As maintenance of support.typo3.org slackened and the Jive software that provided the connection to the mailinglists could not be used anymore, another solution had to be found. The need for support.typo3.org is there because users are not familiar with the use of mailinglists or prefer forum style communications. From the start of the mailinglists there have been questions now and again whether or not TYPO3 should not have a forum.
The Content Rendering Group (CRG) appears to be less active lately; at least that's what Marc Wöhlken (author of Advanced HTML Cleaner ? qcom_htmlcleaner) believed. The last article in the CRG's TYPO3.org page was posted several months ago, so it's understandable that people have this impression. Marc's email reminded me to give all you good folks an update of what is going on... and things are going on!