all the Diners who are chatting fall into one of the other 2 categories.  As a consequence, there's not a whole lot of discussion going on about Doomsteading.

RE