Render is a a lot cheaper than Vercel, and the forum has quite a lot of cron jobs that are more annoying to setup using a serverless architecture. We also had a good experience using Render when we built Forethought's new website last year. We're still using Vercel for all of our other sites though (at least, for now).

Thanks for letting us know - should be fixed now!

Sorry again about that ! Glad it's working now!

The problem's on our side - sorry about that! It should be fixed now but please let us know if you run into any more issues - the bug report was very helpful. Thanks!

Are you sure you were looking at the right "here, here and here"? I just checked the raw post HTML in the forum database and there's no links in that sentence: 

<p>In the current stage of LLMs, one may reasonably have short timelines for AGI coming in the next 3-5 years, as given here. Here, here, here, and here. It might...</p>

Not a bug - it's from Where are you donating this year, and why? which is grandfathered into an old experimental voting system (and it's the only post with this voting system - there are a couple of others with different experimental systems).