well, you know i'm an expert on this topic from first hand experience mahahaha
the option of clicking on the lounge is completely removed. threads don't show up in recent feeds or new posts either. As previously mentioned there was no notification of this, it just vanished overnight
however, you can do everything else on the site including pm, so if we really really wanted to know, we could just pm our polish friend.
the only say you see the lounge is by logging off and who wants to lurk the lounge and not participate in it?